Upload videos

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

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

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 you lot'd like to upload.

Note: You can upload up to xv videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you shut the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video will exist saved every bit a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Note: You 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, employ the following format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The epitome viewers will come across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA), you're required to tell united states whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age brake Historic period-restrict videos that may non be advisable for all audiences.

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

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

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

Any video capacity entered volition override motorcar generated video chapters.

Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to assist correct search mistakes.

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

Language and caption certification Choose the original video language 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 tin can be embedded on a different website. Point if yous'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as instruction 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

Advertizement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can utilize the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more near Cocky-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who you want to come across your video. Yous can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is individual. 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, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can besides gear up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the appointment yous desire your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that engagement. You tin also fix your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruation. Your video is fix to "private" for the penalization period duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Larn more than nigh Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout man 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

Larn more than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

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

Upload audio files

You tin't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list 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 by adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to practise this, simply you 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 sentry.

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add together 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 next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows below your live video and is always in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These ii dates can be unlike if y'all uploaded your video equally private or unlisted, and fabricated it public after.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide multifariousness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can accept more time 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, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct operation
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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