Upload videos

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

Annotation: This characteristic may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more than hither.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: You can upload upwards 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 you lot finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video.
Description

Info that shows beneath your video. For video attributions, employ the following format: [Channel Name] [Video Title] [Video ID]

For corrections in your video, add "Correction:" or "Corrections:" then add the timestamp and explanation of your correction. This section should appear after whatsoever video chapters. When your audience watches your video, a View Corrections info menu will appear.

Note: If the channel has whatsoever active strikes, or if the content may be inappropriate to some viewers, the corrections characteristic won't exist bachelor.
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will view 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'southward Online Privacy Protection Human action (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may non be appropriate for sure audiences.

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

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

Y'all tin add together video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You lot can create your ain video capacity or utilize the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to aid correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is normally misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video's discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the appointment 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'd similar to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such equally educational activity or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Cull whether viewers tin find how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the advertizing suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Acquire more than well-nigh Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and cease screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audition.
Stop 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

Use the Checks page to screen your video for copyright issues and, if you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, advertisement suitability.

  • Copyright: The Copyright cheque searches for copyrighted content in your video. If bug are found, yous can remove the claimed content from your video or cull to dispute a claim.
  • Ad suitability: The Advertisement suitability check will verify whether your video follows our ad-friendly content guidelines. If problems are constitute, you tin request human being review if you think our systems made a mistake.

These checks help you larn about potential restrictions so you can fix bug before your video is published. Checks tin can accept some time, merely they run in the background, so yous can ever return to the procedure later. You lot can also publish your video while checks are running and set issues subsequently.

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you desire your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You tin as well share your video privately.

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

  • Save or publish: To publish your video at present, choose this option and select Individual, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you tin also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this choice and select the date you lot want your video to be published. Your video volition be private until that engagement. You tin as well set your video as a Premiere.

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

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menses. Your video is ready to "individual" for the penalty period duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Acquire more virtually Community Guidelines strike nuts.

Sentinel how to upload videos

Check out the post-obit 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 tin upload per mean solar day

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

Upload audio files

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

To add together your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, simply you can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is fabricated bachelor for anyone to scout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the all-time way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together black bars 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's upload date and publish date are different

  • Upload date: The date you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent to your individual 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 Fourth dimension (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 you lot upload a video, information technology will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you lot consummate the upload process faster. When the upload flow is consummate, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, tin can take more fourth dimension to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be available on your video. Learn more about video processing later upload.

Related links

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

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