YouTube “Video Is No Longer Available” Error

Janie of Colloquium emailed me yesterday regarding my post about my personally-selected YouTube Videos. She said she was not able to view them because there was an error in each video: it says it is no longer available.

I’ve seen that one before. The first time in my own video. I got worried, thinking if I violated YouTube’s Terms of Service (TOS). Was the video taken down due to copyright infringement or copyright claim by other parties? I didn’t think so. Fortunately, the (only) video in my account was not deleted. So how did I fix the error?

I didn’t. It was on YouTube side. My instinct told me to press F5 to reload the page before I make a drastic move in my blog. Luckily, the trick worked.

So I emailed Janie back saying that it is normal when the page with embedded YouTube video is open for a long time. The clip is not gone, removed or deleted. All she has to do is refresh the page and the video will re-appear.

She thanked me for letting her know because she didn’t “realize that You Tube timed out like that.” to quote her.

I want to thank Janie for pointing this out. She inspired me to write a post because it seems to me that this issue looks like a big deal to a concerned viewer. I hope that this post somehow reaches YouTube so they can fix the annoying “Video is no longer available” error that makes their members and users worry.

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  • 21 Responses to “YouTube “Video Is No Longer Available” Error”


    1. 1 JHS

      I’m having to have learned something new! I did open the page, then got distracted . . . and when I came back, no video! Glad it was an easy fix. :-)

    2. 2 JHS

      oops . . .that should read “happy” to have learned something new.

    3. 3 Marcus LANGFORD

      You would think all of that money that Google has put into YouTube, they wouldn’t have these minor yet irritating issues. I am gonna need Sergey and Larry to get it together.

    4. 4 Diana13

      I’ve observed this issue too. But I didn’t thought to write a post about it. Smart girl :)

    5. 5 Heather

      nice…and don’t stop blogging. It’s part of what keeps you feeling Lucky!

    6. 6 omg

      I have litterally tried everything. i have:
      unisntalled and reinstalled Flashplayer 3 times,
      unistalled all other players from my computer,
      reinstalled jave 5 times,
      downloaded all windows updates,
      removed all firewalls,
      enabled javascripting,
      reinstalled display driver,

      i keep getting an error on pege in the bottom left hand corner of the page and i still ge tthe same “sorry this video is no longer available”

    7. 7 na

      None of the above suggestions work, it seems it’s a youtube problem, not a coding problem. They need to fix it.

    8. 8 JoJo
    9. 9 MOin

      yeh it also sometimes happens with me actually the videos is not gone or deleted the problem i detected was that my server was limiting my downloads like i could’t download anything .exe .mp3 .zip anything we say so i was’t also able to see videos. the problem is gone since i replace my ISP.

    10. 10 Meteor Freak

      Typical of YouTube to be full of bugs. They pull videos all the time for some inane violation of their TOS. You used to be able to drive decent traffic to your site with YouTube but they are quickly becoming unusable…

    11. 11 Evelyn Szabo

      my youtube has an error and I tried averything and still it does not work this has happening a week now, please help me get it back

      Evelyne

    12. 12 Mark

      Lol. You know what? This happened to me too, but I didn’t have the inspiration to refresh the page and I removed my video from my blog. Oh well, we live and learn..

    13. 13 water damage phoenix

      There are some web 2.0 property sites which affix problem by themselves, it helps me a lot and my blogs too.

    14. 14 Brian

      hehe, I was having same problem with youtube but now my videos are working fine,,,

    15. 15 Kaycee Katona

      I love watching videos online specially on Youtube. There are lots of music clips, movie clips and instructional videos on Youtube. I love em all.

    16. 16 Jay Hunt

      i use Youtube to watch Taylor Swift videos. I always watch movie clips on Youtube. What an awesome site. ,’

    17. 17 CCNP training

      yes sometime we face difficulty to download the videos on youtube,nice informative post.thanks

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