Upload videos

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

Note: 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 top-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file y'all'd like to upload.

Note: Y'all can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Be sure 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 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 championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

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

[Channel Proper noun]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), yous're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Show More to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

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

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication 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 dissimilar website. Betoken if you'd similar 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 equally pedagogy or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can run into how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

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

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to evidence your audition related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to achieve a broader audition.
Finish 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 you want your video to publish and who yous want to see your video. Y'all tin can too share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you tin can as well prepare your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You can too set your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is prepare to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Sentry 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 than almost uploading videos

How many videos you lot tin upload per day

There'southward a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You tin't upload audio files to YouTube. See a listing of supported file formats that tin exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, attempt converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, merely you can try 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 available for anyone to lookout man.

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 black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video's upload date and publish date are unlike

  • Upload date: The engagement you uploaded your video. Shows next to your individual 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 y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This process helps you consummate the upload procedure faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in depression resolution, on a wide multifariousness 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 higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more almost video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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