Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the meridian-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file yous'd like to upload.

Notation: You tin can upload up to xv videos at a fourth dimension. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before you stop choosing your settings, your video volition be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Notation: You can 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 below your video. For video attributions, utilise the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will run across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell u.s. whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to cull your avant-garde settings.

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

You can add 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 automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to assist right search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose 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 unlike website. Indicate 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 teaching or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you lot can use 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 Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Terminate 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 together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

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

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin modify this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this choice and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can also set up your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video after, choose this pick and select the date you lot want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You can also ready your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make 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 penalty flow. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period elapsing, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more than about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Watch 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each mean solar day. To increment your daily limit, run across this commodity.

Upload sound files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. See 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 by calculation an prototype. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can try other video editing software.

Learn the divergence betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best style to display the content. For the best 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 date and publish engagement are different

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

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

Understand video quality processing

When yous upload a video, it volition initially be candy in low resolution. This process helps yous consummate the upload process faster. When the upload flow is consummate, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a broad variety of devices.

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

Related links

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

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