Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn 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 yous'd like to upload.

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

​If you shut the upload experience before y'all stop choosing your settings, your video will exist saved equally a typhoon on your Content folio.

Details

Add important details to your video.Notation: 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, apply 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 us whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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

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

You tin can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to sentinel. You lot can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to assistance correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be 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 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 Allow 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 tin leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin can meet how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s.a. make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to evidence your audience related videos, websites, and calls to action.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audition.
End 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 interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who you desire to come across your video. You tin also share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If you lot're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is prepare to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If y'all cull to make your video public, you lot tin can also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, choose this selection and select the date y'all want your video to be published. Your video will exist individual until that date. Yous tin as well set your video every bit a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure 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 punishment menstruum. Your video is set to "individual" for the punishment period elapsing, and y'all take to reschedule it when the freeze menstruation ends. Learn more about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Sentinel how to upload videos

Check out the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per 24-hour interval

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct tin upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, come across this article.

Upload sound files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. Run across a list of supported file formats that tin can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your sound file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you lot tin can try 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 you publish a video, the video is fabricated available for anyone to sentry.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add black confined 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'south upload engagement and publish appointment are dissimilar

  • Upload engagement: The date you uploaded your video. Shows next to your individual or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish engagement: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates can be different if you uploaded your video every bit individual or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more than time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be bachelor on your video. Learn more than about 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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