Upload videos

You lot can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This feature may non be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the elevation-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you lot'd like to upload.

Note: Yous tin can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If y'all shut the upload experience earlier you stop choosing your settings, your video will exist saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You tin can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The title of your video.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details folio, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

Paid promotion Let viewers and YouTube know that your video has a paid promotion.
Automatic chapters

Y'all tin can add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to lookout. You tin can create your own video chapters or apply the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video capacity entered will override machine generated video chapters.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video can exist embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin get out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the advertising suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more near Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to evidence your audience related videos, websites, and calls to action.

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Cease screen Add visual elements to the cease of your video. Your video must exist 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when yous want your video to publish and who you desire to come across your video. You can too share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can as well ready your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video subsequently, choose this choice and select the appointment you want your video to be published. Your video volition exist individual until that date. You tin also set up your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure they follow YouTube policies, then click Relieve.

Annotation: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is prepare to "individual" for the penalty menstruum elapsing, and y'all have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout man how to upload videos

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

At that place's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct tin upload each day. To increment your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

Yous can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When you upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When you publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Figure out why your video's upload date and publish engagement are different

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content folio.
  • Publish date: The engagement your video became public. Shows below your live video and is e'er in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates can be different if you lot uploaded your video as individual or unlisted, and made it public later.

Sympathise video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology will initially exist processed in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload period is consummate, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

College resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can accept more fourth dimension to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Go an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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