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 superlative-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file that you'd like to upload.

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

​If y'all shut the upload experience before yous've finished choosing your settings, your video will exist saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

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

[Aqueduct name]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Usa Children's Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may non exist advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Show More than to choose your advanced 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 sentinel. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by ticking the 'Let automatic capacity (when available and eligible)' tick box.

Any video chapters entered will override machine-generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to aid correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Cull the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording date and location Enter the appointment 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 every bit education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can apply the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states make monetisation decisions faster and more than accurately. Acquire more near cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end 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.
End screen Add visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must exist 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 desire your video to be published and who you desire to meet your video. You can also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you lot can also set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the appointment that you desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. Y'all can too set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to 'private' for the penalty period duration, and y'all have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Acquire more than most Community Guidelines strike basics.

Scout how to upload videos

Take a look at 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 lot can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, run across this article.

Upload sound files

You tin't upload audio files to YouTube. Come across a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't have a tool to exercise this, but you can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between 'upload' and 'publish'

When you lot 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 volition work out the best fashion to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, it will fit the screen.

Sympathize why your video's upload date and publish date are different

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

These two dates can be different if you uploaded your video equally private or unlisted and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When y'all upload a video, information technology will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you consummate the upload procedure faster. Once the upload flow is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in low resolution on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, tin accept more than time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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