Schedule your content on YouTube

With Metricool, you can schedule your videos to go live on your YouTube channel whenever you want.

✏️ Key points

Video types:
- Standard videos: Over 60 seconds. Horizontal format.
- Shorts: Up to 3 minutes. Vertical or square format.

⚠️ We recommend not pushing Shorts to the 2:59 min limit, as YouTube might increase the time on import and publish it as a standard video.

Posting limits:
- FREE: up to 10 posts every 24 hours
- PREMIUM: up to 20 posts every 24 hours

If you hit the limit, you’ll need to wait 24 hours from your 10th or 20th post (depending on your plan). To check if you can publish, count the posts from the past 24 hours—if it’s under the limit, you’re good to go.

Character limit: 5000 per post.
Video thumbnail: Recommended size 1280x720px.
First comment: You can add it to both long videos and Shorts.

How to create a YouTube post

To schedule a YouTube video from Metricool, go to the Planning tab and follow these steps:

Click "+ Create new post" and select YouTube.
Add the text to include a description. (Descriptions for YouTube Shorts and YouTube Videos mobile version won’t preview here, but will be included in your post.)
Upload the video. Remember:
Standard video: 60+ seconds, horizontal.
Shorts: up to 3 minutes, vertical or square.

Complete YouTube settings:
Title: Max 100 characters.
Audience settings: specify if the video is made for kids.
Privacy settings: choose between Public, Unlisted, Private (you can adjust privacy on YouTube after publishing).
Category: pick the right category for your content.
Tags: add tags to improve searchability and ranking.

Choose the publish date and time, then save.

Done! Metricool takes care of the rest.

Video Specs

Format: MP4 or MOV
Size: up to 500 MB
Shorts: Up to 3 minutes, vertical or square format.
Standard videos: Over 60 seconds, horizontal format.

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Updated on: 16/05/2025