Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be 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.

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

​If you close the upload feel before y'all finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Note: You lot can 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 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'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell united states of america 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 folio, select SHOW More than to choose your advanced settings.

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

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to watch. Y'all can create your ain video capacity or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add descriptive keywords to aid 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.
Language 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 dissimilar 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 as teaching or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advert suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin apply the ad suitability folio to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states of america make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end screens to show 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 end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an terminate screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you want your video to publish and who you lot want to see your video. You lot can likewise share your video privately.

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

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video'due south privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, y'all can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this choice and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You tin can also set your video as 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 penalization catamenia. Your video is ready to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you accept to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more near uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

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

Upload audio files

You lot can't upload sound files to YouTube. Encounter 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 by adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, but yous tin endeavor other video editing software.

Learn the deviation betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time fashion 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, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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

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

These ii dates tin can exist different if you uploaded your video as individual or unlisted, and made information technology public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially be processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload menstruation is complete, your video will be bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a wide multifariousness 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 high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more nigh video processing afterward upload.

Related links

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

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