Add cease screens to videos

End screens can be added to the terminal 5–20 seconds of a video. You tin utilize them to promote other videos, encourage viewers to subscribe, and more. You tin add together upwardly to 4 elements to your cease screen for videos with standard 16:9 attribute ratio. Other aspect ratios may take a lower limit.

Annotation:

  • Your video has to exist at least 25 seconds long to have an terminate screen.
  • Other interactive elements, similar card teasers and video watermarks, are suppressed during the terminate screen.
  • End screens aren't available for videos set equally made for kids, in the YouTube music app, wink videos, mobile spider web, or 360 videos.

Add an end screen

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte, select Content.
  3. Click the title or thumbnail of the video y'all'd similar to edit.
  4. From the left menu, select Editor.
  5. Select End screens and select the element you lot want to add:
    • Apply template: Templates contain groupings of elements that you can customize to create an end screen.
    • Video: Characteristic your almost recent upload, best for viewer, or a specific video.
    • Playlist: Display a public YouTube playlist.
    • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your channel.
    • Channel: Promote another channel with a custom message.
    • Link: If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can link to an external website.
    • Note: Brand sure your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Customs Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations can event in bill of fare or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.
    • Merchandise: Feature one item from your trade.

  half dozen. Click Salve.

More than options

Customize an stop screen

Elements are the pieces of content that y'all add to your stop screen. In that location are many ways to customize the elements in your terminate screen. You can apply templates, modify the timing of your elements, and make up one's mind where elements should evidence on your video.

Apply a template

Templates incorporate groupings of elements that you tin can customize to create an stop screen.

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Click the video you'd like to edit.
  4. From the left carte du jour, select Editor.
  5. Click Add together elementAdd to playlist to apply your template.
  6. Click SAVE.

Remove element blazon

Change chemical element timing

You lot can choose when you'd like your terminate screen elements to show in your video. End screen elements will bear witness at the aforementioned time by default. You can customize private elements to show at different times.

  1. Select an element by clicking it in the terminate screen row of the Editor.
  2. To the left of your video, find the boxes containing end screen time.
  3. Update the start time or end time of the element.
  4. ClickRelieve.

You can as well alter the timing of your finish screen chemical element by using the arrows to drag it on the finish screen row of the Editor.

Change element placement

  1. Select an chemical element past clicking it in the end screen row of the Editor.
  2. In the video actor, drag the element to the desired position.
  3. ClickSave.

Tip: Click the filigree in the actor to testify a filigree over the video preview. You lot can also choose "Snap to filigree" and "Snap to element" for help with placing your elements.

Preview your end screen

To see how your end screen looks while your video is playing, select the play button  on the video player.

What your finish screen can show

Elements are the pieces of content that you add to your end screen. Some elements can exist expanded or hovered over to give more info. You can add up to four elements in your end screen for videos with standard 16:9 attribute ratio. Other aspect ratios may have a lower limit.

Elements tin feature different types of content:

  • Video or playlist:
    • Characteristic your nigh recently uploaded video.
    • Allow YouTube to select a video from your channel to best arrange the viewer
    • Pick any video or playlist (public or unlisted) from your or any other channel.
  • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your channel.
  • Channel: Promote some other aqueduct with a custom message.
  • External websites: If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin link to an external website.

Note: Brand sure your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations tin can result in carte du jour or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.

Best practices for creating finish screens

  • Feature elements that are relevant to the video.
  • Encourage viewers to click using calls to activity for different end screen elements.
  • If you lot use a custom image, nosotros recommend using an image that'southward at least 300 x 300 pixel width.
  • Make sure you leave enough infinite and time at the terminate of the video for an end screen. Brand sure you consider the video's last 20 seconds when editing it.
  • Consider timing different end screen elements to show at different times.

Check end screen metrics

You tin check the performance of your end screens on the Date tab of YouTube Analytics.

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte du jour, select Analytics.
  3. From the elevation menu, select Engagement.

If you're viewing analytics for your entire aqueduct:

  • To compare the success of different element types, use the "Meridian cease screen element types" card.
  • To encounter videos with cease screens that viewers clicked the most, use the "Pinnacle videos by end screen" card.

If you're viewing analytics for a specific video:

  • To see how ofttimes viewers click your terminate screen elements, use the "End screen element click rate" card.

End screen requirements for viewers

Viewers can't see your end screens in these places:

  • On mobile web (exception: iPad mobile web).
  • In the YouTube Music or YouTube Kids apps.
  • In Wink videos.
  • In 360 videos.

Stop screens and videos set as fabricated for kids

Terminate screens aren't available for videos ready equally made for kids.

Fifty-fifty if y'all previously added an end screen to your video, viewers won't encounter end screens when your audience is ready as fabricated for kids.

Acquire more than virtually what happens when your video is set as fabricated for kids.

Annotation: Your cease screen may non always show, or may show differently than designed. This difference happens as we improve end screens based on performance, viewer beliefs, device, and context.

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