Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Utilize the instructions below to upload your videos from a estimator or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This feature may not exist bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

​If you lot shut the upload feel 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.Notation: You can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may non be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

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

Add 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 function in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation 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 can be embedded on a different website. Point if you'd like to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit 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 can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you tin use the advertising suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn 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 attain a broader audience.
Terminate screen Add visual elements to the finish of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an stop screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when yous want your video to publish and who yous want 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 y'all're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone can alter this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this pick and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can likewise fix your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date y'all desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You can also set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, then click SAVE.

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty menstruum duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze catamenia ends. Learn more than about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per solar day

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

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. Run across a list of supported file formats that tin be uploaded to YouTube.

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

Learn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness confined 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 appointment and publish engagement are unlike

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

These two dates can be different if y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Sympathise video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, tin take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more nigh video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Aqueduct customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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