 Hi everybody. So I'm about to upload a YouTube video. So I figured I might as well walk you through how I upload a YouTube video I usually do this from my computer because I usually use zoom to record my most of my videos Yeah, and even if I use my phone to record my my portrait mode videos I My phone uploads it to Google photos and then I download it on my computer from Google photos to my computer And I upload it anyway, so I'm about to let me just go ahead and show you how I upload a YouTube video So first thing I do is I go to YouTube Com slash upload. Did you know that? Okay YouTube comm slash Com slash upload there you go and this automatically brings you into your account now You might want to check here look at your yourself in the top right if you're not sure you can exit out Just to make sure you're in the right place The right account anyway, you might have various accounts You might need to switch accounts, but make sure it's the correct one and you can also just click create from YouTube studio That's the same thing YouTube comm slash upload or click create. Okay I'm just gonna click create and then click upload video. This is this is this is where YouTube comm slash upload brings us All right, let's go to select files and I'm gonna select the one that I just made It's this one double-click now People are gonna say well George you're supposed to name the video file because somehow that helps no Over the years like I said, I've uploaded almost 2,000 videos to YouTube And I have not noticed a single lick of difference with the file name Versus non file name The video title obviously is extremely important, but the file name itself has not mattered for visibility as far as I can tell So anyway, let's let's go the the title obviously is very important I talked about Titling and descriptions in other segments. I just wanted to walk you through the rest of the typical Uploading settings. So I'm just gonna quickly name this right now. I'm gonna change it later, but I'm gonna say Create urgently and this is literally what I my my My videos about today. So and then no notice that the thumbnail is still processing and What I often do if I'm gonna select one of the thumbnails I'll often go through the rest of the process first and then later come back to details to choose a thumbnail in this case I actually created a thumbnail image. So I'm gonna click on upload thumbnail and then I'm going to select the This one here that I already created and there it is But wow, it's pretty fast. They already gave me a thumbnail that I can choose But anyway, I uploaded it if for some reason you want a different one You can always click on the three dots there and click change or I don't know why you would download it because you upload yourself But anyway, maybe in the future when you come back and it's like, oh, I want that image again, but Anyway, so I've done that again. I'll I'll skip the Titling instructions right now and in description instructions These were automatically put in because of my basic info settings on my channel settings basic info You can put in what what the description is and and then of course I can go in and edit What I want on top of the description on top of that basic template info I can delete the template info if I want to or I can put something below it. Anyway, it's it's all it's all optional I'm just for now going to I'll do a deal with that later. Alright, so playlists. This is important as well I'll probably do a separate segment about playlists But I do try to put my videos into playlists where I can you know where I can think of oh, that's a relevant one So this one is definitely about creating and I have named my playlist with my main playlists I have had a gk in the front So it makes it makes it easy for me to type and find it again because I have so many playlists. So Consistent creating. I'm just gonna add that one. You can do multiple playlists A video can go on multiple playlists if you want it to but I'm just gonna for this case. I'm gonna just add one. Okay No, it's not made for kids. We talked about that in the different video But made for kids means it goes through additional legal requirements so that it's like, you know legally viewable to kids We are making videos for adults not adult entertainment, right? But maybe some of you I don't know But no anyway, please do not do yes made for kids unless you want the additional compliance issues that come with that So no, it's not made for kids unless you know unless you are but no, it's not me for kids most of us Age restriction again. Don't don't don't do that. I'm gonna move myself over to the middle here Or to the right I guess over here Whatever, okay. I'll move it myself over here for now and then click show more Okay, I'm gonna do that and I scroll down my video contains paid promotion. Okay, so this is a tricky one You know what I'm not gonna talk about that right now I'm gonna skip that do that in separate video, but I usually don't keep it checked allow automatic chapters I usually keep it checked I know there are you know, there's advice out there that don't don't don't make it automatic They they do a poor job of it, but I don't know I mean AI is gonna get better I think it's it does it doesn't do