YouTube Bans One Of America's Top Fitness Blogger's Account

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Terminated YouTube Account

"There wasn't even a note of explanation from YouTube"

Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) November 04, 2011

Colby, known to his online followers as The Abs Expert, has been providing free workout videos to his blog readers and YouTube viewers for the past 5 years. He had amassed over 2500 subscribers to his YouTube channel, with over 200 videos and hundreds of thousands of videos views, all helping his loyal followers of his channel and Abs Expert blog get fit and in shape for the last 5 years.

It was a big surprise to his community of loyal followers that YouTube suspended his account for violating community guidelines. Users were shown the following message when trying to view his video content: “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content.” Scott's YouTube channel has been providing fitness workouts for 5 years and YouTube failed to explain which community guideline he violated. His followers are equally confused as to why his account was shut down.

The Abs Expert writes on his blog in an open letter to YouTube, "With so much spam and garbage out there on the web, I made special attention to respect YouTube's community, follow their guidelines and only upload my best material. All I wanted to do is help as many people get in shape as possible." He states, "There wasn't even a note of explanation from YouTube... If YouTube let me know what I did wrong, I certainly would have fixed it right away."

Unfortunately Scott is not alone, with other well known bloggers David Jenyns, from davidjenyns.com, and Darren Rowse from Problogger suffering similar fates and having their accounts terminated over the summer. "I'm stunned having built a great reputation within the YouTube community," Dave commented in his open letter to YouTube blog post. He states "YouTube appears to have made a big mistake overlooking their "3 strikes and you're out" as stated in their community guidelines."

Although Google spokesperson did not respond immediately when David and Darren's accounts were terminated, YouTube did yesterday acknowledge it made "the wrong call" when it suspended Rowes' account.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," a spokesperson for the online video giant's owner Google said. "When it's brought to our attention that a video or account has been mistakenly removed or suspended, we act quickly to reinstate it." Source: http://delimiter.com.au/2011/06/12/youtube-kills-problogger-account/

Rowse and Jenyns have both had their YouTube accounts reactivated and hope that their issues with their YouTube accounts brought some attention to how YouTube handles these potential issues in the future. Read: Rowse's open letter to YouTube.

Scott Colby's account still remains inactive. He's had almost 200 followers come to his website and post comments in support and asking for a reactivation of his account, but still no word from Google. Let's see if Google's YouTube really does listen.

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