# An update on Google Video: Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube

Friday, April 22, 2011


* Cross-posted on the [YouTube Blog](https://youtube-global.blogspot.com/) *


Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of
Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted
on the platform. Since then we've received feedback from you about making the migration off of
Google Video easier. We work every day to make sure you have a great user experience and should
have done better. Based on your feedback, here's what we're doing to fix things.


Google Video users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content and we are
eliminating the April 29 deadline. We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos
to YouTube. In the meantime, your videos hosted on Google Video will remain accessible on the web
and existing links to Google Videos will remain accessible. If you want to migrate to YouTube now,
here's how you do it:

- We've created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option on the Google Video [status page](https://www.google.com/video/upload). To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you can [create a YouTube account](https://www.youtube.com/create_account)). Before doing this you should read YouTube's [Terms of Use](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and [Copyright Policies](https://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_center). If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function.

![The Google Video takeout functionality](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/import/6028707eb6e0807f99053d320efb15ae.png)


If you'd prefer to download your videos from Google Video, that option is still available.


As we
[said nearly two years ago](https://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2009/01/turning-down-uploads-at-google-video),
the team is now focused on tackling the tough challenge of video search. We want to thank the
millions of people around the world who have taken the time to create and share videos on Google
Video. We hope today's improvements will help ease your transition to another video hosting
service.


Posted by
[Mark Dochtermann](https://plus.google.com/113478413773426154601/about),
Engineering Manager