Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Utilise 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 that y'all'd similar to upload.

Annotation: You can upload up 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 y'all've finished choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Note: You lot 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 beneath your video. For video attributions, employ the following format:

[Channel proper noun]|[Video championship]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The image that viewers volition meet earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the United states of america Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), yous're required to tell united states whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Historic period restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

You can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Y'all can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by ticking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

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

Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video's discovery.

Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the advertizement suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetisation decisions faster and more accurately. Acquire more well-nigh self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and stop screens to bear witness your audience related videos, websites and calls to action.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, cull when y'all want your video to exist published and who you lot want to see your video. Y'all can besides share your video privately.

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

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you lot cull to make your video public, you lot can besides gear up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later on, choose this option and select the date that you desire your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that engagement. Y'all tin too set your video as a Premiere.

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

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation menstruum. Your video is set to 'private' for the penalisation period elapsing, and yous have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Scout how to upload videos

Take a wait at the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Acquire more near uploading videos

How many videos y'all tin can upload per day

There'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload sound files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can exist 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 practise this, but 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 made available for anyone to scout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will work out the all-time way to brandish the content. For the all-time experience, don't add blackness confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, it will fit the screen.

Understand why your video's upload engagement and publish engagement are different

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

These ii dates can be different if you lot uploaded your video as private or unlisted and fabricated it public later.

Sympathize video quality processing

When y'all upload a video, information technology will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps yous complete the upload process faster. In one case the upload period is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution on a wide multifariousness of devices.

College resolutions, such every bit 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, college resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Learn more about video processing later upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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