Hi Sarah, This topic is right up my alley - I'm a security researcher for Websense. YouTube as a conduit for spammers is another sore spot for Web 2.0 services. I know this may sound counter-intuitive at first glance, but we're not Google/YouTube, yet we have visibility into these YouTube spammy videos that are actively being used in spam. Carl who just commented above is from Defensio, and we have insights into comment spam. Meaning, if a spammer posts a spam video on YouTube, they will then want to "market" it around on blogs, etc .. and we can tally the URLs that are being circulated throughout the spam-blogosphere, and monitor for spikes, etc. We also track the IP address of the people posting the blog spam comment (containing the YouTube link), so we know who they are. Among the other variables we track.. On a related note, can the community effectively flag most of the spammy content and rid of them somewhat reasonably well ? http://securitylabs.websense.com/content... Cheers! Jay Liew Websense Security Labs @jaysern - Jay Liew from FriendFeed MT Plugin

That's really interesting, Jay, thanks for sharing. Please feel free to keep me posted on your research. sarah at readwriteweb.com - Sarah Perez