Upload videos

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

Annotation: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

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

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You lot 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 image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell united states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not exist advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser 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 can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to sentry. You tin can create your ain video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is usually misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording appointment 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 be embedded on a different website. Indicate if yous'd like 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 as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

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

Video elements

Add cards and finish screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

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 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 desire to see your video. You tin can as well share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'southward privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can likewise set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the appointment you want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. You can also fix your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation period. Your video is ready to "private" for the penalization period duration, and y'all accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more nearly Community Guidelines strike basics.

Sentry 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 most uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per twenty-four hours

There'south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hours. To increase your daily limit, run into this commodity.

Upload audio files

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

To add together your content to YouTube, endeavor converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to exercise this, just you can try other video editing software.

Larn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous 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 all-time way to display the content. For the all-time 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 different

  • Upload engagement: The date you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent 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 Time (PST).

These ii dates can exist dissimilar if you uploaded your video every bit individual or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have 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, higher resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more almost video processing later on upload.

Related links

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

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