Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may non be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than 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 you'd similar to upload.

Note: You tin can upload upwards to 15 videos at a time. Be certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you lot close the upload experience before you lot terminate choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You 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, employ the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will meet before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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

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

You lot tin add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Y'all tin create your ain video chapters 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 chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and explanation 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 be embedded on a dissimilar 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 didactics or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can utilize the advert suitability page to charge per unit your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more virtually Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to bear witness your audition related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when yous desire your video to publish and who you lot desire to see your video. You tin can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is ready to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull 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 yous want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. Y'all can besides set your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalization period. Your video is gear up to "individual" for the penalty menstruum duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more than about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Picket 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 than almost uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

In that location'south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

Y'all tin'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, attempt converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can try other video editing software.

Learn the divergence betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to display the content. For the best feel, don't add blackness 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 date and publish date are different

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

These two dates tin can be different if yous uploaded your video equally private or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

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

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

Related links

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

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