as good of a job as if you put in chapters yourself But I'm I always keep it checked for now I can always remove it later if I want to make my own chapter So I keep it checked in case in case it ends up being pretty good in case they end up doing it I always uncheck automatic places unless I literally am making a video where I'm traveling somewhere And I don't mind YouTube automatically tagging the restaurant I'm in front of or the the landmark I'm in front of but most of us usually just make make videos In our neighborhood right or in our home. We don't want YouTube to tag certain neighborhood landmarks or whatever. So uncheck that Because I have had weird taggings on my thing based on automatic places, and it was really weird It was featuring some other YouTube video YouTube channel that had a place on Google Maps or whatever anyway Automatic concepts. I keep that checked. It's still an experimental thing But and some people will complain that all YouTube doesn't really understand concepts And anyway, I'm keeping a check for now because I'm interested in what happens tags. Do not matter anymore I'm gonna skip this for now Except for if YouTube frequently in in the subtitles misspells a word that you say or a name that you say Like George Cowell for example those do COW. So I always put George Cowell in there as a tag This is also set in the channel settings area. Anyway, I'll skip that for now, but it does not matter for visibility It's really more for like the subtitle Spelling correctly. Anyway, let me keep going language and captions These things I usually keep default So just leave it at that. I think I made a video about those channel settings elsewhere. This all comes from the channel defaults Recording date and location. I usually keep this blank. It doesn't really matter unless yeah, I don't anyway I'm gonna skip this for now. It really doesn't matter in my experience License distribution. I usually keep it on creative commons I Recommend that because it allows other people to use your videos I hope you're okay with that if other people want to feature a clip of your video Would you be okay with that if you are keep it at creative commons? If you for some reason aren't then you got to make it standard YouTube license But I prefer creative commons. So allow embedding I don't see why not if someone wants to embed my video on their channel or on their website. Oh great wonderful, right? The only case yeah, I'm just gonna skip this for now. I think by default. It's fine Publish okay. This is important publish the subscriptions feed and notify subscribers If this is one of my main videos that I want that I think is relevant for most of my subscribers I keep it checked Sometimes I make YouTube videos that I want to be found by search But I think most of my subscribers probably I don't care that they see it for example Most most my videos are about authentic business authentic marketing Sometimes I make tech tutorials that I don't really want to notify my whole subscriber base Hey, here's a tech tutorial. It's not relevant to my overall topic or I often I've been uploading videos about spiritual growth onto my YouTube channel. I probably should do a separate YouTube channel That's a separate topic we can talk about different segment, but I've been uploading to my same YouTube channel So I I uncheck it when it's a tech tutorial or a spiritual video that is not Relevant to most of my subscribers not relevant to my business that I'm building. I will uncheck that so that they don't get a Notification they might still see it in the home feed They can watch it if they're like a like a big fan They can watch my other videos, but most of them won't be bothered by this But if it's a main video like this one where it's related to my business Related to the topics that are related to my business. I'm not selling anything in this video But anyway, I do want most of my subscribers to know to be notified that this exists if they're if they're getting notifications on my channel shorts remixing I don't see why not Basically allowing other people to create short videos that are they take clips of your video. I mean gosh great They want if they if they like if they like my stuff enough anyway, I say allow category I have found Most of us are probably just people and blogs honestly You can try anything else, but you can basically go to some of these Anyway, I'm gonna skip this. This is gonna get too complicated Basically, it doesn't matter that much. It doesn't I haven't noticed any difference when I change the category So I'm gonna say just keep people and blogs. Most of us are are are fit in that category. Just just fine Comments and ratings on I don't see why not unless someone is a politician or they're really popular And they get trolls or whatever comment moderation will skip this This is for most of us just on and none is just fine. Okay, it's better that way Sort by top. It's just fine. Show how many viewers just fine Skip the fundraising thing. That's that's fine. Let's move on to the next. Let's click next here Okay monetization. I usually select off when I select on is After the fact that my video is going viral. It's getting thousands of views or tens of thousands of views I'll come back and