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Open Google Takeout Our link opens it with YouTube already selected
You should see only YouTube and YouTube Music ticked, and "1 of 1 selected" at the top. If not, click Deselect all and tick it again.
DIGITALFOX TALENT
Put your back catalogue in front of new audiences
Your existing videos can reach new audiences on podcast apps, video platforms and TV, and earn for you there. We just need a copy of each file: Google packages your channel into your Google Drive, you share that folder with us, and we do the rest. Your videos stay yours, and nothing on YouTube changes.
What this opens up, and what we promise
More reach and more revenue for you. Hundreds of finished videos, each a new episode for new audiences on Spotify, Apple, MSN and more. You keep 60% of the ad revenue.
These platforms need the video files, not YouTube links. Takeout gets us every file in one go.
Where your videos go
To private hosting we pay for, then only to the platforms you tick. Nothing goes anywhere you haven't approved.
What stays yours
Everything. You own every video, and the listings are your show, in your name. Any video, channel or platform comes down on request, and we delete our copies within 10 business days.
What we never touch
Your YouTube channel, Google account, passwords or the rest of your Drive. Takeout only makes a copy, and you only sign in on Google's own pages.
If anything here doesn't match what you understood from your agreement with us, ask us before you start.
Your permission
Tick everywhere you'd like your videos to reach. Untick anything you'd rather we didn't use.
Podcast appsSpotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, TuneIn, Deezer and more
Video platformsMSN, Facebook, Snapchat, NewsBreak
Connected TVTubi, Roku, Samsung TV Plus
This becomes a short confirmation you paste into your reply at step 5. Your written reply is your approval.
0 of 5 steps done
Before you start
- 1Be signed in to the Google account that owns your channel.Not sure which? Open YouTube Studio and click your picture in the top right. Use that same account below. If your channel is a Brand Account, pick it from the account menu on the Takeout page.
- 2Have some room in Google Drive.The export lands in your own Drive and a big channel needs a lot of space, but only for a few days. Short on storage? Tell us and we'll pay for a month of extra.
- 3Use a computer, and keep this page open.Each button opens Google in a new tab. Do the clicks there, then come back here and tick Done.
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Choose just your videos So the export isn't full of watch history and comments
Click All YouTube data included, then Deselect all. Tick only videos and video metadata, then OK.
YouTube and YouTube Music content options
Choose specific YouTube data for your export
Deselect all
- channels
- comments
- history
- playlists
- subscriptions
- video metadata
- videos
CancelOK
Your list may show more items. Just tick the two highlighted: videos is the files, video metadata says which is which.
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Send it to your Google Drive One setting to change, then Create export
Click Next step, then under Transfer to choose:
Add to Drive
Leave everything else as it is, then click Create export. That's the last click on Google's side.
!It has to be Add to Drive. Download links only work for you and expire after a week, so we can't use them.
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Wait for Google's email A few hours, sometimes a day or two for big channels
Nothing to do. Google emails you when the files land in a Drive folder called Takeout.
✓Partly complete is fine: we check it against your channel and fill any gaps ourselves.
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Share the folder and reply to us One share and one reply, and you're finished
In My Drive, right-click the Takeout folder, choose Share, add this address as a Viewer, and click Send:
theteam@digitalfoxtalent.comThen reply to our message with this confirmation. It's built from what you ticked above:
✓Viewer access only lets us read that folder, and you can remove it once the files are in.
What happens next
- We pull the files from your shared folder and match each one to its video.
- Each video is checked, then published in your name on the platforms you ticked.
- Anything missing, we fetch another way, then tell you where your videos are live.
If something's not right
Google says I don't have enough storage
Tell us and we'll cover a month of extra Google storage, which you can cancel once we've pulled the files.
I chose the download link by mistake
No harm done. Go back to Takeout and create a new export with Add to Drive as the destination.
I can't see "videos" in the list
You're probably in a Google account that doesn't own the channel. Check the account picture in YouTube Studio and use that account in Takeout. For a Brand Account, pick it from the account menu at the top of Takeout.
The export failed or looks incomplete
Google sometimes struggles with very large channels. Share whatever it produced and we fill in the rest.
Who owns the videos and the listings?
You do, exactly as before. We hold a copy only to publish where you've approved, and the listings are your show in your name. If we part ways, we hand the listings over or take them down, your choice, with no fee.
Will this change anything on my YouTube channel?
No. Takeout only makes a copy. Your videos, settings and analytics stay exactly as they are.