How to Post on YouTube: Video Upload Guide for Beginners

Learn how to post a video on YouTube from phone or desktop, then hand repetitive uploads to an AI computer agent so your team stays focused on strategy.
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Why YouTube + AI Agents

Posting video to YouTube is one of the fastest ways to get your story in front of customers, clients, and fans. A single upload can fuel search traffic, nurture leads, and build trust at scale. But the mechanics—logging in, filling out fields, setting visibility—add up fast when you’re publishing often. Delegating the repeatable parts to an AI agent turns YouTube from a time‑sink into a background system that quietly ships content while you stay focused on creating it.

How to Post on YouTube: Video Upload Guide for Beginners

If you only upload the occasional video, the classic manual route works perfectly fine.

Manual Upload Methods

Desktop (YouTube Studio)
  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio
  2. Click CreateUpload video
  3. Pick your file
  4. Add title, description, tags, thumbnail, playlist, and visibility settings
  5. Publish
Mobile (YouTube App)
  1. Tap the Create icon
  2. Choose or record a video
  3. Fill in details
  4. Publish

Manual uploads are simple and give you full control, but they don't scale. Business owners, agencies, and marketers often need to post multiple versions across channels, test titles, and maintain a steady cadence. That's where automation and AI computer agents come in.

Automated Uploads with AI

How Simular Works

You can record a "golden path" workflow:

  • Open browser and navigate to YouTube Studio
  • Upload the asset from your drive
  • Paste in title and description from a content brief
  • Set playlists and tags
  • Publish or schedule

The agent learns each step and repeats it reliably.

Comparison

Manual Uploads
Pros:
  • Maximum creative control in the moment
  • Good for rare or sensitive one-off videos
Cons:
  • Easy to forget fields, cards, or end screens
  • Time-consuming for series or batches
AI-Driven Uploads at Scale
Pros:
  • Consistent metadata, SEO, and branding
  • Batch publishing and scheduling across many videos
  • Frees your team to focus on scripting, production, and strategy
Cons:
  • Requires upfront setup and testing
  • You still need humans to own creative decisions and review edge cases

The Sweet Spot

Humans create the story and strategy.

Your Simular AI computer agent handles the boring, pixel-perfect work of getting every video live on YouTube.

Scale YouTube Uploads With an AI Agent Workflows

Train Your Simular Agent
Start by recording one clean YouTube upload workflow for your Simular AI computer agent: logging in, opening YouTube Studio, uploading a file, and filling in core fields.
Test And Refine The Agent
Run the Simular AI agent on a draft YouTube upload. Check titles, descriptions, tags, and visibility. Tweak prompts and guardrails until every field is populated exactly as you expect.
Scale Delegated Uploads
Once the Simular AI agent is reliable, hand it folders of ready‑to‑publish videos. It will open YouTube, upload, set metadata, and schedule releases so your content calendar runs on autopilot.

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