Upload videos

Y'all 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 non exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

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

​If you close the upload experience before yous cease choosing your settings, your video will exist saved every bit a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Note: Yous tin 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 beneath your video. For video attributions, utilize the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will come across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to ane 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 made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details folio, select SHOW More to cull your advanced settings.

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

Y'all can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to scout. Yous tin create your own video capacity or apply the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin 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 audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can go out comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can meet how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can utilize the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more most Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to bear witness 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.
End screen Add together 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, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who yous desire to meet your video. Yous can as well share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you lot're xviii or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this pick and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to brand your video public, y'all tin can also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, cull this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video volition be private until that date. You can also gear up your video as a Premiere.

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

Annotation: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty flow. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty menstruum duration, and y'all have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Watch 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

There'southward a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

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

To add together your content to YouTube, attempt converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to practice this, only y'all can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When y'all upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

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

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time fashion to brandish the content. For the best feel, 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.

Effigy out why your video's upload date and publish appointment are different

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

These two dates tin can be dissimilar if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Sympathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially be processed in depression resolution. This process helps you consummate the upload process faster. When the upload menstruum is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide diverseness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, tin take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Learn more virtually video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel functioning
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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