Upload videos

Y'all tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use 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. Learn 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 you'd like to upload.

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

​If you lot close the upload experience before you terminate choosing your settings, your video will exist saved every bit a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

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

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

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you lot're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select SHOW More to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

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

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

Add together descriptive keywords to help 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 explanation certification Cull the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date 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. Indicate if you lot'd similar to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as teaching or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin can run across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the ad suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more well-nigh Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to achieve a broader audience.
End screen Add together visual elements to the finish of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add together an terminate screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, cull when y'all want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You can too share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is prepare to public. Everyone can change this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video'south privacy setting. If you choose to brand your video public, you can likewise set your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video subsequently, choose this selection and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that engagement. You tin also set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand certain they follow YouTube policies, and so click SAVE.

Note: 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 flow duration, and you take to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more well-nigh 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

Acquire more than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per 24-hour interval

There'south a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each 24-hour interval. To increment your daily limit, run into this article.

Upload audio files

You tin can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you tin try other video editing software.

Learn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add blackness 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'southward upload appointment and publish date are different

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

These two dates 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, 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 depression resolution, on a wide multifariousness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. One time high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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