Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

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

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the elevation-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

Notation: You tin upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If y'all close the upload experience earlier you cease 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.

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

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, utilise the following format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see 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 Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may non be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

Any video chapters entered volition override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to aid right search mistakes.

Tags 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 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 you lot'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 equally education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin can use the advertising suitability folio to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to accomplish a broader audition.
End screen Add together visual elements to the finish of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an cease screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you want to meet your video. You can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, cull this pick and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'southward privacy setting. If y'all cull to brand your video public, you tin as well gear up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, choose this option and select the date you lot want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You lot tin also set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruum. Your video is set to "private" for the penalization period elapsing, and y'all accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about 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

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per solar day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each 24-hour interval. To increment your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. See 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 prototype. YouTube doesn't take a tool to exercise this, merely yous can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference betwixt "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 man.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best mode to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload menstruation is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide diverseness 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 be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more than about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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