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.

Note: This characteristic may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the top-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file y'all'd like to upload.

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

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

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: Yous tin click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), y'all're required to tell united states whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period 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.
Automatic chapters

You tin can add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Permit automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered volition override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin exist useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'south discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and explanation 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 can be embedded on a different website. Signal if you lot'd similar to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can utilise the ad suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps usa brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more than virtually Self-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end screens to show 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.
Stop 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 see your video. You lot tin also share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is private. If you're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody 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 Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can also set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later on, choose this selection and select the date you desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You can too set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalization menstruum. Your video is set to "private" for the penalisation flow elapsing, and you lot accept to reschedule information technology when the freeze menses ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

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 about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct tin upload each solar day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

Yous can't upload audio files to YouTube. Meet a list of supported file formats that can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, effort converting your sound file to a video file by adding an paradigm. YouTube doesn't take a tool to do this, but y'all can try other video editing software.

Larn the deviation 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 lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to display the content. For the best feel, don't add together 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'due south upload date and publish date are dissimilar

  • Upload date: The date 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 live video and is always in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These two dates can be different if yous uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, information technology volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps you lot complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is consummate, your video will be bachelor to stream in depression resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Larn more than about video processing later on upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Go an overview of channel operation
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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