Can you swap a video on Youtube

[Teamman]

I've put a video up on YouTube, after a day of being up I noticed a spelling mistake on someone's name. What I'd like to do is remove that video and put the corrected video in its place, but I want to keep the same URL as relatives are still watching it.

Does anyone know if this is possible, TIA

[Alwyn]

Yes, the answer's No.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55770?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#:~:t...isting%20video.

The "Adding a Card" bit is interesting.

[Teamman]

Yes, the answer's No.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55770?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#:~:t...isting%20video.

The "Adding a Card" bit is interesting.

Thank you Alwyn, I'll look in to that

[SaurusX]

Yet somehow all those music videos are being upgraded to HD without losing their view counts.

[Cornucopia]

I expect that many of the music videos were uploaded in HD but only offered as SD, until such time as their accounts got upgraded, then YT automatically re-rendered from stored upload as HD. They did this automatically a few years ago also to take advantage of other codecs, so not surprising.


Scott

[Bwaak]

I expect that many of the music videos were uploaded in HD but only offered as SD, until such time as their accounts got upgraded, then YT automatically re-rendered from stored upload as HD. They did this automatically a few years ago also to take advantage of other codecs, so not surprising.

Many of these videos have been remastered just recently. I bet labels have special relations with YT, which allow them to re-upload their videos without losing all the comments. If you watch music videos on YT at all, you notice these things.

Here, Erasure - Always (Official 4k Video), uploaded in 2009. Pillarboxed, though. I hope they re-upload it as true 4:3. It seems big labels do not realize that YT is not broadcast TV and allows HD that is not 16:9.

[Cornucopia]

Could be. Since, with a few exceptions, I haven't watched music videos in 2 decades, that could easily fall under my radar.
And I would not be at all surprised at Google giving special privileges to the biggest earners influencers.

Scott