Upload videos

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

Notation: This characteristic may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more here.

Upload videos

Use the YouTube Android app to upload videos past recording a new video or selecting an existing ane.

Upload on YouTube on your Android phone or tablet

YouTube Android app

  1. Open up the YouTube app .
  2. Tap Create""and then  Upload a video.
  3. Select the file you'd similar to upload and tap NEXT.
    • If your video is sixty seconds or less and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, it volition exist uploaded as a Brusk. Learn more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, you can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload information technology as a Short. Learn more.

​If you lot shut the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video will exist saved as a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add together important details to your video.

Thumbnail The image viewers will meet earlier clicking your video.
Title The title of your video.
Description

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

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Visibility

Choose the privacy settings of your video to command where your video can appear and who can watch it.

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all tin can set your video to unlisted or private until checks are finished. To go notified once checks are consummate, y'all tin can opt-in to get a notification in the YouTube Studio app. Note: We're slowly rolling out this feature. ​​
Location Enter the location where your video was filmed.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.

Click NEXT to select your audience.

Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you lot're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may not exist advisable for all audiences.

Checks

Note: Nosotros're slowly rolling out this feature.

  • Copyright: The Copyright check searches for copyrighted content in your video. If issues are found, you can remove the claimed content from your video or choose to dispute a claim.
  • Ad suitability: Once yous've turned on ads, the Advertizement suitability check will verify whether your video follows our ad-friendly content guidelines. If issues are found, you can request human review if you call up our systems fabricated a fault.

These checks help you learn about potential restrictions then you can ready problems before your video is published.

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per mean solar day

There'southward a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each day. To increase your daily limit, run across this article.

"Featured in this video" department on Android

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers on Android may see a link on the scout page to the featured creator'southward channel, with the selection to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A diverse grouping of top searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot be tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

If you created the video, you tin tap on the featured creator's name and choose to remove them from the video.

If you're tagged in a video, you tin tap on your name on the lookout man folio and cull to remove yourself from the video or from all videos you're tagged in on this channel.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You can change the blazon of connection used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your contour picture .
  2. Tap Settings and thenFull general.
  3. Tap Uploads.
  4. Cull betwixt uploading videos over Wi-Fi or your mobile network.

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 available for anyone with access to scout it.

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload your video, YouTube volition figure out the all-time style to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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