Overview
Deleting a video means permanently removing it from your account. Once you delete a video, it is no longer accessible to viewers, and you will not be able to recover it.
Understanding the implications of deleting a video is important as it will immediately impact your audience.
Warning:
Once a video is deleted, it cannot be restored. Proceed with caution to ensure you want to permanently remove the video.
Key Points
Here are the key points to know about deleting a video:
| 1. | A video can be deleted at any time, regardless of its status: draft, approved to share, shared, live, or archived. |
| 2. | A video can be deleted regardless of its location, whether it's in the Video Library or the Archive. |
| 3. | When a video is deleted, the applied brand and media assets used in the video are not deleted along with the video. |
| 4. | If the video you are deleting is personalized, you will also have the option to delete the associated data library, provided there are no other videos using that library. |
| 5. | Even after a video with views is deleted, its data will remain available in the Account Analytics dashboard and reports, with the video's status indicated as Deleted. |
| 6. | If the video you are deleting was hosted on a SundaySky landing page, the landing page will be deleted, and viewers attempting to access the link will receive an error message. We recommend removing the landing page link from your distribution platform before deleting the video. |
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| 7. | If the video you are deleting was embedded on a webpage using embed code, the code will no longer be valid, and viewers attempting to play the video will receive an error message. We recommend removing the embed code from where it was placed before deleting the video. |
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Deleting a Video
| 1. | In the Video Library or the Archive, locate the video that you want to delete. |
| 2. | Click the Options menu and then select Delete according to the view that you are working in. ▶ The Delete option is also available from the Video Page. |
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| 3. | If you are sure that you want to delete this video, type Delete to confirm. ▶ The message displayed will vary depending on whether the video has an associated landing page or is embedded using the embed code. |
| 4. | Click Delete permanently. |
| The video is deleted from your account and a confirmation message is displayed at the bottom of the screen. | |
| 5. | (Optional) If the video you deleted used a data library that was only associated with this video, you can also delete the data library. |