Upload videos

You tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply 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. Learn more hither.

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 you'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload experience before yous finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved equally a draft on your Content folio.

Details

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

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

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

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 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 brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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

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

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

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

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video'south discovery.
Language and caption 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 can 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 audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin use the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add together 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 exist 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, cull when you lot want your video to publish and who yous desire to see your video. Y'all can also 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 fix to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video'southward privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can also ready your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, choose this option and select the engagement you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You can likewise fix your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty menstruation duration, and you accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more near 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

Acquire more about uploading videos

How many videos y'all tin upload per mean solar day

At that place'south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload sound files

Y'all tin't upload sound files to YouTube. Encounter a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by calculation an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, only you can try other video editing software.

Acquire the divergence between "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 you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video'south upload engagement and publish date are dissimilar

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

These two dates can be different if you lot uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps you lot complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be bachelor on your video. Larn more than virtually 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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