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 calculator or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn 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 you lot'd like to upload.

Note: Yous tin upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience earlier you finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved equally a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add important details to your video.Notation: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create 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, use the post-obit format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The paradigm viewers volition see earlier 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 Act (COPPA), you lot're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may non be advisable for all audiences.

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

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

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

Any video chapters entered will override auto generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assist 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'south 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 tin can be embedded on a different website. Betoken if y'all'd like to transport 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 instruction or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can go out comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertizing suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more well-nigh Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

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

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

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

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, so click Save.

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the punishment period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Larn more than virtually Community Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout man how to upload videos

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more nigh uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per mean solar day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, run across this article.

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 your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, just you 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 fabricated bachelor for anyone to lookout.

Upload vertical videos

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

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

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

These two dates can be dissimilar if yous uploaded your video as individual or unlisted, and made information technology public later.

Understand video quality processing

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

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

Related links

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

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