Add terminate screens to videos

Terminate screens can be added to the last v–20 seconds of a video. You lot can apply them to promote other videos, encourage viewers to subscribe, and more. Y'all can add together upward to four elements to your finish screen for videos with standard 16:9 aspect ratio. Other aspect ratios may take a lower limit.

Note:

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

Add together an end screen

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte du jour, select Content.
  3. Click the title or thumbnail of the video you lot'd like to edit.
  4. From the left menu, select Editor.
  5. Select End screens and select the element y'all want to add:
    • Apply template: Templates contain groupings of elements that you can customize to create an end screen.
    • Video: Feature your most contempo upload, all-time 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 yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can link to an external website.
    • Note: Make sure your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Customs Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations can result in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.
    • Merchandise: Feature one item from your merchandise.

  6. Click Salve.

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Customize an end screen

Elements are the pieces of content that you add together to your stop screen. In that location are many means to customize the elements in your terminate screen. You tin can use templates, alter the timing of your elements, and decide where elements should show on your video.

Utilise a template

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

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

Remove element type

Change chemical element timing

You tin choose when you'd similar your cease screen elements to show in your video. End screen elements will show at the aforementioned time by default. You tin customize private elements to show at different times.

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

You tin can also change the timing of your cease screen chemical element past using the arrows to drag it on the end screen row of the Editor.

Alter element placement

  1. Select an element by clicking it in the terminate screen row of the Editor.
  2. In the video player, drag the chemical element to the desired position.
  3. ClickSAVE.

Tip: Click the grid in the player to show a filigree over the video preview. Y'all tin as well cull "Snap to grid" and "Snap to element" for assistance with placing your elements.

Preview your terminate screen

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

What your stop 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 upwardly to 4 elements in your cease screen for videos with standard xvi:nine aspect ratio. Other attribute ratios may have a lower limit.

Elements tin can feature different types of content:

  • Video or playlist:
    • Feature your most recently uploaded video.
    • Allow YouTube to select a video from your channel to best adjust the viewer
    • Pick whatsoever video or playlist (public or unlisted) from your or any other channel.
  • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your aqueduct.
  • Channel: Promote some other channel with a custom message.
  • External websites: If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin 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 result in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.

All-time practices for creating cease screens

  • Feature elements that are relevant to the video.
  • Encourage viewers to click using calls to action for different end screen elements.
  • If you apply a custom image, we recommend using an image that's at least 300 x 300 pixel width.
  • Make certain you exit plenty infinite and fourth dimension at the finish of the video for an end screen. Make sure you consider the video's last 20 seconds when editing it.
  • Consider timing different end screen elements to show at different times.

Check stop screen metrics

You can check the performance of your end screens on the Engagement tab of YouTube Analytics.

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Analytics.
  3. From the top menu, select Engagement.

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

  • To compare the success of different element types, use the "Top end screen element types" carte du jour.
  • To encounter videos with end screens that viewers clicked the most, utilize the "Top videos by end screen" menu.

If you're viewing analytics for a specific video:

  • To run into how often viewers click your stop screen elements, use the "Terminate screen element click charge per unit" card.

Finish screen requirements for viewers

Viewers can't run into your stop screens in these places:

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

End screens and videos fix as fabricated for kids

End screens aren't bachelor for videos set as fabricated for kids.

Fifty-fifty if you previously added an end screen to your video, viewers won't come across end screens when your audition is fix every bit made for kids.

Larn more than well-nigh what happens when your video is set as made for kids.

Note: Your stop screen may not always evidence, or may testify differently than designed. This difference happens equally we better stop screens based on performance, viewer beliefs, device, and context.

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