Upload videos

You lot 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 estimator or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: You lot tin can upload upward to xv videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you shut the upload feel before you stop choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video.
Description

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

[Aqueduct Proper noun]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details folio, select Show More than to choose your advanced settings.

Paid promotion Let viewers and YouTube know that your video has a paid promotion.
Automated chapters

You tin add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to watch. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Permit automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the engagement 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 unlike website. Betoken if y'all'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as instruction 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

Advertisement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can utilise the advertising suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s.a. make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
End screen Add together 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, cull when you lot want your video to publish and who y'all want to see your video. You lot can as well share your video privately.

Notation: 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 tin can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If y'all choose to make your video public, you can also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, choose this option and select the engagement you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You tin also prepare your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make certain 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 menses. Your video is gear up to "private" for the punishment period duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more than well-nigh uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per solar day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel tin can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. Encounter 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 calculation an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can endeavor other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When y'all publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to lookout man.

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best mode 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 will fit the screen.

Figure out why your video's upload appointment 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 beneath your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates tin can exist dissimilar if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and made it public after.

Understand video quality processing

When you 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 bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a broad multifariousness of devices.

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

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel functioning
  • Aqueduct customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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