Upload videos

Y'all 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 calculator or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic may non exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more 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'd like to upload.

Notation: You lot tin can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you shut the upload feel earlier you finish choosing your settings, your video will exist saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, employ the following format:

[Channel Proper noun]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), yous're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Historic period-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Show More to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

Any video capacity entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video'due south discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose 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 be embedded on a unlike website. Indicate if you'd like to transport 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 as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Programme, y'all can use the ad suitability page to charge per unit your videos confronting 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 activeness.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
End screen Add visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add together 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 y'all desire to see your video. Y'all tin can besides share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If y'all're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can modify this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'southward privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this option and select the date you want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that engagement. Yous tin also set your video every bit a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure they follow YouTube policies, and then click Salve.

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is prepare to "individual" for the penalty menses duration, and yous accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about 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 about uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per twenty-four hours

There'southward a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each solar 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 tin can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, endeavor converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to practise this, but y'all can attempt other video editing software.

Larn the difference betwixt "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.

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps y'all complete the upload process faster. When the upload menses is complete, your video will exist available to stream in depression resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have more fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more than about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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