Random one. A mate sent me a screenshot of one of my videos on some meme page with 400k views. No tag, no mention, nothing. It had been up for two weeks, and I had no idea it existed.
Which made me think, how much of this am I just not seeing? I post about four times a week so manually searching for every clip is not happening.
How do you lot keep track of this? Is there something that tells you when your stuff shows up somewhere else, or is everyone finding these by accident like I did? Honestly I am not even that annoyed about the credit, I just want to know when it happens."
Unfortunately, there's no universal notification system that tells you every time someone reposts your video. Each platform only shows activity within its own ecosystem, so once your content starts getting downloaded and shared elsewhere, it becomes much harder to track.
What I've started doing is checking my best-performing videos every few weeks instead of trying to monitor everything. It isn't perfect, but it has helped me discover reposts I would have otherwise missed.
I usually search using a few unique frames from my videos rather than just the title or caption. A lot of pages remove the original description when they repost content, but the visuals stay the same.
If you publish regularly, keeping a folder of your original videos also makes it much easier to compare versions later.
I've accepted that I'll never find 100% of reposts. My goal is to find the ones that matter, especially pages getting significant views or using my content commercially.
For those cases, I keep links, screenshots, and upload dates in a spreadsheet. If I ever need to contact the page owner or file a copyright request, I already have everything documented.
I'm curious how other creators handle this too.
Do you actively look for reposts every week, or do you only investigate when someone sends you a link? I feel like most unauthorized reposts are discovered by chance rather than through a consistent workflow, so I'd love to hear what has worked for everyone else.
If you're trying to find visual reposts instead of text mentions, a reverse video search tool like Revideo can save a lot of manual work. I usually upload the original clip every so often to see if similar copies appear elsewhere.
It won't catch every repost on the internet, but it's a much faster starting point than checking every social platform one by one.
