Upload videos

Y'all can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Utilise the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

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 similar to upload.

Annotation: You lot can upload up 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 terminate choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Notation: You lot can click REUSE DETAILS to copy 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 Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will run across earlier clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

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

Y'all tin can add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to sentinel. You 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 chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help right search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and explanation 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 unlike website. Indicate if you'd like 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 education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin utilise the advert suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when y'all desire your video to publish and who you lot desire to meet your video. Yous tin can besides share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're eighteen or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody tin modify this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video'due south privacy setting. If y'all choose to make your video public, y'all tin can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the appointment you want your video to exist published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You tin besides set your video as a Premiere.

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

Annotation: If your business relationship has a Customs Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty flow. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period elapsing, and you take to reschedule information technology when the freeze menstruation ends. Learn more nigh Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Spotter how to upload videos

Bank check out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn 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 tin can upload each solar day. To increase your daily limit, run across this article.

Upload audio files

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

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

Acquire the deviation betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best feel, 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.

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

  • Upload date: The date y'all uploaded your video. Shows adjacent to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish appointment: The date your video became public. Shows below your live video and is e'er in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These two dates tin be unlike if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and fabricated it public later.

Empathize video quality processing

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

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

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct functioning
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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