Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply the instructions below to upload your videos from a estimator or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic 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 acme-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

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

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

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You tin click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not exist 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.
Automated chapters

Y'all can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You lot can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity past checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatever video chapters entered will override automobile generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct 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.
Language and caption certification Choose 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 similar to ship 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 instruction or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull 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 y'all're in the YouTube Partner Programme, y'all can use the ad suitability page to charge per unit your videos confronting 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 finish screens to prove 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 visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add together an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, cull when you want your video to publish and who you lot want to see your video. Y'all can also share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public equally your video'southward privacy setting. If you lot choose to make your video public, you lot can also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this choice and select the engagement y'all want your video to be published. Your video will exist private until that engagement. Yous can also set your video every bit a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make certain they follow YouTube policies, then click Salve.

Annotation: If your business relationship 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 lot take to reschedule it when the freeze flow ends. Learn more near Community Guidelines strike basics.

Sentinel how to upload videos

Check out the following 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 you lot tin can upload per solar day

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, see this commodity.

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. See 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 past adding an image. YouTube doesn't take a tool to practise this, but you can attempt other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When yous publish a video, the video is made bachelor for anyone to sentry.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, foursquare, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

Figure out why your video'due south upload appointment and publish date are dissimilar

  • Upload date: The appointment 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 dissimilar if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When y'all upload a video, it will initially be candy in low resolution. This process helps you lot complete the upload process faster. When the upload catamenia is consummate, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

College 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 be bachelor on your video. Larn more near 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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