Upload videos

You lot tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Employ the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Notation: This characteristic may not exist bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more than hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Notation: Y'all can upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before yous finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: You tin click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The title of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW More than to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

You tin add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You tin can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video'southward discovery.
Language and explanation certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin be embedded on a different website. Bespeak if y'all'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 every bit teaching or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can apply the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Yous can besides share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, you tin can likewise fix your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, cull this option and select the appointment you want your video to be published. Your video will exist private until that engagement. You tin can likewise set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is gear up to "private" for the penalty period elapsing, and you lot have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you lot tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel tin can upload each solar day. To increment your daily limit, meet this commodity.

Upload audio files

Y'all can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, but you tin can effort other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When y'all publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time way to display 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 engagement and publish appointment are different

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

These 2 dates tin can be unlike if you lot uploaded your video every bit individual or unlisted, and made it public later on.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This process helps yous complete the upload process faster. When the upload period is complete, your video volition be available to stream in low resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can accept more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Learn more virtually video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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