Detect illegal copies of content on VK
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What is VK
A brief history behind VK’s journey to becoming one of the biggest social media platforms in the world with more than billion visitors every month
What is VK
VK, or VKontakte, is a Russian social media platform with over a billion monthly visitors worldwide. Launched on October 10th, 2006, by Pavel Durov (also known for creating Telegram Messenger), VK enables users to connect through messaging, communities, public pages, and events.
Such a vast functionality garnered VK its first million users within the first year.
The platform’s versatility extends to media content, allowing users to upload, search, and stream videos. Recognizing the high demand for videos, VK introduced its original shows and the VK Video mobile app in 2023.
Like other UGC platforms, VK has faced legal challenges due to users uploading copyrighted content, turning the service into a piracy hub. WebScan scans VK in one click, simplifying content protection on one of the largest video-sharing resources.
VK in numbers
Monthly visits with core audiences from the MENA and Eastern Europe regions
Languages supported, including English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish
Average number of daily video views generated on VK in Q3 2023
Place in the list of the most visited websites in the world on December, 2023
Total revenue generated by social media unit of VK Holding (including VK) for 9 months of 2023
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VK Copyright Policy
VK prioritizes content protection and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The main challenge lies in efficiently detecting infringements and notifying the platform accordingly.
The VK Help Center outlines the process: the VK Team promptly restricts access to infringing content upon the proof of ownership presented by the requester. Copyright complaints are accepted through a dedicated form on the VK website.
VK actively involves its users in maintaining a copyright-friendly environment, encouraging them to report any dishonestly copied content with just a few clicks.
Based on WebKyte team experience, it takes up to 1 day on average for VK to remove reported content.
VK copyright protection tools
At the moment, VK carries out the experimental operation technology of digital fingerprinting, identifying and removing infringements. However, it’s important to note that VK primarily relies on audio fingerprints for content recognition. In the context of identifying video content, using only audio fingerprints can miss many illegal copies due to dubbing and other audio changes. WebScan runs on video fingerprinting, ensuring the detection of copies regardless of metadata, audio modifications, or video distortions.
Case
Manual identification
Basic hashing
Audio fingerprinting
Video fingerprinting
An exact copy with exact metadata
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
A distorted copy with changed metadata
✓
✓
An exact copy with an unofficial dubbing
✓
✓
A distorted copy with an unofficial dubbing
✓
WebScan runs on video fingerprints and does not require access to video files.
WebScan runs on video fingerprints and does not require access to video files.
Supported video distortions
Identify copies regardless of their audio, metadata, and video distortions
- Quality changes / CAMRip
- Dynamic zooming
- Slight rotation or cropping
- Interface elements, ticker, etc.
- Time inconsistencies such as playback
- Video fragments cut
- Mirroring
- Horizontal and vertical sidebars
- Logos and drawings overlays
- Color modifications
- Slight speed increase/decrease
- Deepfake
Supported
platforms
Platforms with user-generated videos are rising, generating billions of visitors each month. WebScan covers some of the largest UGC platforms in the world simplifying content protection down to a few clicks.
| Platform | Monthly traffic | Main traffic source | Supported languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dailymotion | 169 MM | Worldwide | 183 languages |
| Vimeo | 60 MM | Worldwide | 7 languages |
| VK.com | 1,100 MM | Eastern Europe | 90+ languages |
| OK.ru | 414 MM | Eastern Europe and the Middle East | 13 languages |
| Mail.ru | 29 MM | Eastern Europe | 10 languages |
| CDA.pl | 22 MM | Poland | Polish |
| Chomikuj.pl | 6 MM | Poland | Polish |
| Rumble | 63 MM | Worldwide | English |
| Webshare.cz | 2 MM | Czech Republic | 2 languages |
| Aparat.com | 18 MM | Iran | Persian |
| Videa.hu | 23 MM | Hungary | 2 languages |
| FC2.com | 144 MM | Japan | 2 languages |
| Bitchute.com | 13 MM | Japan | 2 languages |
| Odysee.com | 12 MM | Worldwide | English |
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