Upload videos

You lot tin 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.

Note: 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 that you'd like to upload.

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

​If you shut the upload experience before you lot've finished choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: Y'all tin click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Channel proper noun]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that viewers will meet before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to ane of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the The states Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are Fabricated for Kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may non 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.
Automated chapters

You tin can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to scout. You tin create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by ticking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

Whatsoever video chapters entered will override auto-generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is usually misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the date on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video tin can be embedded on a unlike website. Indicate if you'd similar to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such equally education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin can go out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Advert suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s.a. make monetisation decisions faster and more than accurately. Learn more about self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and finish screens to show your audience related videos, websites and calls to action.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Cease 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 together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to be published and who you desire to come across your video. You tin can besides share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can modify this setting to make their video public, private or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can besides set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date that y'all want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. Yous can also fix your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure that they follow YouTube policies, and so click SAVE.

Note: If your business relationship has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruum. Your video is set to 'private' for the penalty flow duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze menses ends. Learn more virtually Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Scout how to upload videos

Take a look at 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 y'all tin upload per solar day

In that location'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

Yous can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, try converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, but y'all can try other video editing software.

Learn the departure between 'upload' and 'publish'

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube will piece of work out the best mode to display the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, information technology will fit the screen.

Understand why your video'south upload engagement and publish engagement are different

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

These two dates can be different if yous uploaded your video as private or unlisted and made it public afterwards.

Empathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload procedure faster. Once the upload flow is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in depression resolution on a broad multifariousness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more than 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, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more than about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel operation
  • Channel customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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