Add together cease screens to videos

Stop screens can be added to the concluding 5–xx seconds of a video. You can use them to promote other videos, encourage viewers to subscribe, and more. Yous can add upwardly to four elements to your cease screen for videos with standard 16:9 attribute 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, similar menu teasers and video watermarks, are suppressed during the end screen.
  • Finish screens aren't bachelor for videos set as made for kids, in the YouTube music app, flash videos, mobile web, or 360 videos.

Add an terminate screen

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Click the title or thumbnail of the video you'd similar to edit.
  4. From the left carte, select Editor.
  5. Select End screens and select the element you lot want to add:
    • Apply template: Templates incorporate groupings of elements that you can 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 aqueduct.
    • Channel: Promote some other channel with a custom bulletin.
    • Link: If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all 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 result in card or link removal, strikes, or termination of your Google Business relationship.
    • Trade: Feature ane detail from your trade.

  6. Click SAVE.

More options

Customize an end screen

Elements are the pieces of content that you add together to your cease screen. In that location are many ways to customize the elements in your end screen. You can use templates, change the timing of your elements, and determine where elements should show on your video.

Apply a template

Templates contain groupings of elements that you tin customize to create an end 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 menu, select Editor.
  5. Click Add together elementAdd to playlist to apply your template.
  6. Click Save.

Remove element type

Change element timing

Y'all can choose when yous'd like your end screen elements to show in your video. End screen elements will show at the aforementioned fourth dimension by default. Y'all tin customize individual elements to show at dissimilar times.

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

You tin as well change the timing of your finish screen chemical element by using the arrows to elevate it on the terminate screen row of the Editor.

Change element placement

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

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

Preview your end screen

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

What your end screen can show

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

Elements can feature different types of content:

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

All-time practices for creating end screens

  • Characteristic elements that are relevant to the video.
  • Encourage viewers to click using calls to activeness for different end screen elements.
  • If you apply a custom image, we recommend using an image that'due south at to the lowest degree 300 x 300 pixel width.
  • Brand certain you lot go out enough space and time at the terminate of the video for an stop screen. Make certain you consider the video's terminal 20 seconds when editing it.
  • Consider timing unlike end screen elements to show at different times.

Check end screen metrics

You lot tin can check the performance of your cease screens on the Engagement tab of YouTube Analytics.

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

If you're viewing analytics for your entire channel:

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

If you're viewing analytics for a specific video:

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

Finish screen requirements for viewers

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

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

End screens and videos set as made for kids

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

Fifty-fifty if you lot previously added an finish screen to your video, viewers won't meet cease screens when your audience is set up as fabricated for kids.

Learn more about what happens when your video is fix as made for kids.

Note: Your end screen may non always show, or may show differently than designed. This deviation happens as we improve end screens based on functioning, viewer beliefs, device, and context.

Was this helpful?

How can we improve information technology?