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title: 'How To *CORRECTLY* Upload Videos on YouTube In Oct 2025'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=5blrC2cp4dM'
video_id: '5blrC2cp4dM'
date: 2026-08-18
duration_sec: 598
channel: 'Romayroh'
---

# How To *CORRECTLY* Upload Videos on YouTube In Oct 2025

> Source: [How To *CORRECTLY* Upload Videos on YouTube In Oct 2025](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5blrC2cp4dM)

## Summary

This video provides a step-by-step guide to uploading videos on YouTube, emphasizing a two-phase approach: repetitive settings for every upload and creative optimization based on successful competitors. The creator shares his personal workflow, including specific settings like unlisted visibility and using competitor data for titles, thumbnails, descriptions, and tags.

### Key Points

- **Two-Phase Upload Process** [00:01] — The upload process is divided into phase one (repetitive step-by-step settings) and phase two (creative aspects like molding the video to a successful competitor's video).
- **Uploading and Visibility Settings** [00:26] — Click 'Create' and 'Upload videos' to be redirected to YouTube Studio. Select or drag-and-drop the video file. Set visibility to 'Unlisted' to avoid going public without thumbnails and to allow YouTube to analyze the video for ad limitations.
- **Details and Content Settings** [01:21] — Scroll down in details and select 'No, it's not made for kids' (unless applicable). Also, click 'No' for altered content unless AI was used for scripting, audio, or thumbnails.
- **Phase Two: Modeling Competitors** [02:10] — After upload, click 'Details' to start phase two. Search for a successful competitor's video on the same topic, copy its title, and use ChatGPT to reword it for your video.
- **Thumbnail and Description Strategy** [03:03] — Hire a freelancer to create a similar thumbnail to the competitor's. For descriptions, copy the first two paragraphs of your script for SEO targeting, as they should contain high-ranking keywords.
- **Playlists, End Screens, and Cards** [04:20] — Playlists may not significantly boost views. End screens can be set to recommend a video and subscribe button in the last 7 seconds. Cards can be added at a specific time to promote another video.
- **Tags from Competitors** [06:03] — Use tools like Vid IQ or Vid Ninjas to see competitor tags. Copy and paste them into your tags section, filling up to the 500-character limit. Use Google Trends for keyword research.
- **Category and Publishing** [07:22] — The category doesn't significantly affect performance anymore. If unsure, ask ChatGPT. Finally, change visibility from 'Unlisted' to 'Public' and click 'Publish'.
- **Importance of Competitor Blueprint** [08:04] — Every video should be structured based on a successful competitor's video as a proven blueprint. This is especially important when starting a new channel.

### Conclusion

The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of using a successful competitor's video as a blueprint for every upload, especially for new channels. It also promotes the creator's school community for more in-depth tutorials and resources.

