Upload videos

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

Notation: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than hither.

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'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload experience before y'all finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: Y'all can click REUSE DETAILS to copy 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, utilize the following format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The prototype viewers will meet before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s. 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 to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

You can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Yous can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (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 ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'south discovery.

Language and explanation certification Choose the original video linguistic communication 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 tin be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to send 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 one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can employ the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and cease screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, cull when yous want your video to publish and who yous want to run into your video. You tin likewise share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'due south privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, y'all can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the engagement yous want your video to be published. Your video will exist private until that date. Yous can too fix your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure 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 "private" for the penalty flow duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze menstruum ends. Learn more than virtually Community Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout 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

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos yous can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your sound file to a video file by adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can try other video editing software.

Learn the deviation 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 picket.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to brandish the content. For the all-time experience, don't add together 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's upload appointment and publish appointment are unlike

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

These ii dates tin be different if you 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 you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will exist available to stream in low resolution, on a broad 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 high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Acquire more than near video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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