Upload videos

You can 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.

Note: This characteristic may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more 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 yous'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload feel before yous finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a typhoon on your Content folio.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Annotation: You tin 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 beneath your video. For video attributions, utilize the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell united states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Prove More to choose your advanced settings.

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

Y'all can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to watch. You tin can create your own video capacity or utilise the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to assistance right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin exist embedded on a dissimilar website. Point 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 equally education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can utilize the advertizing suitability folio 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 evidence your audition related videos, websites, and calls to activeness.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
End screen Add visual elements to the cease 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 folio, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who you want to run across your video. You tin can as well share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you lot can also prepare your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this choice and select the date you desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You can also set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty catamenia duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Acquire more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more than near uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hours

At that place'due south a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each mean solar day. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

Y'all tin can't upload audio files to YouTube. See 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 adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you lot tin can try other video editing software.

Larn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous publish a video, the video is fabricated available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

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

Figure out why your video's upload date and publish appointment are dissimilar

  • Upload appointment: The date you uploaded your video. Shows side by side to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish appointment: The appointment your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These ii dates can be different if yous uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and fabricated it public afterwards.

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This process helps yous 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, can take more than time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more nigh video processing afterwards upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Become an overview of aqueduct functioning
  • Aqueduct customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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