Upload videos

You lot can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Notation: 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 pinnacle-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file y'all'd like to upload.

Note: You can upload up to fifteen 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 finish choosing your settings, your video will exist saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Annotation: 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, use the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will encounter 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 us whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

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

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You can create your ain video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Cull the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording engagement 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. Indicate if you lot'd like to ship 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 Cull whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertisement suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertisement suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps united states of america make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more virtually Cocky-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you desire your video to publish and who yous want to see your video. Yous tin also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'due south privacy setting. If yous cull to make your video public, you can likewise fix your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the engagement yous want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You can also set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruum. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalization menses duration, and y'all have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more virtually 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

Acquire more about uploading videos

How many videos y'all tin upload per twenty-four hour period

In that location'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see 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 calculation an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, just you tin try other video editing software.

Learn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time 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 will fit the screen.

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

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

These two dates tin exist different if you uploaded your video equally individual or unlisted, and fabricated it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially be 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 fourth dimension to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Acquire more nearly video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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