A Look At The Daniela Cicarelli Brazilian Controversy On YouTube

About a week ago, a sex-tape video of Daniela Cicarelli, a Brazilian supermodel started appearing on YouTube. Keeping in mind that YouTube is a highly popular website in Brazil, thousands of Brazilians began to boycot a TV program that features Daniella on MTV Brasil. 

I don't have to say I'm sorry about anything because it's not my fault, I stated Cicarelli in an interview on Globo TV in Brazil on Tuesday. I don't have anything to do with that request, nor with the decision. Cicarelli mentioned that her boyfriend, Renato Malzoni was the one who filed the case.

Representatives from YouTube Inc. are stating that they are “working on resolving the current issue in Brazil and has been removing any clips containing the sex-tape footage.

For more information regarding the Brazilian model, refer to the Wikipedia page on her.

Some of the other recent YouTube controversy revolves around the Saddam Hussein execution video that started appearing on January 1st.

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Video Adverts on YouTube Homepage

We know that Google is driven by advertising, right?

Well, since buying YouTube, they haven’t plastered the site with advertising, as a less savvy company might do, but they have played around a few times with raising revenue including adding promotions, supposedly linked to the video playing, at the bottom of the video, but above the playing controls.

We wonder if you’ve noticed that the top right corner of the YouTube site has changed in to an advert, not explicitly marked like so.

Playtex bloopers advert

A couple of days ago there was a Playtex video playing there, apparently of out-takes from the filming of the advert.

It very much played to what makes a video get clicked by at least 50% of the population – a woman with just a bra on.

The video itself was, to say the least, very boring and that was reflected by the audience voting, which had it standing at two stars after over 7,000 responses.

With that level of low voting, it’s clear the video isn’t sitting there because everyone thinks it’s great, so there must be another reasons, like it’s being paid for.

Clearly placing the video advert on the front page works. Looking at it today, we can see that there have been over 4 million videos of it, compared with up to 17,000 with their others.

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YouTube to Filter Sex, Violence, Foul Language

YouTube today introduced a new content filter that helps users screen out offensive content, such as news videos with graphic violence, or sexually suggestive clips that don't exceed the service's Community Guidelines. The optional filter, named Safety Mode, also hides all text comments by default.

Google's YouTube has long banned family-unfriendly content, including pornography and videos that show gratuitous violence, animal abuse, underage drinking, and the like. But Safety Mode adds another layer of protection to keep kids and sensitive adults away from more provocative material.

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