Learn How to upload a video to YouTube

Uploading a video to the YouTube search engine is one of the easiest tasks to perform online. However, it cannot be possible to perform this very task if you’re ignorant of the steps to take. That’s why we’re going to inform you about How to upload a video to YouTube.

Before sending that video viral on this very popular search engine, there are a few things you will want to consider. Very important notes which will prevent you from uploading if don’t know or take them seriously. Check them out below;

Copyright

Asking if you have a Youtube channel can be considered a boring question, same about asking if you’ve ever uploaded a video to YouTube before. But, do you know what’s copyright? Is your video copyright free? You need to be sure about this before you upload a video on your channel.

You must make sure that the video you’re uploading is 100 percent original content. Do you want to upload a Wiz Khalifa music video which is already on YouTube? No way! It can’t work that way unless, you use it fairly. Using a video fairly is usually ‘not uploading the whole of it to YouTube’, you can cut little parts of it if you wish, this is allowed for the purpose of research and reference.

Video format

After being sure your video is copyright free, ensure your video format is supported by YouTube. YouTube currently supports the following 3GPP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG4, MPEGPS, WebM and WMV. MPEG4.

You will want to make sure that before you upload a video to YouTube, it has any of the above supported formats.

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How to upload a video to YouTube

While already logged into your account, you should take a look at the top right of the screen, it doesn’t matter if you’re on mobile or Desktop, you’ll see your profile picture, click on it.

If you’re on Mobile, you should see a red arrow pointing upwards, that’s for upload. You will have to click the arrow icon to proceed. While on desktop, a list of options pop up after clicking on your profile picture, Click on ‘Youtube Studio’ then on ‘Create’ when a new page opens.

You’ll select the folder in your device which has your target video, Click on the video and the upload starts automatically.

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