Upload videos

You lot can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Utilize the instructions below to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

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

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.

Note: You lot tin upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Be certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before yous finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved equally 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 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 Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add 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 us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Historic period brake Age-restrict videos that may non exist appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select SHOW MORE to cull your advanced settings.

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You lot can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add together descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'south 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 exist embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'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 teaching or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin use the ad suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps usa brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end 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.
Stop screen Add visual elements to the finish of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who y'all want to meet your video. You can too share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you tin can as well prepare your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, choose this option and select the appointment you want your video to exist published. Your video volition be individual until that engagement. You can also set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure they follow YouTube policies, and so click Save.

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is fix to "individual" for the penalty menstruation duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Lookout 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 about uploading videos

How many videos y'all can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

Yous can't upload audio files to YouTube. Come across 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 by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but yous can endeavor 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 bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to brandish the content. For the all-time experience, don't add together black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video'due south upload date and publish engagement are different

  • Upload date: The engagement yous uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content folio.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows below your alive video and is always in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Sympathise video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology 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 exist available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can take more than fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Become an overview of channel operation
  • Aqueduct customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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