Upload videos

Yous tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few piece of cake steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic may not exist 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 you lot'd like to upload.

Note: You tin can upload upwardly to fifteen videos at a fourth dimension. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before y'all finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Notation: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to 1 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 us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select Prove More to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

Yous can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to sentry. You lot can create your ain video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity 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 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's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication 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 tin can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if yous'd similar to ship 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 education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the ad suitability page to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more nigh Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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 an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when y'all desire your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Y'all can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is fix to public. Anybody tin can alter this setting to make their video public, individual, 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 lot choose to brand your video public, you lot can as well gear up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later on, choose this pick and select the date you lot desire your video to be published. Your video volition exist private until that date. You lot can as well gear up your video as a Premiere.

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

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

Watch 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 about uploading videos

How many videos yous can upload per day

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

Upload sound files

Yous can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a listing of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your sound file to a video file by calculation an prototype. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to exercise this, but you can attempt other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous publish a video, the video is made bachelor for anyone to spotter.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time style to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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

  • Upload date: The date you lot 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 e'er in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates can be unlike if yous uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Empathise video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide multifariousness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Larn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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