diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/types.ts b/frontend/src/utils/types.ts
index 4aac008140..304dd038c9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/utils/types.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/types.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import {
   Recommendation,
   RelatedEntity,
   TournesolUserSettings,
-  Video,
   EntityNoExtraField,
 } from 'src/services/openapi';
 
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ export type EntityResult =
   | Recommendation
   | SimpleEntityResult;
 export type EntityObject = RelatedEntity | EntityNoExtraField;
-export type VideoObject = Video;
 
 /**
  * An exhaustive list of route ids helping to enforce type checking in each
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/video.ts b/frontend/src/utils/video.ts
index 15765c4a0d..a0a9de921f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/utils/video.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/video.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import { VideoObject } from './types';
-
 export function extractVideoId(
   idOrUrl: string,
   { ignoreVideoId = false } = {}
@@ -38,29 +36,6 @@ export function isVideoIdValid(videoId: string) {
   return !!videoId.match(/^[A-Za-z0-9-_]{11}$/);
 }
 
-/**
- * Return the video id of an entity.
- *
- * If no field `uid` is found, return the value of the legacy `video_id`
- * field instead.
- *
- * The `uid` is expected to have the form `{namespace}:{id}`. The potential
- * occurrences of the delimiter `:` in the identifier are considered part of it.
- *
- * Example with different `uid`:
- *
- *     yt:videoABCDEF -> videoABCDEF
- *     yt:video:ABCDE -> video:ABCDE
- */
-export function videoIdFromEntity(entity: VideoObject): string {
-  if (entity.uid) {
-    const id = idFromUid(entity.uid);
-    if (id) return id;
-  }
-
-  return entity.video_id;
-}
-
 export function idFromUid(uid: string): string {
   if (uid) {
     const uidSplit = uid.split(':');