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 feature may not exist bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more 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 like to upload.

Notation: You can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Exist certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before y'all terminate choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: Y'all can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The paradigm viewers volition see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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

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

You tin add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Y'all tin can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered volition override auto generated video chapters.

Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'due south discovery.

Language and explanation certification Cull the original video language 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 can be embedded on a different 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 as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all tin can 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 well-nigh 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 achieve a broader audience.
Terminate screen Add visual elements to the cease of your video. Your video must be 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 desire your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You lot can likewise share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If y'all're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video at present, cull this selection and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you lot cull to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date yous want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. Y'all can too set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set up to "private" for the penalisation menstruum elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more virtually Customs Guidelines strike nuts.

Lookout man how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Acquire more than near uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

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

Upload sound files

You can't upload audio 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 image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, merely you can try other video editing software.

Learn the divergence between "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous 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 mode to display the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness 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 date are unlike

  • Upload date: The engagement y'all 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 Time (PST).

These two dates can be unlike if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made information technology public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps y'all complete the upload process faster. When the upload menstruation is complete, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

College resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin have more than fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more well-nigh 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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