How To Backup All Of Your YouTube Videos

This is going to be a super-short post (with video) showing you how to download and backup all of your YouTube videos to your computer. Tweet This I’m going to refer you to a free video download program BUT it’s important that you watch the video (it’s only 5 minutes long) BEFORE you download and install “Free YouTube Download“.

Why You Need To Backup Your Videos

If you upload all of your videos to YouTube yourself, you probably already have copies on your computer. With Google Plus’ Hangout On Air craze, the videos are automatically uploaded to YouTube for you and you will need to download them manually if you want backup copies. Last Sunday, Hot Blog Tips hit the 100 video mark and the vast majority of those are Google Hangouts On Air (HOA).

What Happened To Our YouTube Channel…

A couple of months ago our YouTube Channel was hacked and a video was added by someone. We deleted the video and I quickly instituted Google’s two-step verification login. This is a second layer of protection and no one is supposed to be able to log into our account without a temporary code that is generated every couple of minutes via a phone app on my android. The password alone is useless.

And It Happened Again

Apparently that two-step login process doesn’t stop all hackers because our YouTube channel was hacked yet again, Sunday night. We were lucky that only another video was added and nothing else was touched. What if they had deleted our videos? I had not backed up most of the Hangout videos.