Upload videos

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

Note: This characteristic may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire 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 like to upload.

Annotation: You can upload up to 15 videos at a fourth dimension. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

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

Details

Add together important details to your video.Annotation: You tin 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 beneath your video. For video attributions, utilise the following format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will run across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Historic period-restrict videos that may non be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Prove MORE to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

Yous can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to picket. You can create your own video chapters or utilise the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatsoever video chapters entered will override motorcar generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption 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 different website. Signal 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 teaching or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can run into how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

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

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Terminate screen Add visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must exist 25 seconds or longer to add an cease screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when yous want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Yous can besides share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If yous cull to make your video public, yous tin also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this option and select the date you desire your video to be published. Your video volition be private until that date. You lot can also set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure they follow YouTube policies, then click Salve.

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty flow duration, and y'all have to reschedule information technology when the freeze flow ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

Check out the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more than well-nigh uploading videos

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

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

Upload sound files

You lot can't upload audio files to YouTube. Encounter a listing of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to practice this, only you can attempt other video editing software.

Learn the difference 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 bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best style to display the content. For the best experience, 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'due south upload appointment and publish appointment are different

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially be candy in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is consummate, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have more fourth dimension 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 be available on your video. Learn more about video processing later on upload.

Related links

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

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