Upload videos

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

Notation: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

​If yous close the upload feel before yous 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 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, apply the post-obit format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition meet before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to i 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. 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 Testify More than to cull your advanced settings.

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

You tin add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to picket. You can create your own video chapters or utilize the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to aid correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the appointment 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. Bespeak if you'd like to transport 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 comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can go out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Program, you 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. Acquire more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add together 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 accomplish a broader audience.
Finish screen Add visual elements to the finish of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add together an terminate screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

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

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is gear up to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this pick and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'south privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, y'all can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this choice and select the appointment you lot want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You can likewise set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation menses. Your video is set to "private" for the punishment catamenia duration, and yous have to reschedule it when the freeze menstruum ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch how to upload videos

Bank check out the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more than about uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per day

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

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past calculation an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, simply you can try other video editing software.

Learn the deviation between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to sentry.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video's upload engagement and publish appointment are different

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

These two dates tin can be different if y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made information technology public afterwards.

Sympathize video quality processing

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

College resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, tin have more 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 will exist available on your video. Learn more most video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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