Upload videos

You 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 feature may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Notation: You tin upload upward to xv 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 cease choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

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

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

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will meet before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to ane of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s. 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 SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatever video chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin be embedded on a dissimilar website. Indicate if you lot'd like to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Let others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as pedagogy or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can get out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can meet how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you tin use the ad suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more almost Cocky-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 finish of your video. Your video must exist 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 want to see your video. You lot can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is ready to public. Anybody can alter this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video at present, cull this pick and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'due south privacy setting. If you choose to brand your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, cull this option and select the engagement y'all desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. Yous tin likewise fix your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand certain they follow YouTube policies, then click SAVE.

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalization period. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty period elapsing, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more almost Community Guidelines strike basics.

Scout 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

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There'due south a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload sound files

You lot can't upload audio files to YouTube. Encounter a listing 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 past adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to practice this, but you tin effort other video editing software.

Learn 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 fabricated available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time mode 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, foursquare, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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

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

These two dates can be different if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and made it public later.

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 variety of devices.

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

Related links

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

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