Upload videos

Yous can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply 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. Larn more hither.

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 yous'd like to upload.

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

​If you close the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: Yous can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, utilise the post-obit format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will run into before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Bear witness 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 chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to sentinel. You lot can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Permit automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered will override motorcar generated video chapters.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags tin 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 Cull the original video language and caption certification.
Recording engagement and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a dissimilar website. Indicate if you lot'd similar 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 pedagogy or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

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

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to activeness.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, cull when you want your video to publish and who y'all desire to come across your video. Yous tin also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–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, private, or unlisted.

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public equally your video's privacy setting. If you lot cull to make your video public, yous can too set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video subsequently, cull this option and select the engagement y'all want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that date. You tin also set your video as a Premiere.

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

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

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 near uploading videos

How many videos y'all can upload per twenty-four hour period

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

Upload sound files

Yous can't upload sound files to YouTube. Encounter a listing of supported file formats that tin can be uploaded to YouTube.

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

Acquire the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When y'all upload and publish your video, YouTube volition effigy out the all-time way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined 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 different

  • Upload date: The engagement you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent to your individual or unlisted video on your Content folio.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your alive video and is always in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates can exist different if y'all uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Sympathise video quality processing

When y'all upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload period is complete, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can accept more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more near video processing later on upload.

Related links

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

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