How to upload your YouTube videos the
right way? because properly uploading
your videos to YouTube makes or breaks
the success of your video. There's so
much stuff to fill out and if you don't
do it the right way, then your video can
get demonetized, can get a Community
Guidelines strike or YouTube won't
promote your video at all to viewers. in
this video I'm going to share exactly
how to do it step-by-step with the
upload flow that was introduced in 2020
I appreciate you tuning in, my name is
Dexter Clark from the Netherlands and
with socialvideoplaza.com and this
YouTube channel I help entrepreneurs
explode their revenue with the help of
YouTube. And if you're into that sort of
thing you should consider subscribing
and while you're at it hit the bell, so
you get a notification when I upload a
new video. I can upload videos on YouTube
in two ways first everywhere on YouTube
where you are doesn't matter there is
over here a camera icon with a plus and
when you click on that you get a little
menu that says upload video I can click
on here it says go live for
live-streaming and create post probably
you don't have that option because it is
a special feature the community tab for
bigger channels I can click over here
then it will take you to YouTube studio
so I click here now it will take me over
to YouTube studio and the upload panel
will appear when I click on the X I can
go back to YouTube studio the other way
that I want to show you is wherever you
are on YouTube studio you can click on
create over here and you can click on
upload videos that is exactly the same
method and also here is a upload icon
and it will take you again to that same
window there are again two ways to
upload a video you can click over here
then it will open a dialog that asks you
where on your computer that you have
stored that video file I click cancel
because I don't want to do that but I
can also drag and drop files from finder
or Explorer and
I'm gonna drag and drop that file to the
window over here now it starts uploading
the file and you can see on the bottom
of this panel it will show you a
progress indicator but while it's
uploading you can already fill out the
details of your video file on the top of
this screen are a couple of steps
details monetization video elements and
visibility when you start a YouTube
channel you don't have monetization you
need to be a member of the ypp the
YouTube Partner Program if you don't
have that then your video elements will
be your next step we're going to go
through all of these steps step by step
I first going to take you through this
tab over here the details so my video
title my amazing video title my video
description with all the tags and the
timestamps in it over here's a little
preview and it already assigned a
YouTube URL and if you click over here
you can copy that link if you want to
when I scroll down then over here I can
use one of the pre-selected thumbnails
of YouTube those are just screenshots
from your video but I can also
upload my own custom thumbnail and
that is exactly what I advise you to
do then over here is the playlist and
you can assign a playlist or create a
new playlist when I click on that you
can see I can select a couple of
playlists if I have created a playlist
already if I want to create a new
playlist I click on new playlist and I
say my new playlist you can assign a
visibility to that playlist is it public
or private or unlisted public means that
it is available to everybody and private
means that it is only available to you
unless that means that it is available
to everybody but
isn't publicly available on YouTube if
you have the URL of the playlist
everybody can access it but it isn't
findable or searchable in Google or in
YouTube search and I click create if I
want to let's create a playlist as
private and click create when we scroll
a little bit down over here is the
audience section and in the audience
section you need to specify if your
video is made for kids or not just to be
clear I'm not a lawyer I am not able to
give legal advice in any way consult a
lawyer if you want to make sure if your
video is specifically targeted towards
kids with cartoons for example or flashy
colors etc ice cream that kind of stuff
then you need to select yes it's made
for kids and otherwise if it's a broad
audience including and that can be
including children then you need to
select no it's not made for kids also
here and it is a little bit hidden you
need to click on that it says age
restriction advanced make sure that you
select the correct option over here
yes restrict my videos to viewers over
18 or no don't which take my video to
viewers over 18 if you have a
family-friendly content then you need to
select no don't restrict my video to
viewers over 18 if you do have strong
language or something then you need to
specify or nudity for example
yes restrict my video to viewers over 18
but to make it abundantly clear you
can't do nudity on YouTube that's
totally totally off limits there are
more options over here click on more
options paid promotion does your video
contain paid promotion for other brands
not your own brand but other brands for
example if you do sponsorships and you
recommend a certain product you need to
check
this thingy over here it is a Community
Guidelines thing you need to do that in
some countries you need to specify
really clearly I think England has such
a really strict policy on that when I
checked this add message to my video to
inform viewers about pay promotion if
that's the case you need to check that
oh and by the way if you like this video
you probably gonna like what I have in
store for you on this channel
subscribe and hit the bell so you get a
notification when I upload a new video
over here are the tags the tags are
absolutely not important anymore on
YouTube in 2015
yes maybe but nowadays no the only
exception to that is for often
misspelled words over here you can set
the video language do this correctly
because YouTube tries to recognize what
you're saying in the video and if your
video language is not correct it
recognized the wrong language then your
