There are many interesting YouTube videos every day. Photographing a video, editing it, and uploading it to YouTube becomes a part of many people’s life.
However, lots of people report that they can’t upload videos to YouTube. Why does the issue happen? There are 4 possible reasons and you can check which of them leads to this issue.
Why Can’t Upload Videos to YouTube?
There are 4 possible reasons for failing to upload videos to YouTube. Check them one by one.
- The internet connection is poor.
- The video you try to upload is too larger.
- The video resolution is high.
- You run into a heavy uploads traffic when uploading videos to YouTube.
# 1: Poor Internet Connection
When you can’t upload videos to YouTube, you should check whether the poor internet connection is the culprit.
If you want to test the internet speed, you can go to Google Chrome and search for internet test speed and then click the RUN SPEED TEST button.
After clicking, the testing process begins. In the process, you will see an estimate of the megabits per second your connection. After a few seconds, a window shows you the testing result, including the download speed, upload speed, and a qualitative evaluation of the metric.
If the testing result shows that your internet connection is slow, please read the post that shows you try to increase upload speed and then try to uplaod your videos to YouTube again.
# 2: Large Size of the Video
If you still can’t upload videos to YouTube after increasing the upload speed, it is possible that the size of your video is too large. So, check the size of your video that you want to upload to YouTube.
Why can’t you upload a large size of video to YouTube? The reason is that there is an upload limit on the platform.
Note that the upload limit is not for every YouTube creators. If your YouTube account has been verified, a YouTube video can be upload to 12 hours long (as much as 128GB); if not, you are supported to upload a video that is 15 minutes or less (as much as 2GB).
If your account has not been verified, in this situation, you have two choices. One is to get your account verified immediately and the detailed tutorial is offered in the following recommended article.
