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Product or service · Media and entertainment

Google Video, the video service that ended up moved to YouTube (2005–2012)

On April 13, 2005 Google opened the Google Video upload program, free and with no limit on length or size; on June 27, 2005 a post titled Google Video. Now with ... video! marked the stage when the service began showing videos. On January 14, 2009 Google announced that Google Video would stop accepting uploads within a few months. Videos already hosted would stay online, and the service would focus on searching videos hosted anywhere on the web; for publishing, users were pointed to YouTube or Picasa Web Albums. In July 2012 Google said the remaining videos would move to YouTube as private videos, and owners could migrate, delete or download content until August 20, 2012.

The official posts read by the museum have no image of Google Video itself.

April 13, 2005

Google Video

Product or service · Media and entertainment · Discontinued

sources · timeline 2005–2009

Interpretive reconstruction · Web 2.0 Web 2.0 conventions (2005–2009): rounded corners, soft gradients, light blue bars and Verdana text. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • April 13, 2005 Announcement · exact date [1]
  • June 27, 2005 Launch · exact date [2]
  • January 14, 2009 Announcement · exact date [3]
  • August 2012 End · approximate date [4]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
End of uploads Announced January 14, 2009, for a few months later 2 · Single primary source [3] primary
Where the videos went YouTube, as private videos, in the second half of 2012 2 · Single primary source [4] primary
Owners’ deadline August 20, 2012 2 · Single primary source [4] primary
Upload program Opened April 13, 2005, free and with no limit on length or size 2 · Single primary source [1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

  1. Google wants your video — Google Video Team — Official Google Blog, April 13, 2005. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  2. Google Video. Now with ... video! — Google — Official Google Blog, June 27, 2005. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
    Only the title and date were read by the museum.
  3. Turning Down Uploads at Google Video — Michael Cohen — Google Video Blog, January 14, 2009. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  4. Google Video content moving to YouTube — YouTube, July 3, 2012. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • What the June 27, 2005 post says about the start of video playback (only the title was read)
  • Paid video store
  • Relation to the 2006 YouTube purchase

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Google Video” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google Video, the video service that ended up moved to YouTube (2005–2012)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/google-video/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: google-video · Reviewed on November 2, 2026