Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

​If you close the upload feel earlier you 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, use the post-obit 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's Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s. whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Testify More than to choose your advanced settings.

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

You tin can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to scout. You tin can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to aid right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's 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 be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you lot'd like to send 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 pedagogy or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertising suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than near 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 accomplish a broader audience.
End screen Add visual elements to the stop of your video. Your video must exist 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, cull when you desire your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You lot tin also 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 up to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public equally your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you tin can as well ready your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this pick and select the appointment yous want your video to be published. Your video will exist individual until that appointment. You tin can likewise set your video as 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 flow. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty catamenia duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more than 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

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each solar day. To increment your daily limit, run into this article.

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, endeavor converting your audio file to a video file by calculation an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, merely you tin can attempt other video editing software.

Acquire the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best mode to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add black 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'southward upload date and publish engagement are different

  • Upload date: The engagement y'all uploaded your video. Shows next to your individual or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish appointment: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your alive video and is always in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

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

Empathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload catamenia is complete, your video will be bachelor 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 exist missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more almost video processing subsequently upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel functioning
  • Aqueduct customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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