Upload videos

Yous can upload videos to YouTube in a few piece of cake 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. Acquire more 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 that you'd similar to upload.

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

​If you close the upload feel earlier you've finished choosing your settings, your video will be 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 championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

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

[Channel name]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that viewers will encounter earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to ane of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the US Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Prove MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to watch. You tin create your own video chapters or employ the automatically generated chapters by ticking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

Any video chapters entered volition override car-generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to aid 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.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the date on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video tin can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if y'all'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such every bit education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can get out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Ad suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Programme, yous can use the advert suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa brand monetisation decisions faster and more than accurately. Learn more about self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audition related videos, websites and calls to activeness.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you want your video to exist published and who you want to see your video. You tin can as well share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Everyone tin change this setting to brand their video public, private or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, cull this option and select Individual, Unlisted or Public equally your video'south privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date that you want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. You can also ready your video every bit a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is ready to 'private' for the penalty period elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Acquire more nigh Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Sentry how to upload videos

Take a expect at the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hour period

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

Upload sound files

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

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to do this, merely y'all can attempt other video editing software.

Acquire the difference between 'upload' and 'publish'

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

When yous publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will work out the all-time fashion to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, it will fit the screen.

Sympathize why your video'southward upload date and publish appointment are different

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

These ii dates can exist unlike if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted and made it public later.

Sympathize video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps y'all complete the upload process faster. Once the upload flow is consummate, your video will be bachelor to stream in depression resolution on a broad diversity of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin can take more than time to procedure. 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 exist bachelor on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Become an overview of channel operation
  • Aqueduct customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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