YouTube Title Checker
A YouTube title can be up to 100 characters. This YouTube title checker counts yours as you type and flags the two characters YouTube refuses in a title, the angle brackets. Every rule YouTube publishes links to its page. The checker runs in your browser, with no sign-up.
- Free, no sign-up
- Your title stays in your browser
- Not affiliated with YouTube or Google
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How to check a YouTube title
- Type or paste your video title into the field above, or press “Insert an example”.
- Read the count under the field: it shows how many of the 100 characters you have used, and it turns red when the title is too long.
- Check the list under the count. It says how many characters you have left and whether the title contains a character YouTube refuses.
- Press “Copy title” and paste it into YouTube Studio.
YouTube's rules for a title
These are the rules YouTube documents for a video title, and where each one comes from:
| Rule | Value | YouTube source |
|---|---|---|
| Length | Up to 100 characters | YouTube Help and the Data API |
| Characters | Any valid UTF-8 character except < and > | Data API |
| Hashtags | A hashtag in the title links to a page of videos with that hashtag | YouTube Help |
| Cut-off in search | Not published | None |
How long can a YouTube title be?
A YouTube title can be up to 100 characters long. YouTube Help says that “video titles have a character limit of 100 characters and cannot include invalid characters”, and the YouTube Data API reference gives a title the same maximum.
The checker counts strictly: most emoji are stored as two units of text and count as two characters here, some as more. YouTube does not say how it counts an emoji, so counting high keeps the checker from promising room that YouTube might not give.
The two characters YouTube refuses
YouTube's developer documentation lists the two characters a title cannot contain: the angle brackets < and >. Every other valid UTF-8 character is allowed, according to the same page. The checker counts each < and > in your title, so you can replace it before you upload.
Where does YouTube cut off a long title?
YouTube does not publish where a long title is cut in search results, on the home feed or beside a playing video.
That is why this checker counts against the 100-character limit and sets no cut-off of its own. Wherever the cut falls, it takes the end of the title, so put the words that say what the video is about first.
Hashtags in a title
A hashtag in a title becomes a link. YouTube Help on hashtags says hashtags in the title and description link to a results page with other videos that share the hashtag. The checker lists the hashtags it finds in your title.
Titles and YouTube's spam policy
A title has to deliver what it promises. YouTube's spam policy describes malicious clickbait as “using maliciously misleading titles, thumbnails, descriptions, or imagery to trick users into clicking on a video that does not deliver what was promised”. The checker cannot judge that for you, so read your title against your video before you publish.
From a webinar on YouTube to LinkedIn posts
If your team publishes webinars or talks on YouTube, each video can be the start of more than one LinkedIn post. In Scripe, you can paste a YouTube link into the chat and Scripe reads the video's transcript to draft LinkedIn posts and post ideas from it.
Scripe is a social media management platform for B2B teams and agencies, built LinkedIn-first. Today it supports LinkedIn. The YouTube description generator builds the video's description, with chapters and links, and the other free tools are on the tools page.
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