Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a estimator or from a mobile device.

Annotation: 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 top-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd similar to upload.

Note: You can upload upwardly to 15 videos at a fourth dimension. Exist certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

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

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: Y'all can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The title of your video.
Description

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will run into before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may non exist appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW More to cull your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatever video chapters entered will override car generated video capacity.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video'south discovery.
Language and caption 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 different website. Indicate if you lot'd like to send 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 every bit didactics or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s. brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and stop 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 end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you desire to see your video. You can 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 fix to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, cull this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video'due south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you lot tin can as well set up your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will exist 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 period. Your video is gear up to "private" for the penalty menses elapsing, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze flow ends. Larn more than nearly Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Sentinel how to upload videos

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Acquire more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

At that place's 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. Run into a list of supported file formats that tin can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your sound file to a video file by adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, just you lot can endeavour other video editing software.

Learn the departure betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

When you lot publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to picket.

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time way to display the content. For the best feel, 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.

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

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

These 2 dates can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, information technology will initially exist processed in depression resolution. This procedure helps you lot 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 every bit 4K or 1080p, can take more than time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions volition be available on your video. Larn more than about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Go an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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