Hillary Clinton Removes a Video from her YouTube Channel

I spoke with Josh Levy at Tech President, who noticed that Hillary Clinton’s cumulative views on YouTube dropped today (6/6) from yesterday – how could that be (great catch and good question, Josh)? If you’re following the TubeMogul charts tracking the 2008 presidential campaign on Tech President or through your own free account at TubeMogul, you might be asking the same question.

I went through all of the YouTube videos we have ever tracked on Hillary Clinton and found 37 different videos. That’s fine, but then I noticed that she only has 36 videos up on YouTube today. My mind raced (for me, anyway); is the Clinton campaign removing a mention of some topic on which they want to reposition Hillary? Obviously this wouldn’t be on the same level as being the Sandy Berger move of online video, but it does raise questions.

After looking through the videos, I found that there had been two different videos for “Message from Bill Clinton” supporting his wife, one added on 5/12 (previously at this address) and one added on 6/4, and the one posted in May has been removed (Note, this does NOT refer to the video titled “A Special Message from Bill Clinton” uploaded on 3/23). The deletion of the 5/12 video has caused the drop in cumulative YouTube views that we see for Hillary’s profile, hillaryclintondotcom.

Was anything in the first video that has been edited from the second? Were there inaccuracies or anything else that they would have wanted to change? Why was this removed for another video of the same name, thumbnail, and tags? If anyone has insight on this, please comment.

1 comment June 6th, 2007