Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more than here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Notation: You can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

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

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You lot can 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:

[Aqueduct Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s. whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not exist appropriate for all audiences.

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

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

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

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

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'due south discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull 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 can be embedded on a dissimilar website. Point if you'd like to ship 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 every bit education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can encounter how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you tin can apply the advertizement suitability folio to charge per unit your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than nearly Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to accomplish a broader audience.
End 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 interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who y'all want to see your video. Y'all can besides share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull to brand your video public, you tin can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, choose this pick and select the date yous desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You can besides set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment catamenia. Your video is prepare to "private" for the penalisation flow duration, and y'all have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Larn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch 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 y'all can upload per day

At that place's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each twenty-four hour period. To increment your daily limit, run into this article.

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, effort converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, merely you lot can attempt other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When y'all publish a video, the video is fabricated available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When y'all upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time mode 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 volition fit the screen.

Figure out why your video'south upload date and publish appointment are dissimilar

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

These ii dates can be dissimilar if y'all uploaded your video equally individual or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, can accept more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more than most video processing afterward upload.

Related links

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

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