Upload videos

You lot tin 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.

Annotation: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn 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'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload experience before you lot finish choosing your settings, your video will exist saved as a draft 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 title of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

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

[Channel Proper noun]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all're required to tell the states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details folio, select Testify 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 affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You tin create your ain video capacity or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatever video chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'southward discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a unlike website. Point if you'd like to ship 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 comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all can use the advertisement suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us brand monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and terminate 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.
Finish screen Add together visual elements to the end 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 page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Y'all can also share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you lot can as well ready your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, cull this pick and select the date y'all want your video to be published. Your video volition exist individual until that date. You tin can also set up your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make certain they follow YouTube policies, then click Save.

Annotation: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is fix to "private" for the penalty menstruum duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more near 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

Learn 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 day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

Y'all can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that tin be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by calculation an paradigm. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, but you can endeavour other video editing software.

Learn the divergence 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 available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best feel, don't add together black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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

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

These ii dates can be different if y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it will initially exist candy in depression resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will exist available to stream in low resolution, on a wide diversity of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin take more than fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition exist bachelor on your video. Acquire more well-nigh video processing later on upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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