YouTube API Services Terms of Service - Revision History

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August 11, 2016

The newly published YouTube API Services Terms of Service (the "Updated Terms") provides a rich set of updates to the current Terms of Service. In addition to the Updated Terms, which will go into effect as of February 10, 2017, this update includes several supporting documents that explain YouTube policies to help guide developers who are integrating YouTube API Services into their API Clients.

This update includes the following documents. All documents are in English unless otherwise noted.

  • The Updated Terms. Versions are available for the following regions and countries:

  • The Developer Policies explain policies that you need to follow when accessing or using YouTube API Services in your service, product, or application.

  • The Required Minimum Functionality defines minimum functional requirements for API Clients that implement or provide access to specific features of YouTube API Services. For example, API Clients that enable video uploads to YouTube must enable users to set a title when uploading a video.

  • The Subject API Services document identifies the Subject API Services discussed in section 14.3 (Special Terms) of the Updated Terms. The new document also explains how that section of the Updated Terms would affect actual deprecation dates for Subject API Services.

  • The Branding Guidelines are not a new document, but they will apply under the Updated Terms just as they apply under the current Terms.

  • This revision history and its accompanying RSS feed.

In addition to these changes, there are a couple of other changes related to the current Terms of Service:

  • Section 7 (Deprecation) has said for a long time that, following a deprecation announcement, Google would use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain YouTube API versions and features identified at https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube-api-list until the later of (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015. The text has been updated to remove the reference to the April 2015 date since any deprecation announcements yet to occur are certain to be after that date.

  • We have removed the set of Monetization Guidelines that talked about guidelines for building commercial applications. Those guidelines, which were originally written in 2008, contained references to features that were deprecated years ago as well as to sample implementations that were no longer relevant. The link from the Terms of Service to those guidelines has also been removed.