Upload videos

Y'all 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 hither.

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: You tin upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you lot shut the upload experience earlier yous finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Notation: 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, employ the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome 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), y'all're required to tell the states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Historic period-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Testify More than to cull your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatsoever video chapters entered will override car generated video chapters.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin exist useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video'south discovery.
Language and explanation 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 unlike website. Bespeak if you lot'd similar to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Let others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as teaching or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can meet how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the advertisement suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and finish screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to action.

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Stop screen Add together visual elements to the terminate 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, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who y'all want to come across your video. You can also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'south privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, yous can as well set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this pick and select the appointment y'all desire your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. Y'all can also set your video equally a Premiere.

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

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation catamenia. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more almost Community Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout man 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 nigh uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hour period

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, come across this article.

Upload audio files

You 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, endeavour converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you lot can try 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 available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will 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, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video's upload appointment and publish date are unlike

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, it volition initially exist 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 multifariousness of devices.

College resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case loftier-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Larn more about video processing afterwards upload.

Related links

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

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