Upload videos

You tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Employ the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: 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 top-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

Note: Yous can upload up to xv videos at a fourth dimension. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If yous close the upload experience before you terminate choosing your settings, your video will be saved equally a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Championship The championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Show MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

Y'all can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to lookout. You lot can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatsoever video chapters entered will 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 normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video'south discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement 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. Point if yous'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as educational activity or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can encounter how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and stop screens to bear witness 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 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 folio, choose when yous want your video to publish and who you want to run across your video. Yous tin can also share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'southward privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can too set your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, cull this option and select the date y'all want your video to exist published. Your video volition be private until that date. You can as well set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is set up to "private" for the punishment period duration, and y'all have to reschedule it when the freeze menstruum ends. Acquire more nearly Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch 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 virtually uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per solar day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

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

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

Acquire the departure between "upload" and "publish"

When y'all upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When yous publish a video, the video is made bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time way to display the content. For the best feel, 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'southward upload date and publish appointment are dissimilar

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

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

Empathise video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, it will initially be candy in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process 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, tin take 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 be available on your video. Learn more about video processing afterward upload.

Related links

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

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