YouTube Disallows Explicit, Spammy Videos
By Anna Johnson on December 4th, 2008TechCrunch reports that YouTube is cracking down on sexually explicit videos (porn is already banned) and, in what should put Internet marketers on notice, ’spam videos’ with misleading titles and descriptions.
A popular tactic among those in-the-know is to use titles and descriptions for their YouTube videos that tie in with popular search phrases… but may not exactly reflect the content of a given video.
It’s not clear that YouTube plans to combat that kind of thing per se - it seems more interested in overtly spammy and misleading videos - but it may be on the cards. YouTube’s owner is, after all, Google.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am
It is about time You Tube started doing something about some of the worse kind of videos. As for the ones who are blatently advertising while giving different titles, I think it is only fair on the ordinary member of You Tube The majority are too young to take part in any opportunity be it network marketing or affiliate as the majority are between 10 years old and 15 years old. All they are interested in is funny videos and comunicating with their friends.
I only hope they will get rid of the worse kind of videos of people being beaten up etc.