## Transcript

videos, there are two phases. Phase one is the repetitive step by step. This never changes. This is just repeating the same settings on your uploads every into the creative aspect of it, which I'll break down later in this video. But
for now, let's start with phase one. So, I'm in the YouTube homepage here. Now, to upload a video, if you don't know, what you want to do is click create on obviously going to click on upload
to be automatically redirected to YouTube Studio. But anyways, from here, video. You can just click on select files and then just selecting the video is drag and drop the video. Now, once you do that, you're going to see this.
visibility. And you want to make sure that it's set to unlisted. You want to make sure that the black dot is on unlisted. Okay? Not public, not private. multiple reasons. Number one, if you have it set to public, then it's
obviously going to automatically go public without you having thumbnails, have it on private instead of unlisted, YouTube won't be able to analyze your video, which means you won't know if you're limited on ads or if there's any
unlisted is just the best practice, do that, you want to go back to details. I never do anything to the title or the description of the video. But what I do is I scroll all the way down and make
sure that no, it's not made for kids is selected. Of course, if you're making Roblox videos, Minecraft videos, toy reviews, and yes, of course, you can going to set it to no, obviously. Scrolling down a little bit more, you're
going to see altered content. I always click on no because I don't use AI for scripting and audio, but when it comes to like thumbnails or the actual generate any of that. But if you did,
go to video elements. This is more of like a phase two thing. I always skip it. For checks, I always want to take a look at that visibility. Again, make can click on save. And now, we're just going to leave it. We're going to ignore
all of this. We're just going to click on close. And there we go. Now, the video is being analyzed by YouTube. It's not public. It's not private. It's just there. Okay. And it was very simple. So, now that we're here, we can start with
things to your video. So, from here, we're going to click on details. this little pencil under your video. And now we can start with phase two. Phase two is essentially just molding your video to a successful competitor's video. For
example, if the title of my video is editing tutorial, I'm going to open another YouTube tab and I'm going to search up editing tutorial. From here, I can see what the best performing video was. This one was posted a year ago and
it has 4.2 million views. So, his title is how to edit so good your viewers get addicted to your videos. So, what we're going to do is copy this title. Then I'm going to open up chat GPT. I'm going to give it the command to reward the title.
I like the fourth title that it gave me. So I'm going to copy that and I'm going to put it in the title of my video. Now for the thumbnail, we want to do the hire a freelancer to create a thumbnail that is very similar to his or you
thumbnail tutorial, so we're going to skip that step. But but let's go ahead uh thumbnail. So anyways, after the title is there, we can scroll down and description. Now, if you're making automation videos or something with a
script, it's not necessarily you talking like I am right now. What you can do is just grab the script of your video and put the first two paragraphs on here. Now, let me tell you why I do this. The way descriptions work is very SEO
description of this video, you can see that it's very literal. It's pretty much just a recap of everything that I said. And sometimes in some videos what I do is I just copy paste the first two paragraphs of my script. That's because
if the goal is SEO targeting, which means using high ranking keywords, the first two paragraphs of your script should already explain exactly what your every single keyword. If it doesn't,
with your scripting. But anyways, that's what you want to do for the description. the upload file box here for your uploading a video. Nothing really changes for this. I'm just going to drag
and drop a random thumbnail from my desktop and it's this one here. So, scroll down, we can see the option of playlist. A lot of people like to mess creating playlists gives you a ton of views. I didn't really see much
success with that. With my celebrity news YouTube channel that has over 200 think less than 100k viewers really clicked on on the uh playlist. So, I So, I'm just going to ignore it. Now, scrolling down, we do have end screens
and cards. I kind of like to ignore end screens as well. You know, I'm not very traditional like these other guys. I think it's pretty useless, especially people actually make it to the end, and
clicks on the end screen. But hey, it. You know, I'll show you how to do little pencil icon. You're going to see You're going to see this black line with a little black circle. You're going to
mouse icon changes. You're going to click and drag it all the way to the video. And we can see the timelines here. So, we're going to leave it to the last 7 seconds. And we're going to click on one of these. How do we want it? Do
we want to promote a video and a subscribe button at the top like so? Do we want to do just two videos? They look like this. You can also just hover over them around, you know, whatever you want. But I think the best way to go
about it is to just do the first one where it recommends one of your videos subscribing. So from that you can click moving on to cards. Kind of the same thing. We're going to click on that
little pin. We're going to go grab that little line with the black dots and then drag it to like minute minute 4. And we're just going to click on video playlist or channel whatever it is that you want to promote. So for me I'm just
going to do video. I'm going to click on that and then choose a random one, which I'm going to do this one here. And that's it. Now, when a viewer makes it going to see this appear on the right side of their screen. From here, you can
down, we're going to leave everything as is, and we're going to go to tags. This competitor's videos. So, we're going to go back to the other tab. We're going to you want to have Vid IQ or Vid Ninjas installed. But for this example, I'm
going to show you guys Vid Ninjas. So from here we can see what tags they used on Google Trends and search up what the best keywords are for a tutorial on editing. You can just take the tags from a video that already performed. So we
can see he used YouTube creator video editing, retention editing, all kinds of tags, right? So using Vid Ninjas, I can just go down here to the bottom and click on the little copy to clipboard. We would go back to our YouTube studio
and right where it says add tag, we're going to click on that and we're just going to paste. And look at that. Then from here, we just click on save. So the tags. And from here, you can go to other competitors videos, right? It
doesn't have to be just this one. We can click on this guy, see what tags he used, and copy paste them into our tags tab. And the trick is that you want to fill out as much as possible. As you can see here at the bottom, I only have 395
of 500. So I can definitely add more tags to this. But scrolling down, we are certification. That's because YouTube automatically identifies what language useless. But anyways, yeah, we're going to keep scrolling down to category,
Now, this is a very common question. What category is my YouTube channel in? problem that people have with this is that they don't see the option that kind There's education, comedy, cars, and vehicles, but every now and then someone
know, none of those really apply. Well, it's an easy fix. You can just go on Chad GBT and ask it what it would be considered. And if that doesn't work, it doesn't matter what it is. It's kind of like subscribers, you know, the category
your video's performance anymore. And it hasn't for some time now. I would say about 3 years. But yeah, besides that, that's pretty much it. You know, from down arrow next to unlisted, click on public, and then click publish on the
a YouTube video. But something very important that I want to mention and I like YouTube. The video that I made needed to be structured by a every video that you make, you need to have a successful competitor's video.
Like there has to be a source, you know, a reason for it, a proven blueprint that that video title works. You know, before you put a video in production or or if competitor's video. That's what you need to do for every single YouTube channel
that you're going to do, especially when starting off. That's how you want to future, once you get a little bit more experienced, then you can start, you the beginning, you want to mold everything like your competitors. Now,
YouTube a little bit more serious, you can click the link in my description or that's going to take you to my school community. For those of you that don't forget to like and subscribe, and I'll see you guys next time. But for those of
inside of my school community. The first thing you get is the blueprint step by whatever. It just kind of shows you how to put everything in order, especially for automation channels. But in the tutorial vault, this is where the entire
course is. And this is over 60 videos where I give you step-by-step tutorials channels and how I scaled them to over a million dollars. You also get a list of competitors YouTube channels. You also get a link to pre-made thumbnail PGs for
and drop and your thumbnail structure is pretty much complete. You also get free background music. I paid a couple of music producers to make copyright music use it. You can also hire editors, but the best part is that I go live two
speak with you guys directly, answer any questions, review your channels, all where I go into the wins tab and show you guys like testimonials and don't really feel like promoting right now. So, have a good day. I want to go get
So, have a good day. I want to go get coffee.