Upload videos

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

Note: This characteristic 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 like to upload.

Annotation: You tin upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before you end choosing your settings, your video volition be saved equally a draft on your Content page.

Details

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

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

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the post-obit format:

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will come 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's Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select Bear witness MORE to cull your advanced settings.

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

Yous can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You tin can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated capacity past checking the 'Let automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video capacity entered volition override auto 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 function in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and explanation 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 tin be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like 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 comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the advertising suitability folio to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Cocky-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add together subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Finish screen Add together visual elements to the terminate 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, cull when you want your video to publish and who you want to run into your video. You lot can too share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can alter this setting to make their video public, private, 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 y'all choose to make your video public, you can as well ready your video every bit an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video subsequently, choose this pick and select the date yous want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You tin can likewise set your video as a Premiere.

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

Annotation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty menses duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Acquire more near Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Sentinel 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 about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hours

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

Upload audio files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a listing of supported file formats that can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an prototype. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, but yous 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 lot publish a video, the video is fabricated available for anyone to lookout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black bars 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'due south upload date and publish date are different

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

These 2 dates can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public afterwards.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will 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 available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, can accept 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 be available on your video. Learn more virtually video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Go an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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