Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more 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 y'all'd like to upload.

Note: Y'all can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you shut the upload experience earlier yous finish choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

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

Championship The title of your video. This field is required.
Description

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you'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 bottom of the Details page, select SHOW More than to cull your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatsoever video capacity entered will override motorcar generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assist correct search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is usually misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video'south discovery.
Language and explanation 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 tin exist embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'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 Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use 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 about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, cull when you want your video to publish and who you lot want to run into your video. You tin also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'southward privacy setting. If you cull to brand your video public, y'all tin can also set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video after, cull this option and select the date you desire your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You lot tin too set your video every bit a Premiere.

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

Annotation: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalization menses. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more than about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Lookout 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

Larn more than almost uploading videos

How many videos yous can upload per 24-hour interval

There'due south a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each mean solar day. To increment your daily limit, run into this article.

Upload audio files

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

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

Learn the divergence betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, 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'due south upload date and publish date are dissimilar

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent 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 e'er in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These ii dates tin exist different if you uploaded your video equally private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such every bit 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. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Acquire more about video processing afterwards upload.

Related links

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

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