How to Delete a YouTube Video & Things to Consider Before Deleting It

Here’s How To Delete A YouTube Video From Your Channel!

A little more than 18,000 of you want to know how to delete a video on YouTube.

So today, we’re going to show you how to delete a YouTube video in this post.

Keep reading!

How To Delete YouTube Videos From Desktop

Step 1: Log in to your channel, head to your YouTube Studio, and click Content on the left sidebar.

Step 2: Then select the box next to the video you want to delete, click “More actions”, then click “Delete forever.”

Step 3: You’ll then see this popup box where you need to check that you understand deleting is permanent and can’t be undone.

And then click “Delete forever.”

Step 4: If you want to bulk delete several videos all at once, just check all of the boxes next to the videos you want to delete, and then follow the same steps. 

Now another way to delete single videos at a time that’s a little quicker is to simply hover your mouse over the video until the 3 dots appear.

Click that and click “Delete forever”, and follow the same steps from there.

Deleting YouTube Videos From Mobile

Step 1: Open your regular YouTube app signed in under your channel, tap Library.

Step 2: Tap Your Videos, then tap the 3 dots next to the video you want to delete and tap Delete. 

Step 3: It will ask you if you want to delete this video and if you’re sure, click Delete.

Now before you head off to delete some YouTube videos, we have a word of caution for you.

But before that, be sure to check out our new social media ads training course if you want to take your social advertising skills to the next level.

Things To Consider Before Deleting A Video

Any engagement or views you have on a video will be lost if you delete it, meaning you’re losing the SEO value on that video if you delete it.

And if you look in your YouTube analytics later, specifically your watch time, that data will be lost.

Takeaways

Because YouTube is a search engine, SEO is just as important for your videos as it is with your website on Google. 

Your YouTube channel getting found and acquiring organic traffic is dependent on YouTube SEO. 

So we would strongly suggest that you really think about why you’re deleting a video, before deleting it. 

If it’s something subjective such as you just being embarrassed of your old videos or something like that…

…we would advise against deleting it because every view and comment you get help your YouTube marketing.

Speaking of YouTube marketing, we have lots of posts that can help you with that, so be sure to check them out after this. We have tutorials for the following:

• How to start a YouTube channel
• How to create a YouTube playlist
• How to make YouTube thumbnail

And if your reason for deleting it is because no one watches it anyway, well we can help you with that.

Get our YouTube promotion services or YouTube SEO services today. Contact us to get started!

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