diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
index b423aa301f9d..f6332874b3ac 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/youtube-dl/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, python, zip, pandoc }:
 
 let
-  version = "2015.01.30.2";
+  version = "2015.03.09";
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "youtube-dl-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "00ymx254qgic9ka7wb41cinv1w0ijq6l0f5k2cfspi958jqql9lm";
+    sha256 = "0mxpm79xdzzckc5rysjx17pxm9bldk7s13im7l9xd4pjrhy411xz";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ python ];