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.

Note: This characteristic may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire 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 like to upload.

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

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

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You lot can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the post-obit format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition come across earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 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 fabricated for kids.
Age 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 video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to lookout. You can create your own video chapters or employ the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Permit automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video's discovery.
Language and caption 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 can be embedded on a unlike website. Indicate if you'd like to ship 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 equally educational activity or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad 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 us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end screens to evidence 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 end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an terminate screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

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

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can modify this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video'south privacy setting. If y'all choose to make your video public, you lot can also gear up your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video subsequently, choose this selection and select the date y'all want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. Yous can also set up your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty period elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Larn 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

Acquire more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per mean solar day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, meet this article.

Upload audio files

You tin can't upload sound 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 sound file to a video file by adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, simply 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 picket.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add black 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 engagement and publish date are different

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows side by side to your private 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 can exist different if yous uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This procedure helps y'all complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will exist bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a wide diversity of devices.

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

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel functioning
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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