Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more 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 you'd like to upload.

Note: You can upload up to fifteen videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before you cease choosing your settings, your video will 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.

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

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one 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 u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not exist appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select Bear witness MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. Y'all tin can create your own video chapters or employ the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video capacity entered will override machine generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assist correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and explanation certification Choose 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 different website. Betoken if you'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 education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin go out 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 Programme, you lot tin can use the advert suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more nearly Self-certification.

Video elements

Add together 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 achieve a broader audience.
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 folio, cull when you want your video to publish and who you want to encounter your video. You can also 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 can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video'southward privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, you tin as well set your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterwards, choose this choice and select the date yous want your video to be published. Your video will exist private until that date. You can as well set your video every bit a Premiere.

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

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty period duration, and you accept to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more almost Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

Cheque out the following 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 you can upload per day

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

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. Run into a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to practice this, but you can effort other video editing software.

Larn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When y'all upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

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

These 2 dates tin can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology will initially exist processed in depression resolution. This process helps y'all complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow 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 time to process. 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 than almost video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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