Upload videos longer than 15 minutes

Increment your video length limit

By default, yous tin upload videos that are upwards to xv minutes long. Verified accounts tin upload videos longer than 15 minutes.

To verify your Google Account:

  1. On a computer, go to https://www.youtube.com/verify.
  2. Follow the steps to verify your Google Account. You can choose to get a verification code through a text message on a mobile device or an automated phonation phone call.

Make certain you're using an up-to-date version of your browser to upload files greater than 20 GB.

Maximum upload size

The maximum file size you tin upload is 256 GB or 12 hours, whichever is less. We've changed the limits on uploads in the by, and so you may see older videos that are longer than 12 hours.

Troubleshoot common issues

I verified my account but my video still won't play.

After you verify your account, you'll need to upload your video again:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. Select CREATE  and upload your video again.

I don't know whether I verified my account nevertheless.

To bank check if y'all've already verified your Google Business relationship, become to Feature eligibility. If you've verified your account, you lot'll see "Enabled" in the Features that require phone verification box.

I already verified my account only I can't upload long videos.

My video is larger than 256 GB.

If your video is larger than 256 GB, endeavour compressing your video in a video editing software before uploading it to YouTube. Compressing will reduce your video file size while maintaining the video quality. One common way to compress a video for YouTube is to encode it using the H.264 codec.

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