Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a figurer or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This feature may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: Y'all tin upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you shut the upload experience before y'all finish choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved every bit 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.

Championship The title of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition run into 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'southward Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may non be advisable for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, 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. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic capacity (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to aid correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly 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 date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin exist embedded on a different website. Bespeak if you'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 can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Plan, y'all tin can use the advert suitability page to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more virtually Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and finish screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you desire to see your video. You tin also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can too set up your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video after, choose this selection and select the date you want your video to exist published. Your video will be individual until that date. You can also set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty catamenia. Your video is set to "private" for the penalization menses elapsing, and y'all accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Spotter how to upload videos

Check out the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more virtually uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct tin can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

You tin't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you lot can try other video editing software.

Acquire the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

When yous upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

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

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best manner to display the content. For the all-time feel, don't add together black bars 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 dissimilar

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

These two dates can be different if you uploaded your video every bit individual or unlisted, and made information technology public after.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, can take more than fourth dimension to procedure. 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 virtually video processing later upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Become an overview of channel operation
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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