Upload videos

You 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.

Annotation: 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 tiptop-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file yous'd like to upload.

Note: You can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience earlier you stop choosing your settings, your video will exist saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You tin 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:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition see earlier 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 Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell us 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 page, select Prove More to choose your advanced settings.

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

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

Whatsoever video capacity entered volition override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is ordinarily misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'south discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording date 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 exist embedded on a different website. Bespeak if you'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 education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertizing suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach 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 cease screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

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

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can also prepare your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, cull this option and select the appointment you want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that date. Y'all can besides gear up your video every bit a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand 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 flow. Your video is prepare to "private" for the penalisation period duration, and you lot accept to reschedule it when the freeze flow ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Lookout 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

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. Encounter a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

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

Learn the divergence between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best fashion to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness bars 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'southward upload engagement and publish appointment are unlike

  • Upload date: The engagement 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 below your live video and is always in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates tin can be different if you uploaded your video equally individual or unlisted, and made information technology public later.

Sympathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This procedure helps yous complete the upload process faster. When the upload menses is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, tin can accept 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, college resolutions will be available on your video. Acquire more than about video processing later upload.

Related links

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

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