Add end screens to videos

End screens can be added to the terminal 5–20 seconds of a video. You can use them to promote other videos, encourage viewers to subscribe, and more. You can add upward to four elements to your finish screen for videos with standard 16:9 aspect ratio. Other attribute ratios may have a lower limit.

Note:

  • Your video has to be at least 25 seconds long to have an end screen.
  • Other interactive elements, like bill of fare 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, flash videos, mobile web, or 360 videos.

Add an end screen

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Click the title or thumbnail of the video yous'd similar to edit.
  4. From the left carte, select Editor.
  5. Select Finish screens and select the element you desire to add:
    • Apply template: Templates incorporate groupings of elements that you can customize to create an end screen.
    • Video: Feature your nearly recent upload, best for viewer, or a specific video.
    • Playlist: Display a public YouTube playlist.
    • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your channel.
    • Channel: Promote some other channel with a custom message.
    • Link: If y'all're in the YouTube Partner Program, you can link to an external website.
    • Note: Make certain your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations can upshot in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Business relationship.
    • Merchandise: Feature one particular from your trade.

  6. Click SAVE.

More than options

Customize an cease screen

Elements are the pieces of content that you add to your end screen. There are many ways to customize the elements in your end screen. You can apply templates, change the timing of your elements, and decide where elements should prove on your video.

Utilise a template

Templates comprise groupings of elements that you can customize to create an end screen.

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

Remove chemical element type

Change element timing

Yous can cull when you'd like your cease screen elements to bear witness in your video. End screen elements will bear witness at the same time by default. You can customize individual elements to show at unlike times.

  1. Select an chemical element by clicking information technology in the finish screen row of the Editor.
  2. To the left of your video, find the boxes containing end screen time.
  3. Update the first time or finish fourth dimension of the chemical element.
  4. ClickRelieve.

Yous can also change the timing of your end screen element by using the arrows to elevate it on the end screen row of the Editor.

Change chemical element placement

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

Tip: Click the grid in the role player to show a grid over the video preview. You lot can besides choose "Snap to grid" 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 push  on the video histrion.

What your end screen tin prove

Elements are the pieces of content that y'all add to your end screen. Some elements tin can be expanded or hovered over to give more info. You can add up to four elements in your cease screen for videos with standard 16:nine aspect ratio. Other attribute ratios may take a lower limit.

Elements tin feature different types of content:

  • Video or playlist:
    • Feature your most recently uploaded video.
    • Permit YouTube to select a video from your aqueduct to best suit the viewer
    • Choice any video or playlist (public or unlisted) from your or any other channel.
  • Subscribe: Encourage subscriptions to your aqueduct.
  • Channel: Promote another channel with a custom bulletin.
  • External websites: If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin link to an external website.

Note: Make certain your linked external website complies with our policies, including our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Violations tin can result in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Account.

Best practices for creating end screens

  • Feature elements that are relevant to the video.
  • Encourage viewers to click using calls to action for dissimilar end screen elements.
  • If you employ a custom paradigm, we recommend using an image that's at least 300 x 300 pixel width.
  • Make sure you go out plenty space and time at the stop of the video for an end screen. Make certain you consider the video'south last twenty seconds when editing it.
  • Consider timing different end screen elements to show at different times.

Check stop screen metrics

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Analytics.
  3. From the peak card, select Engagement.

If you're viewing analytics for your entire channel:

  • To compare the success of unlike element types, use the "Top end screen element types" menu.
  • To run across videos with terminate screens that viewers clicked the most, use the "Top videos by stop screen" card.

If yous're viewing analytics for a specific video:

  • To run across how ofttimes viewers click your end screen elements, utilize the "End screen element click rate" card.

End screen requirements for viewers

Viewers can't see your terminate 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.

End screens and videos set every bit made for kids

Cease screens aren't available for videos set as made for kids.

Even if you previously added an cease screen to your video, viewers won't see end screens when your audience is set every bit fabricated for kids.

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

Annotation: Your end screen may not always testify, or may show differently than designed. This difference happens as we better end screens based on performance, viewer beliefs, device, and context.

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