How to Move/Copy Videos Between YouTube Playlists (Complete Guide)

Let's say you want to move some videos from a YouTube playlist with name Focus Music to a YouTube playlist with name All Songs, you need to follow the steps mentioned below.

Want to organize your videos differently? Check out our guides on deleting multiple videos from playlists or deleting entire playlists.

Method 1: Manual YouTube Playlist Move/Copy (Slow)

Step 1: Open Your Playlists

Open list of playlists by going to URL https://www.youtube.com/feed/playlists. Here you will see list of all playlists saved to your YouTube account. Click on Focus Music which is the playlist that contains the list of videos that we need to move.

Step 2: Access Video Menu

On the playlist page of Focus Music playlist, click on the menu button on the right side of a video panel. When the menu opens, click on Save to playlist button. This will open a submenu with list of all playlists.

Step 3: Move or Copy Video

To Move: Unselect the checkbox of Focus Music playlist and select the checkbox of All Songs playlist. Unselecting the checkbox of Focus Music playlist removes the current video from Focus Music playlist while selecting the checkbox of All Songs playlist will add current video to All Songs playlist.

To Copy: Simply select the checkbox of All Songs playlist without unselecting Focus Music. This will copy the video to both playlists.

Below is the final state of the menu after selecting the destination playlist:

Step 4: Repeat for all required Videos

Repeat the previous step for all required video panels in order to migrate required videos from Focus Music to All Songs playlist.

Alright! You have successfully moved required videos from Focus Music to All Songs playlist.

While this is one of the fastest ways to move videos from one playlist to another, moving one video at a time is fairly slow and can take up a lot of time if the playlist contains a large list of videos.

Method 2: Fast Bulk Operations with Tubeflow (Recommended)

A fast alternative method is to use Tubeflow for achieving the same goal. Tubeflow is a chrome extension specially crafted for managing and organizing YouTube playlists and subscriptions. Tubeflow can be downloaded from here.

If you have already installed Tubeflow, you can follow the steps below to move a large number of videos from one YouTube playlist to another:

Step 1: Open Source Playlist

Open YouTube playlist page of Focus Music playlist. On Focus Music playlist page, you will be able to see all videos in the playlist with checkboxes on top left corner of the video panels.

Step 2: Select Multiple Videos

Select checkboxes for all required videos from left side of all video panels.

Step 3: Bulk Move or Copy

A menu will open on top of screen, click on Move to Playlists and select All Songs playlist to move videos, or click on Copy to Playlists to copy videos while keeping them in the original playlist.

Perfect! You have successfully moved all required videos from Focus Music to All Songs playlist.

And That's a Wrap!

With these two methods, you now know how to efficiently organize your YouTube playlists by moving or copying videos between them. While the manual method works for a few videos, Tubeflow makes bulk playlist operations quick and effortless, saving you valuable time when reorganizing large music collections or video libraries across multiple playlists.