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 non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Notation: Y'all can 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 earlier you finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You tin click REUSE DETAILS to re-create 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 post-obit format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), yous're required to tell usa whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Prove MORE to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

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

Any video capacity entered will override auto generated video capacity.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal function in your video's discovery.
Language and explanation certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video can exist embedded on a unlike website. Point if yous'd similar to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers tin can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can use the ad suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to evidence your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activeness.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
End screen Add visual elements to the stop 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, choose when you want your video to publish and who you desire to see your video. Y'all tin also share your video privately.

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

  • Relieve or publish: To publish your video now, choose this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If y'all choose to make your video public, you can also ready your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this pick and select the date y'all want your video to exist published. Your video volition be private until that date. You tin can as well set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, then click Save.

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

Watch 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each 24-hour interval. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list 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 by adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, only you tin can effort other video editing software.

Larn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When you lot 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 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'due south upload date and publish engagement are different

  • Upload appointment: The date you lot uploaded your video. Shows next 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 ever in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates tin be unlike if you uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated information technology public afterward.

Understand video quality processing

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

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can have more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. In one case high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more about video processing later on upload.

Related links

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

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