Google announced on April 29 that all Google Videos will no longer be viewable on the site, users will need to transfer their video clips to other Google's video service, YouTube, by May 13th. Since its announcement, there has been a lot of feedback of how to make this process easier and quicker.
In respond to the feedback, Google has created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option, making it easy to send videos from a Google Video account to an associated YouTube account.
Here is the message posted on the Google's Webmaster Central blog on April 22 regarding the details and how its work. Also, an email was sent to all Google video users on April 23 as well.
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. To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you can create one here). Before doing this you should read YouTube's Terms of Use and Copyright Policies. If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function.
[via Mashable]
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