Add end screens to videos

Terminate screens can be added to the final v–20 seconds of a video. Yous can utilize them to promote other videos, encourage viewers to subscribe, and more. You tin can add up to four elements to your end screen for videos with standard 16:9 aspect ratio. Other aspect ratios may have a lower limit.

Note:

  • Your video has to be at least 25 seconds long to have an cease screen.
  • Other interactive elements, like card teasers and video watermarks, are suppressed during the stop screen.
  • Stop screens aren't bachelor for videos gear up equally made for kids, in the YouTube music app, flash videos, mobile web, or 360 videos.

Add together an cease screen

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Content.
  3. Click the championship or thumbnail of the video you'd like to edit.
  4. From the left carte du jour, select Editor.
  5. Select End screens and select the element you want to add:
    • Apply template: Templates comprise groupings of elements that y'all tin customize to create an end screen.
    • Video: Feature your most 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 y'all're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all tin link to an external website.
    • Note: Brand certain your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations tin effect in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.
    • Merchandise: Feature 1 item from your merchandise.

  half-dozen. Click SAVE.

More than options

Customize an cease screen

Elements are the pieces of content that you add together to your end screen. There are many means to customize the elements in your end screen. You can apply templates, change the timing of your elements, and make up one's mind where elements should show on your video.

Apply a template

Templates contain groupings of elements that yous can customize to create an end screen.

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Content.
  3. Click the video you lot'd like to edit.
  4. From the left bill of fare, select Editor.
  5. Click Add chemical elementAdd to playlist to apply your template.
  6. Click SAVE.

Remove element blazon

Change element timing

Y'all can choose when you'd similar your end screen elements to show in your video. End screen elements volition evidence at the same time by default. You can customize private elements to bear witness at dissimilar times.

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

You can also change the timing of your finish screen element by using the arrows to drag it on the end screen row of the Editor.

Alter element placement

  1. Select an element by clicking information technology in the end screen row of the Editor.
  2. In the video histrion, elevate the element to the desired position.
  3. ClickSalve.

Tip: Click the grid in the player to show a grid over the video preview. You tin can also choose "Snap to grid" and "Snap to chemical element" for help with placing your elements.

Preview your end screen

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

What your end screen can evidence

Elements are the pieces of content that you add together to your terminate screen. Some elements can exist expanded or hovered over to give more than info. Y'all can add up to four elements in your finish screen for videos with standard sixteen:ix attribute ratio. Other attribute ratios may take a lower limit.

Elements can feature different types of content:

  • Video or playlist:
    • Feature your most recently uploaded video.
    • Let YouTube to select a video from your aqueduct to all-time suit the viewer
    • Pick whatever video or playlist (public or unlisted) from your or any other channel.
  • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your aqueduct.
  • Channel: Promote some other aqueduct with a custom message.
  • External websites: If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, y'all can link to an external website.

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

All-time practices for creating terminate screens

  • Characteristic elements that are relevant to the video.
  • Encourage viewers to click using calls to activeness for different end screen elements.
  • If yous employ a custom image, nosotros recommend using an image that'southward at least 300 x 300 pixel width.
  • Make sure you leave plenty space and fourth dimension at the end of the video for an end screen. Make sure you consider the video's concluding twenty seconds when editing it.
  • Consider timing dissimilar stop screen elements to show at different times.

Check end screen metrics

Yous can check the performance of your terminate screens on the Engagement tab of YouTube Analytics.

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

If you lot're viewing analytics for your entire aqueduct:

  • To compare the success of different element types, use the "Top end screen element types" card.
  • To see videos with end screens that viewers clicked the well-nigh, use the "Superlative videos past end screen" card.

If you're viewing analytics for a specific video:

  • To encounter how often viewers click your end screen elements, employ the "End screen element click rate" card.

End screen requirements for viewers

Viewers tin 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 Flash videos.
  • In 360 videos.

Stop screens and videos ready equally fabricated for kids

End screens aren't available for videos fix as made for kids.

Even if you previously added an end screen to your video, viewers won't encounter end screens when your audition is set up as fabricated for kids.

Larn more about what happens when your video is set as fabricated for kids.

Notation: Your end screen may non always show, or may evidence differently than designed. This deviation happens equally we improve terminate screens based on operation, viewer behavior, device, and context.

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