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

Note: You can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If y'all close the upload experience earlier you've finished choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add of import details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The title of your video. This field is required.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Aqueduct name]|[Video title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image that 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 The states Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all're required to tell us whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details folio, select SHOW More to cull your advanced settings.

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

You can add video affiliate titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to spotter. Yous can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by ticking the 'Allow automated chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

Whatsoever video capacity entered will override motorcar-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 office in your video'southward discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the date on which the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
Licence and distribution Select if your video tin be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd similar to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts permissions Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such equally teaching or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers tin can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetisation

Advertizement suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, y'all can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos confronting our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activity helps us brand monetisation decisions faster and more accurately. Larn more virtually self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to bear witness your audience related videos, websites and calls to activity.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to accomplish a broader audition.
Cease screen Add visual elements to the cease of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an finish screen.
Cards Add together interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to be published and who you want to see your video. Yous tin can too share your video privately.

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

  • Salvage or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted or Public equally your video'southward privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can also set your video equally an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date that y'all want your video to exist published. Your video will exist individual until that engagement. You can also set up your video equally a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make certain that they follow YouTube policies, and so click Salvage.

Note: If your business relationship has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty period. Your video is set to 'private' for the penalty menstruum duration, and you have to reschedule it when the freeze menstruation ends. Larn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

Accept a wait at the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Acquire more most uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

There'south a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each solar day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. Meet a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file past adding an epitome. YouTube doesn't have 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 yous publish a video, the video is made bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will work out the best style to display the content. For the best feel, don't add black confined 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 appointment are different

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

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

Understand video quality processing

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

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

Related links

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

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