Comedy Central vs YouTubers – Progress tracking

Nov 2nd update: My analysis here have been completely faulty. Please see my apology here.

Nov 1st update: new data.

Oct 31st update: Adweek has a new piece today. And I excerpt a part of it here,

“The letter requested that YouTube remove some Viacom proprietary content that had been posted by users, including episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

That letter led YouTube to scramble to remove several videos over the weekend, according to officials.

Now, according to a Viacom representative, the two companies are exploring ways to ensure such problems will not be repeated. As a result, YouTube has re-posted an undisclosed number of Viacom-produced videos.

As of Tuesday, a variety of short clips from the Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Laguna Beach and SpongeBob SquarePants could all be accessed on the site.“

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I never thought Comedy Central or other large broadcasters will really go ahead to request their videos to be taken down from YouTube but I am getting dangerously close to eating my words now. If I am going to eat my words, I want to see some hard data before I do it. (sad face)

Here is a very imprecise way to keep track of the progress of Comedy Central video clips take down. The measurements are simple, I will simply search for the following terms every few hours and record the progress or changes in this post.

• “Jon Stewart” YouTube search (JS)
  
• “Colbert Report” YouTube search (CR)
  
• “Comedy Central” YouTube search (CC)
  

By the way, as far as I have read, one video clip (a Jon Stewart interview of Steve Wozniak) has been removed as per DMCA claim reported here. I would like to know of other specific instances. What are some other specific cases? I am also interested in the dynamics between the bloggers and Comedy Central (and its parent Viacom). This take down has been reported by Steve and John.

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Nov 1, 11:12MST update: searching JS => 1242, CR => 762, and CC => 1673(+). 11:12MST update: searching JS => 1242(-), CR => 762(+), and CC => 1666.

Oct 31, 18:58MST update: searching JS => 1270(+), CR => 728, and CC => 1666(+). 5:17MST, 12:06MST update: searching JS => 1268, CR => 728, and CC => 1665.

Oct 30, 20:07MST, 23:59MST updates: searching JS => 1268(-), CR => 728(+), and CC => 1665(+). 10:31MST update: searching JS returned 1283 results, CR returned 727 results(-), and CC returned 1656 results. 7:09MST update: searching JS returned 1283 results, CR returned 999 results(+), and CC returned 1656 results.

Oct 29, 21:00MST & 22:18MST update: searching JS returned 1283 results, CR returned 727 results, and CC returned 1656 results.