Upload videos

You tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos

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

Upload on YouTube on your Android phone or tablet

YouTube Android app

  1. Open the YouTube app .
  2. Tap Create""and then  Upload a video.
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload and tap Adjacent.
    • If your video is 60 seconds or less and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, information technology will be uploaded as a Short. Learn more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than lx seconds and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, y'all can tap "Edit into a Brusk" to trim your video and upload it as a Curt. Learn more.

​If y'all close the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add of import details to your video.

Thumbnail The image viewers will run across before clicking your video.
Title The title of your video.
Description

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

[Channel Proper noun]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Visibility

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

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can set up your video to unlisted or individual until checks are finished. To get notified once checks are complete, yous can opt-in to become a notification in the YouTube Studio app. Annotation: Nosotros're slowly rolling out this feature. ​​
Location Enter the location where your video was filmed.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.

Click Adjacent to select your audience.

Audience To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell united states whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Checks

Note: We're slowly rolling out this feature.

  • Copyright: The Copyright bank check searches for copyrighted content in your video. If issues are found, you can remove the claimed content from your video or cull to dispute a merits.
  • Advertisement suitability: One time y'all've turned on ads, the Advertizement suitability check volition verify whether your video follows our advertising-friendly content guidelines. If issues are found, y'all can request homo review if you think our systems fabricated a error.

These checks help y'all learn about potential restrictions so you lot can ready issues before your video is published.

Acquire more almost uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

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

"Featured in this video" section on Android

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers on Android may see a link on the watch page to the featured creator's aqueduct, with the pick to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to notice new creators and subscribe to their channels.

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

How to remove a tag

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

If y'all're tagged in a video, you can tap on your proper name on the watch folio and choose to remove yourself from the video or from all videos you're tagged in on this channel.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

Y'all can change the type of connection used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your profile motion-picture show .
  2. Tap Settings and thenFull general.
  3. Tap Uploads.
  4. Cull between uploading videos over Wi-Fi or your mobile network.

Acquire the deviation 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 available for anyone with access to watch it.

Upload vertical videos

When yous upload your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add together blackness bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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