diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 039c10dd3..c008ed54a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 
         # title
         if 'title' in video_info:
-            video_title = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
+            video_title = video_info['title'][0]
         else:
             self._downloader.report_warning(u'Unable to extract video title')
             video_title = u'_'