Upload videos

Y'all tin 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 non exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: You tin can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be 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 volition be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Notation: Yous 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 following format:

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell usa whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select Evidence MORE to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

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

Any video chapters entered will override auto generated video capacity.

Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.

Linguistic communication and explanation certification Cull the original video language and explanation 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 exist embedded on a dissimilar website. Betoken if you lot'd like to ship notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Let others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as instruction or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you lot can use the ad suitability folio to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than almost Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

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

Checks

Visibility

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

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you'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.

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, yous can besides gear up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date you lot want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. You can too set your video as a Premiere.

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

Annotation: 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 elapsing, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze menstruum ends. Learn more than well-nigh 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

There'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each solar day. To increase your daily limit, run across this commodity.

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a listing of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to practise this, but y'all tin try other video editing software.

Learn the departure between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube volition effigy out the best way to display the content. For the best feel, don't add blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, information technology will initially be processed in low resolution. This procedure helps you lot complete the upload process faster. When the upload catamenia is complete, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin can take more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more than most video processing afterward upload.

Related links

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

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