# YouTube

> Upload videos and Shorts to your YouTube channel.

## Connect

Choose **YouTube** under **Settings → Channels → Connect** and sign in with the Google account that owns the channel.

## What you can post

- **A video.** Every YouTube post is one video, which becomes the upload. The post's text is the description.
- **A Short**: choose the **Short** format for a vertical video short enough to be one.

## Options

- **Title**, up to 100 characters.
- **Privacy**: public, unlisted or private.
- **Category** and **tags**.
- **Made for kids**: YouTube requires you to say whether it is.
- **Altered or synthetic content**: YouTube's label for realistic video made or changed with AI.

## Analytics

Views, likes and comments per video, and subscriber counts. YouTube's policies only let apps keep statistics they
re-check regularly, so YouTube numbers are refreshed every three weeks for as long as they're kept.

## Limits

| Limit                     | Value                                                                         |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Text                      | 5,000 characters                                                              |
| Threads                   | No                                                                            |
| Attachments               | Up to 1 per post, at least one is required                                    |
| Video                     | Up to 953.7 MB, up to 12 h long, one video per post, without images beside it |
| GIF search                | No                                                                            |
| File types                | mp4, quicktime, webm                                                          |
| Formats                   | Post, Short                                                                   |
| Polls                     | No                                                                            |
| Quote posts               | No                                                                            |
| Reply to an existing post | No                                                                            |
| Link previews             | No                                                                            |
| Auto-engagement           | No                                                                            |
| AI-generated label        | Yes                                                                           |

## Good to know

- **Hashtags**: the first three in the description show above the title. Over 60 and YouTube ignores them all.
- **Processing**: YouTube processes uploads after accepting them, so a long video can take a while to go live.