Upload videos

You lot can 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 exist bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the tiptop-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

Notation: You can upload up to xv videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload feel before you terminate choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You tin 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, employ the post-obit format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Bear witness MORE to cull your advanced settings.

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Yous can create your own video chapters or use 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 together descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'due south discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording date 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 different website. Point if yous'd like 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 as instruction or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all can use the advert suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more than near Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to bear witness your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to accomplish a broader audience.
End screen Add 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 encounter your video. You lot can also share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video'due south privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video volition exist private until that engagement. Y'all can also set your video every bit a Premiere.

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

Notation: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "individual" for the punishment period duration, and you lot have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hour period

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

Upload audio files

Y'all tin can't upload sound files to YouTube. See 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 by adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to do this, but you can attempt other video editing software.

Learn the divergence between "upload" and "publish"

When y'all upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When you publish a video, the video is fabricated bachelor for anyone to spotter.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best manner to display the content. For the best feel, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

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

These two dates can exist different if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially be candy in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload catamenia is consummate, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more than time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be 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 after upload.

Related links

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

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