Upload videos

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

Annotation: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Notation: Y'all can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before you cease choosing your settings, your video volition be saved every bit a typhoon on your Content folio.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create 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, utilize the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will come across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Historic period 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.
Automated chapters

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

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

Add together descriptive keywords to aid right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is usually misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'southward discovery.
Linguistic communication 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. Point if you'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 every bit instruction or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can get out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advert suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin utilize the advertising suitability page to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to accomplish a broader audience.
Terminate screen Add together visual elements to the cease of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you desire to see your video. You can too share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'due south privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, y'all can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, choose this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You lot tin also set up your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, then click Salvage.

Annotation: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty catamenia. Your video is gear up to "private" for the penalty period elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze menses ends. Learn more near Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch how to upload videos

Bank check out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more than well-nigh uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hours

There'due south a limit to how many videos a aqueduct tin upload each 24-hour interval. To increase your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload sound files

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

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't take a tool to do this, only you tin endeavour other video editing software.

Learn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is fabricated available for anyone to scout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best fashion to brandish 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's upload engagement and publish appointment are different

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload period is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 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 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
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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