Upload videos

You tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a calculator or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more than 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'd like to upload.

Annotation: Yous can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload feel before you lot finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved as 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.
Description

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will meet 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's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Historic period brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom 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.
Automatic chapters

You can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to scout. You lot can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video capacity entered volition override auto generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance right 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.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Cull the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the appointment 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. Indicate 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 equally teaching or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

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

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to evidence your audition 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 finish 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 you desire your video to publish and who yous want to see your video. You can likewise share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can modify 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 choose to make your video public, you can also set up your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this pick and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video volition be private until that appointment. Yous can also prepare your video equally a Premiere.

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

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruum. Your video is fix to "private" for the penalty catamenia elapsing, and you take to reschedule it when the freeze menses ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more nigh uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, meet this article.

Upload sound files

You lot 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, endeavor converting your sound file to a video file past calculation an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to do this, simply yous can endeavour other video editing software.

Learn the departure 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 made available for anyone to lookout.

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to brandish the content. For the all-time experience, don't add black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Effigy out why your video's upload date and publish date are unlike

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • 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 be different if yous uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public afterwards.

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This procedure helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload menstruation is complete, 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 fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. One time loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist bachelor on your video. Learn more about video processing afterward upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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