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YouTube Help caps titles at 100 characters and descriptions at 5,000. Hashtags can’t contain spaces, and with more than 60 on a video YouTube ignores all of them. Paste your title and description to check all four before you publish.

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Paste your title and description to check them.

  1. Not checked yetTitle is 100 characters or fewer0 / 100Type or paste your title.
  2. Not checked yetDescription is 5,000 characters or fewer0 / 5,000Paste your description.
  3. Not checked yetHashtags have no spaces0 foundChecks every # in your title and description.
  4. Not checked yet60 hashtags or fewer0 / 60Counts hashtags in the title and description together.

The limits, in YouTube’s words

You set the title and description in YouTube Studio when you upload, and can change them later. Hashtags can go in either one.

  1. Rule 1

    Titles: 100 characters at most.

    YouTube Help: “Video titles have a character limit of 100 characters and cannot include invalid characters.”
  2. Rule 2

    Descriptions: 5,000 characters at most.

    YouTube Help: “Video descriptions have a character limit of 5,000 characters and cannot include invalid characters.”
  3. Rule 3

    Hashtags never contain a space.

    YouTube Help: “Hashtags don’t contain any spaces. If you want to have two words in a hashtag, you can join them together.”
  4. Rule 4

    More than 60 hashtags and none of them count.

    YouTube Help: “If a video or playlist has more than 60 hashtags, we’ll ignore each hashtag on that content.”

YouTube Help doesn’t list which characters are invalid. On tags, it says they help when your topic is commonly misspelled and otherwise play a minimal role in discovery.

Sources: YouTube Help: Edit video settings · YouTube Help: Find playlists & videos using hashtags, checked .

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How long can a YouTube title be?

YouTube Help says video titles have a character limit of 100 characters and cannot include invalid characters.

How long can a YouTube description be?

YouTube Help says video descriptions have a character limit of 5,000 characters and cannot include invalid characters.

How many hashtags can I use on a YouTube video?

YouTube Help says that if a video has more than 60 hashtags, YouTube ignores each hashtag on it. It also warns that the more tags you add, the less relevant they become for people searching.

Can a hashtag have two words?

Yes, joined together. YouTube Help says hashtags don’t contain spaces, and to join two words, like #TwoWords or #twowords.

Where do hashtags go?

YouTube Help says you can add hashtags to the title and the description when you upload a video or record a Short. This checker counts both together.

Do tags still matter?

Not much. YouTube Help says tags can help if your video’s topic is commonly misspelled, and otherwise play a minimal role in discovery.

How are emoji counted?

YouTube Help doesn’t say. This checker counts most emoji as one character and an emoji with a skin tone as two, so leave a little room if you’re close to a limit.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No. The check runs in your browser. Nothing you type leaves this page.