subtitles are totally garbage caption
certification if you want to do captions
what is the certification type of that
certain caption make sure if you use
captions that you that you specify the
right option over here you can also
upload files that certain transcription
services will send to you you can do
that but there is also a section on
YouTube which lets you transcribe your
video yourself so you can choose all a
complete file with the whole
transcription or no file and do it on
YouTube itself also over here is the
recording date and location and not
really important recording dates it
doesn't matter at all over here is video
location yeah it's it's not important
for example I never fill it out but I
can imagine if you have a vlog for
example and you go to Tenerife or
something or Ibiza then you would want
to fill this out because you want to be
found on Ibiza then fill out Ibiza
over here over here license and
distribution license the standard
YouTube license is protected by law you
don't allow anyone to use your videos in
any way shape or form or you do want to
allow everyone so they can do everything
with your video then you say Creative
Commons over here is a distribution you
can't change this option allow embedding
that means if you have a website or
someone wants to embed it in their
website do you want to allow that
YouTube player on your website I can't
imagine that there would be a case that
you don't want that also publish to
subscriptions feed and notify
subscribers this means that
your subscribers will get a notification
once your video goes public there are
certain cases some cases that you don't
want to do that for example I made a
video about installing software
installing Rekordbox, my subscribers
are totally not interested in an installing
video but there are people on YouTube
searching for that kinds of videos
that's why I make these videos if my
subscribers don't like the video which
is probably the case with an installing
video you don't promote it anymore so I
want not to publish that video to my
subscribe so i uncheck this option over
here is the category option I've set it to
education but really the YouTube
algorithm is so smart it will figure out
what the topic of your video is
YouTube said on multiple occasions they
don't look at this anymore so you can
fill it out but why should you over here
comments and ratings the default option
is to hold potentially inappropriate
comments you can set this to another
setting for example allow all comments
or hold potentially inappropriate
comments that was the default or
hold all comments for review if you do
that by the way also for hold
potentially inappropriate comments there
is a section on YouTube for managing the
comments and there is a tab sheet that
says "held for review" if a comment is
held for review it is in that tab when I
enable all comments for example I can
say how do I want to display those
comments the top so the most important
the most upvoted comment is on top
or do I want to to display the newest
show how many viewers like and dislike
the video to prevent dislike bombs
uncheck this option the viewers can see
the amount of upvotes or downvotes or
thumbs up or thumbs down if this is is
checked we have all gone through all the
options in this first step of the
details pane now let's click on next it
will go to monetization if you have
monetization enabled on your channel you
have this this step the monetization
step you can select if you want to
enable or disable monetization I'm going
to enable monetization for this video
you can specify which ads you want to
show display ads those are the ads on
the side of the video watch page
you can't disable that even if you want
to then the overlay ads the little text
ad on the bottom of your video you
probably will recognize it maybe it's
even the bottom of this video sponsored
cards the cards are the informational
cards that little "i" icon that
sometimes pop up at top right corner of
your video you can allow sponsors to
sponsor those cards to make some money
skippable video ads, the ads that
are three seconds or so long and then
you can skip but there are also non skippable ads this hurts your viewer's
experience a little bit but you'll earn more from those ads. location of
the video ads my video is shorter
than 10 minutes so I can't enable this
right now because only videos longer
than 10 minutes are eligible for ads
during the video you can check if you
want to show ads before the video during
the video and you can even place them
manually YouTube does a pretty good
recognition of where it should place the
ads you can also check after video the
next tab is ad suitability when you have
enabled monetization there is a tab over
here that says ad suitability and with ad
suitability you need to specify
self-certify what your video is about
for example do you have inappropriate
language in your video light when I
check that it says safe for ads over
here it's safe for ads over here if you
have strong profanity in your title
thumbnail or in the video then it says
limited ads adult content again you
nudity is absolutely not allowed but is
it romancing kissing then it is allowed
and safe for ads blurred or censored
nudity it's going to get worse and worse and
worse, undo and I click undo here
then it will remove the settings I did
here the same for violence mid violence
real injury make sure that this self
certification process is correct YouTube
will punish you for not filling this out
correctly let's go to harmful and
dangerous acts specify directly related
content educational hateful content also
not allowed references to marginalized
okay safe for ads but hate is absolutely
not done the firearms be really careful
with firearms sensitive issues if this
does not apply to you at all
check none of the above every video on
this channel is none of the above
okay let's go to video elements you can
add an end screen to your video that
means that your last twenty seconds of
your video you have the ability
to refer users or viewers to other
YouTube videos or playlists for example
or your website for example click Add
