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.

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 top-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file that you'd like to upload.

Note: Yous tin upload up to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you lot close the upload experience before you've finished choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together of import details to your video.Notation: Yous 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, employ the following format:

[Channel name]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that viewers volition run into before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), yous're required to tell us whether your videos are Fabricated for Kids.
Historic period restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not exist advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select SHOW More than to cull your advanced settings.

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

Y'all can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to brand them easier to scout. You lot tin can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters past ticking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

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

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can exist useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'south discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Permit others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can utilize the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s. make monetisation decisions faster and more accurately. Learn more about self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and stop screens to show 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.
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 together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you want your video to be published and who you lot want to see your video. Y'all can too share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile xiii–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is gear up 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 Individual, Unlisted or Public every bit your video'south privacy setting. If yous choose to brand your video public, you can likewise set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video afterward, choose this option and select the date that you want your video to be published. Your video will exist individual until that appointment. You can also set your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make certain that they follow YouTube policies, then click Salve.

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is gear up to 'private' for the penalty menstruation duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Customs Guidelines strike basics.

Lookout man how to upload videos

Take a look at the post-obit video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more nigh uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

At that place'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

Yous tin can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a listing of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

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

Larn the divergence betwixt 'upload' and 'publish'

When you 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 volition work out the best mode to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square or horizontal, it will fit the screen.

Understand why your video's upload date and publish date are different

  • Upload engagement: The date that you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish engagement: The appointment that your video became public. Appears below your live video and is always in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These two dates can be different if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted and made information technology public subsequently.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This process helps y'all complete the upload process faster. Once the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in depression resolution on a wide variety of devices.

College resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing college resolutions for several hours. Once loftier-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more than about video processing afterwards upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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