Upload videos

You tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply the instructions below 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 than here.

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 that you'd like to upload.

Annotation: You tin can upload upwards to xv videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If yous close the upload experience before you've finished choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You lot can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Channel name]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that viewers volition run into before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the US Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), yous're required to tell us whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details folio, select SHOW More than to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

Y'all tin add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to watch. You lot tin create your own video chapters or apply the automatically generated chapters by ticking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' tick box.

Any video capacity entered will override car-generated video chapters.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags tin exist useful if the content of your video is usually misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and explanation certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording engagement and location Enter the date on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to ship notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin run into how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Advertizement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you lot can use the advert suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetisation decisions faster and more accurately. Learn more nearly self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end 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 visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an cease screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to be published and who you lot want to meet your video. You can also share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is ready to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, individual or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this pick and select Private, Unlisted or Public as your video's privacy setting. If y'all cull to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date that you want your video to exist published. Your video will exist private until that appointment. You can also set your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is ready to 'individual' for the penalty period duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze catamenia ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Lookout how to upload videos

Take a expect at the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more about uploading videos

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

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

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you tin can try other video editing software.

Larn 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 lookout man.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will piece of work out the best fashion to display the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, information technology will fit the screen.

Sympathise why your video's upload appointment and publish date are dissimilar

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

These ii dates tin be different if you uploaded your video equally private or unlisted and made information technology public later.

Sympathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. Once the upload flow is complete, your video volition be available to stream in low resolution on a broad diversity of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more fourth dimension to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Acquire more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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