Upload videos

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

Annotation: This characteristic may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than 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 y'all'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload feel before you finish choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved as a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: You tin 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:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not exist 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 together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to lookout man. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered will override automobile generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation 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. Betoken if you lot'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 Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can run into how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertising suitability folio to charge per unit 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 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 reach a broader audience.
Finish screen Add together visual elements to the terminate of your video. Your video must exist 25 seconds or longer to add together an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Yous tin can as well share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If yous choose to make your video public, you can also set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this selection and select the engagement you want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You can besides gear up your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make 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 penalisation period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty menstruum duration, and you lot have to reschedule information technology when the freeze menstruum ends. Acquire more nigh Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch 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

Learn more near uploading videos

How many videos y'all can upload per day

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

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. Come across a listing 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 calculation an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to exercise this, simply you can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference 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 bachelor for anyone to lookout man.

Upload vertical videos

When y'all upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

  • Upload date: The engagement you uploaded your video. Shows next to your individual or unlisted video on your Content folio.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These ii dates can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public after.

Understand video quality processing

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

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

Related links

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

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