over here you can also by the way import
it from another video so if I say
discard changes then I click import from
a video then it will show me a list of
videos when I click on a video over here
for example then it will import my end
screen from my other video this is a
short quick way to make your end screens
I say discard changes I'm going to
create it from scratch and also here
again I have the import video option
also here I have the import video option
so they want you to import from the last
video they have some templates over here
one video one subscribe one playlist one
subscribe one video one subscribe, I
generally will create them from scratch
so I say element over here plus elements
then it asks me which element do I want
to use a video a playlist subscribe
channel link or merchandise a video is
pretty self-explanatory I can specify a
video that I want to show in the end
screen so I can say for example in the
end screen you need to go and watch this
video about YouTube studio for example
that I can do here over here I check
choose a specific video then the screen
will pop up that we had before for
example my definite my definitive guide
to free daws and then it will display
over here and now I can drag and drop it
to to other parts of the screen I don't
need to do that I can also let YouTube
choose for me so I can select best for
viewer
I can also select the most recent
upload then it will update for every
single video that you upload on the
bottom of this screen you can set the
length of that element this is 20 seconds
but I can shorten it by dragging and
dropping again it's very handy that
there is a waveform over here so you see
where a pause is I agree with this
or I can delete it over here and I want
to add an extra element I want to add a
playlist for example then I have the
selection of playlists over here for
example my ultimate tips to Rekordbox
then it will add an extra yeah thumbnail
over here for a playlist and I can again
drag and drop this to over here I can
change that if I want to by clicking on
the pencil icon or you can click this
screen away also I can add a subscribe
then it adds a channel icon from my
channel over here and if a user hovers
over that it displays that icon to
subscribe I can also add a channel so I
have one for my own channel that is the
last one I added but I can also search
for a specific channel over here so if I
want to add Peter McKinnon then I can
add a icon of Peter McKinnon over here
make sure that by the way these elements
don't overlap because that is impossible
follow Peter but if it overlaps with
video over here then it displays red so
make sure that that doesn't happen
because otherwise you can't save I can
delete these elements because there is
only a limited amount of elements you
can add to the screen 4 I believe I
click plus icon again link I can link to
my own website for example Dexxter Clark by
the way in order for this to work you
need to specify a website and you can
only specify one website that is
approved click apply and it will add an
icon over here and the last one is
merchandise I can display the
merchandise that I have specified in
YouTube studio
and then it will display over here my
video is private and it won't display on
private videos I say save
now I have an end screen but I want
also to add cards I have to say this is
the old card editor, cards are  those
little "i" icons in the top right corner
of your video I can say add and I can
add those cards this is an old editor
that is going away soon and you can
specify in the video where you want to
place those cards and you can specify a
video for example this video over here
and I say create card and now it will
display when I rewind a little bit that
"i" icon over here I suspect that YouTube
will replace this section of YouTube
very very soon so I won't go into much
detail here return to YouTube studio if
you're finished this is automatically
saved by the way return to YouTube Studio
you now it has a check mark over here
and I click next for the last page in
this upload process here you can set the
visibility status of your video private
so it's only available visible to me and
all the guys that I allow to my channel
then there is unlisted over here
unlisted everybody can see the video if
they have the URL but it isn't
searchable on YouTube search and it
isn't searchable on Google over here
public then it will release on YouTube
publicly so everybody can see it
everybody can search it on YouTube I
would recommend you to upload always as
private because after your video has
finished uploading and processing it is
only available in the lowest resolutions
but when I release immediately after the
video is uploaded then only the lowest
resolution quality of the video is
available and the viewers that click
immediately on that video only have
those
lower resolutions what I would recommend
this private and schedule it and
schedule you can do over here with
scheduled videos you can flip the status
from private to public at a certain
point you can't do that with unlisted
videos if I click schedule then I can
supply a date and a time that I want to
flip the status from private to public I
can also set a premiere and that
premiere function was also available
here on save and publish
if I set public and set it as instant
premiere and a premiere is a combination
of a livestream and a video viewers
can't skip in the video for example and
there is a countdown timer before the
video starts you can set a premiere also
in save and publish and if I have this
on public set on instant premiere and I
hit publish now then the video will go
live and everybody on my YouTube channel
will get a message hey there is a new
video in this case I'm going to set it
to private and I click Save. this is only
the upload part but there's a whole
video administration system called
YouTube Studio check out my step-by-step
guide right here. if you just start or
thinking about starting a YouTube
channel you should definitely check out
my ultimate beginner's guide right here
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