Unlisted Videos Going Private

[JayZippo]

Just thought I'd throw that out there. I have to review my unlisted videos, there are a few that I have linked in places, and in fact I think one has a video background for a website lol.

How is it going to affect you, if at all?

 

[Rhody Seth]

Is that what's happening? They are getting rid of unlisted videos and turning them all private? Wouldn't affect me too much.

 

[Tito Tims Videos]

The notice said "Unlisted videos that you uploaded before January 1, 2017 will automatically be made Private." I just read that we can opt-out of the change, or reupload them as new Unlisted vids. It is only affecting legacy vids. The newer Unlisted vids are not affected.

It only affects a few of mine anyway. There are 5 or 6 funeral vids I kept Unlisted, just for some out of the country family... and my father-in-law's funeral was a long time ago. They got 70 or so views initially and nothing since (big family). So Private is fine for those vids.

Here is a good article about it. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970?hl=en

 

[crazy-logic]

Yeah - i opted out of the change, as when my content becomes no longer technically correct I make them unlisted, but i know they are embedded in places as the view counts still go up.

 

[markkaz]

I wanted to move away from a series I had been doing for two years. I made a final episode but I didn't want those 100+ shows in my recent videos (at that time). I kept about a dozen public but unlisted the rest. They were still accessible in that show's playlist. Now that a couple years have past, I went ahead and made them all public again. I need to check and see what other videos are affected and see if it matters.