Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few piece of cake steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This feature may non 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 top-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you lot'd like to upload.

Notation: Y'all tin can upload up 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 you terminate choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You 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 below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children'south 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 SHOW More than to cull your avant-garde settings.

Paid promotion Allow viewers and YouTube know that your video has a paid promotion.
Automated chapters

Y'all tin can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Yous can create your ain video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automated capacity (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered volition override machine generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video'southward discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the appointment 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. Indicate if y'all'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 run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can use the advertizing suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end 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 audition.
End screen Add visual elements to the terminate 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 can also share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can change 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 every bit your video'southward privacy setting. If you choose to brand your video public, you can also fix your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this choice and select the engagement you want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. You can as well fix your video as a Premiere.

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

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

Scout 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

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each solar day. To increase your daily limit, run across this article.

Upload sound files

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

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

Larn 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 bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time way to brandish the content. For the all-time 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.

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

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The appointment 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 y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made information technology public afterward.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology will initially exist processed in depression resolution. This process helps you complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload menstruation is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in depression resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, tin take more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more nearly video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Become an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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