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Friday, May 11, 2007

Sex Merchants Exploiting Youtube

In this video (if it’s still there this morning) you’ll see another attempt by a sex merchant to use Youtube as a marketing vehicle. We’re seeing this time and again - videos are uploaded that are too sexually explicit for Youtube's guidelines, and they’re soon removed.


The video publisher still wins, even if they’re video is removed, as thousands of Youtube viewers watch the video, and are exposed to the sex merchant’s web site.



In this video, you’ll see a young woman in a bathing suit making extremely provocative movements. It’s still accomplishing the publishers goal, by “turning on” thousands of male viewers, and attracting attention to their web site. Ching! Ching!


This morning a video post entitled, “Shaved Pussy”, was published on Youtube, and it managed to stay afloat most of the day. Mission accomplished for sex merchant.


With video, the challenge to keep porn from infiltrating, and dominating their servers, Youtube has a challenge on it’s hands. They have to have HUMANS review submitted videos, and that means hiring REAL people to work for the company, and that’s the dread of any online business.


Google (who owns Youtube), likes to automate as much as possible through the use of algorithms. Their algorithms read text to identify online content, but a video has to be seen by a human before a judgment can be made.


An interesting dilemma. Now you can watch this video to see how the sex merchant is staying within Youtube's guidelines, but still getting the exposure they’re after.


Don’t get me wrong. I like watching a healthy young woman “shake her booty” like any other red-blooded Canadian male - but it’s getting stupid.

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