Upload videos

You tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

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

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

​If yous close the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved equally 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 beneath 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.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell usa whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not exist appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select SHOW More to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatever video chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance right search mistakes.

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

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you lot can use the advertisement suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states of america make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more almost Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who you want to come across your video. You tin also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If y'all're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set up to public. Everyone tin change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you tin can as well prepare your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the engagement you want your video to be published. Your video will exist private until that date. Yous can also set your video as a Premiere.

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

Annotation: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty catamenia duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze flow ends. Learn more about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

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

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you lot tin can upload per 24-hour interval

At that place's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

Y'all can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, endeavor converting your audio file to a video file by adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to practise this, merely you can endeavor other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

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

Figure out why your video'south upload engagement and publish engagement are different

  • Upload engagement: The date y'all uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish appointment: The engagement your video became public. Shows below your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These two dates tin be different if you uploaded your video equally individual or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist candy in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload period is consummate, your video will exist available to stream in low resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can take more than fourth dimension to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing college resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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