Friday, April 22, 2011

Cross-posted on theYouTube Blog

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 Videostatus page. To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you cancreate a YouTube account). Before doing this you should read YouTube'sTerms of Use andCopyright Policies. If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function.

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

As wesaid nearly two years ago, 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 byMark Dochtermann, Engineering Manager