Upload videos

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

Note: This characteristic may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

​If you shut the upload experience before you end choosing your settings, your video will be saved equally a draft on your Content page.

Details

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

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

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will run into 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), you lot're required to tell united states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

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

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

Yous can add together video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to sentry. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to assist correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and explanation certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and explanation certification.
Recording engagement 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 can exist embedded on a different website. Signal if you'd similar to send 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 every bit education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can meet how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advert suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin use the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more virtually Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You can also share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, cull this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can as well set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, cull this option and select the engagement you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You tin can also prepare your video as a Premiere.

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

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruation. Your video is prepare to "individual" for the penalty period duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more virtually Community Guidelines strike basics.

Scout 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 near uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per twenty-four hour period

At that place's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, only yous can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When y'all 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 figure out the best 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 volition fit the screen.

Figure out why your video'due south upload appointment and publish date are different

  • Upload engagement: The appointment yous uploaded your video. Shows next to your individual or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is always in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates tin exist different if you lot uploaded your video as individual or unlisted, and made it public afterwards.

Sympathize video quality processing

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

College resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, tin take more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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