Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature 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-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd similar to upload.

Note: Y'all can upload up to fifteen videos at a fourth dimension. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience earlier you stop choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Notation: You tin click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select Evidence More than to cull your advanced settings.

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

You lot can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video capacity entered will override car generated video chapters.
Tags

Add 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.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language 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 different website. Betoken if yous'd similar to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertising suitability folio to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and finish screens to show your audition 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 together 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 folio, choose when you lot want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. Y'all can also share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can as well fix your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this selection and select the engagement you desire your video to be published. Your video will be private until that engagement. You tin also set up your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand sure they follow YouTube policies, then click Save.

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menstruum. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty period duration, and you have to reschedule information technology 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 most uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

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

Upload sound files

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

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

Acquire the divergence 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 spotter.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time way to brandish the content. For the best experience, 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 date are different

  • Upload date: The appointment y'all uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish appointment: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your alive video and is always in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates tin be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and made information technology public later on.

Sympathize video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it volition initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will exist bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more about video processing afterward upload.

Related links

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

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