Upload videos

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

Annotation: This characteristic 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 superlative-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

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

​If yous close the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

Info that shows beneath your video. For video attributions, use the post-obit format:

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

Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will run across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to ane of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell the states 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 folio, select SHOW More to choose your advanced settings.

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

You lot can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You tin create your ain video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered will override motorcar generated video capacity.

Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist 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 engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin can exist embedded on a dissimilar website. Betoken if yous'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 tin leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, yous can apply the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to prove your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

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

Checks

Visibility

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

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, y'all can also gear up your video equally 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 volition be private until that engagement. Yous can also set your video equally a Premiere.

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

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 penalization period elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze menstruation ends. Learn more than nigh Community Guidelines strike basics.

Spotter how to upload videos

Bank 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 about uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each twenty-four hours. To increase your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload sound files

Yous can't upload audio files to YouTube. Run into a listing 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 adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to exercise this, but you tin attempt other video editing software.

Learn the divergence between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to lookout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together black confined 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 uploaded your video. Shows side by side to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is always in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates can exist different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps yous complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video volition be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin have more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Acquire more about video processing afterwards upload.

Related links

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

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