diff --git a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/tests/test_videos.py b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/tests/test_videos.py
index cac7230285..d2d4294c18 100644
--- a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/tests/test_videos.py
+++ b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/tests/test_videos.py
@@ -325,11 +325,11 @@ class VideosHandlerTestCase(VideoUploadTestMixin, CourseTestCase):
         response = self.client.get(self.url)
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
         self.assertRegexpMatches(response["Content-Type"], "^text/html(;.*)?$")
-        self.assertIn(_get_default_video_image_url(), response.content)
+        self.assertIn(_get_default_video_image_url(), response.content.decode('utf-8'))
         # Crude check for presence of data in returned HTML
         for video in self.previous_uploads:
-            self.assertIn(video["edx_video_id"], response.content)
-        self.assertNotIn('video_upload_pagination', response.content)
+            self.assertIn(video["edx_video_id"], response.content.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertNotIn('video_upload_pagination', response.content.decode('utf-8'))
 
     @override_waffle_flag(ENABLE_VIDEO_UPLOAD_PAGINATION, active=True)
     def test_get_html_paginated(self):
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class VideosHandlerTestCase(VideoUploadTestMixin, CourseTestCase):
         """
         response = self.client.get(self.url)
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
-        self.assertIn('video_upload_pagination', response.content)
+        self.assertIn('video_upload_pagination', response.content.decode('utf-8'))
 
     def test_post_non_json(self):
         response = self.client.post(self.url, {"files": []})
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ class VideosHandlerTestCase(VideoUploadTestMixin, CourseTestCase):
 
         # Verify that course video button is present in the response if videos transcript feature is enabled.
         self.assertEqual(
-            '<button class="button course-video-settings-button">' in response.content,
+            '<button class="button course-video-settings-button">' in response.content.decode('utf-8'),
             is_video_transcript_enabled
         )
 
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ class VideoImageTestCase(VideoUploadTestBase, CourseTestCase):
             uploaded image url
         """
         self.assertEqual(upload_response.status_code, 200)
-        response = json.loads(upload_response.content)
+        response = json.loads(upload_response.content.decode('utf-8'))
         val_image_url = get_course_video_image_url(course_id=course_id, edx_video_id=edx_video_id)
         self.assertEqual(response['image_url'], val_image_url)
 
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ class VideoUrlsCsvTestCase(VideoUploadTestMixin, CourseTestCase):
             response["Content-Disposition"],
             u"attachment; filename={course}_video_urls.csv".format(course=self.course.id.course)
         )
-        response_reader = StringIO(response.content)
+        response_reader = StringIO(response.content if six.PY2 else response.content.decode('utf-8'))
         reader = csv.DictReader(response_reader, dialect=csv.excel)
         self.assertEqual(
             reader.fieldnames,
@@ -1430,7 +1430,8 @@ class VideoUrlsCsvTestCase(VideoUploadTestMixin, CourseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(len(rows), len(self.previous_uploads))
         for i, row in enumerate(rows):
             response_video = {
-                key.decode("utf-8"): value.decode("utf-8") for key, value in row.items()
+                key.decode("utf-8") if six.PY2 else key: value.decode("utf-8") if six.PY2 else value
+                for key, value in row.items()
             }
             # Videos should be returned by creation date descending
             original_video = self.previous_uploads[-(i + 1)]
diff --git a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/videos.py b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/videos.py
index b6b7a9548c..fc67664bc9 100644
--- a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/videos.py
+++ b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/videos.py
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ def video_encodings_download(request, course_key_string):
             ]
         )
         return {
-            key.encode("utf-8"): value.encode("utf-8")
+            key.encode("utf-8") if six.PY2 else key: value.encode("utf-8") if six.PY2 else value
             for key, value in ret.items()
         }
 
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ def video_encodings_download(request, course_key_string):
     writer = csv.DictWriter(
         response,
         [
-            col_name.encode("utf-8")
+            col_name.encode("utf-8") if six.PY2 else col_name
             for col_name
             in [name_col, duration_col, added_col, video_id_col, status_col] + profile_cols
         ],