and cut I'll come back to this the settings of this the video and I'll turn on monetization Because then I'll actually start to make money. But before your video gets to like Tens of tens of thousands of views the monetization is a few dollars It's like is it really worth like bothering your your viewer with ads for a few dollars? No So it's like once gets tens of thousands of views or definitely hundreds of thousands of views You want to turn on monetization because now you're gonna be earning hundreds of dollars for that video So I would say off. Don't bother your your viewers with ads for most of your videos probably Let's click next All right now This is also helpful Skip subtitles for now because YouTube has its own subtitle generation that takes about Half an hour at least sometimes they take several hours before they could generate it's all done automatically in the background You don't have to do anything. Okay music license again Most of us aren't playing music in our videos if you are you need to add music license because Otherwise you'll get your video will get taken down Skip the tag products for now We'll talk about that in some other in some other segment if that's if that's relevant for some of you and screen I think it's important ad cards can be important I will talk about these in separate videos because that's gonna take too long. I'm just gonna show you how I usually upload Yeah, again, I'll address this in a separate video But for me, it's easy because I've done an end screen before if you've done an end screen before that you want to Just keep the same for all your videos and you can click import from video and and then you gotta click it again And I've already done videos like this So for my previous video, it's just similar to this has end screens that I like anyway I will talk about end screen in a separate segment. I just want to show you this is what I do when I upload a video I just import it from the previous one where I have an end screen. I click save and Then there it is it's added. I'm gonna click next and the checks basically. This is about music licensing It doesn't matter for most of us click next and then visibility This is obviously important because it starts off as unlisted which means that nobody will find your video Unless you only the people you send the link to will find your video. That's not That's not good for your visibility, obviously. So setting up public means it's instantly on YouTube now Now I Usually schedule my videos because I have a rhythm of publishing my YouTube videos That's something we could talk about separately if you want to but I I'm gonna schedule this for Monday So I'm just gonna click on Monday and yes, some people say oh, you got to figure out You know use your analytics to see when your viewers are typically viewing and set it to the right time I don't know. I honestly don't think that matters as much as some YouTube advisors are saying because how many times have you seen YouTube videos? Suggested to you that were days ago or even years ago Frequently frequently so it's not as big of a deal as it's they make it out to be I'm just gonna leave it alone because the thing is when it's set for that day You want because that that day is gonna be the date of the video from now on it was published on January 22nd So I want the entire day to have the chance for any of my viewers to see it So the January 22nd day will be the longest possible day I want for the viewership to be possible. So anyway, I'm whatever said says permit We can talk about this in a separate thing. I don't usually do that I think it's kind of a little bit cheesy except for major events. Anyway, I'm gonna I usually don't keep that check And then go ahead and I'm gonna click schedule for you if you if you if you chose if you chose whoops If you chose public it will say publish if you choose schedule It will say schedule just like it says, but it's basically getting your video onto YouTube at the right time or instantly Whichever you want. Okay schedule. There it is Congratulations You can now click on copy video link to share it if you're publishing a video right now on YouTube instead of scheduling it It's probably a good idea to share it with a couple supporters. For example our YouTube course Facebook group And who knows a couple people might view it click like on it Etc. If you have a couple of supporters that you like to you know to celebrate with and send your videos Hey, I would love your support watch the video click like if you do You know any feedback you know that kind of thing if it's instantly published, of course mine is not instantly published I uploaded it, but it's it's not published till January 22nd as it says here So I'm not gonna share it right now So I'm gonna just click close for now and then this will show up in your YouTube studio and under here It says it's scheduled here and monetization is off Etc. Etc. Obviously zero views yet this hasn't been published, but in the future I can come back and edit this the settings if I want to so Super long video. I hope this is helpful though, and if you have any questions comment below I probably have some other segment later in the course about your questions, but feel free to ask below. Thanks