WildFilmsIndia

Largest gathering of humanity on earth: Kumbh Mela

8 months ago | [YT] | 28

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Zakir Hussain and Sivamani Jugalbandi in 1990's - most fabulous gathering of Indian classical doyens

https://youtu.be/koPQHgJDMhs

9 months ago | [YT] | 29

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Monsoon in the Himalaya...

11 months ago | [YT] | 23

WildFilmsIndia

First Boeing 747-400 in India, as Air India launches double-decker Konark in 1993

https://youtu.be/VznzD858ZYw

1 year ago | [YT] | 21

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... Magical sight: Olive Ridley Turtles by tens of thousands hatching, instinctively heading out to sea

https://youtu.be/b18EK3qz_gc

1 year ago | [YT] | 15

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I wish big companies would listen! They could gain so much...

India's oldest and largest education and information channel wildfilmsindia's CMS is being taken off from Youtube due to a glitch and a systemic error! And no one at Google-Youtube is listening or even reachable!

Do appeal to and tag and write a note of support to @youtube , @youtubecreators and @youtubeindia if you would like to support our cause!

wildfilmsindia was the first channel from Asia to join video.google.com back in 2005 following which we were invited to migrate to Youtube that had just been acquired by Google on the basis of our informing Google that our content was being widely plagiarized and shared on this new platform called Youtube, having been taken from the erstwhile www.video.google.com With this knowledge, Google examined Youtube and decided to buy the company from Chad! Google did a Case Study on wildfilmsindia back in 2006, as we were generating some 6% of global pag views on GV in those days!

Despite this enormous history with Google and Youtube, it appears that wildfilmsindia's CMS is being removed from Youtube this week, on the basis of a unilateral termination notice that we have received. Over the decades, we have worked hard to secure for ourselves a position of attracting 10% of ALL foreign visitors coming to India on the basis of our Youtube content, as the largest Travel and tourism channel in Asia, and being a part progenitor of the Incredible India campaign videos. A team of 100 Indians and a few Americans and Bhutanese toil full time at making wildfilmsindia the most definitive source of factual and informational content on South Asia. We are an archival time capsule of the Indian subcontinent as we reveal rare footage from the early twentieth century up unto the present day, from the days of 8 mm film to the present days of 8K UHD video.

We are often targeted as many assume we have an Indian Government linkage as we are the largest India visual archive, a sort of visual Wikipedia on India. Hence us being dragged into an Ukraine-Russia hacking incident! One of our channels was hacked and inflammatory political content was uploaded to it, without our knowledge. As soon as we found out from angry viewers, we deleted the said content and changed our passwords. This triggered the termination from Youtube, we suspect. We are flamed with abusive comments targeting the government, and our channels have been password compromised and hacked into on occasion.

This appears to be a horrible mistake and misunderstanding. We have never knowingly violated any Youtube policies, and would be glad to make any fresh learnings, and move ahead from here, in a strong partnership with Youtube. See examples of our compellingly visual, unparalleled and invaluable work here: https://youtu.be/Yc8Q7y2c_Nc , https://youtu.be/lAefd4wp0c8 , https://youtu.be/nB19LeyZmE0 , https://youtu.be/qh1X7s601jM and https://youtu.be/mKt2ysizAfk

By Google terminating our CMS and Content ID, wildfilmsindia would no longer be able to host our 125, 000 videos on Youtube and would be forced to delete all this rare and valuable content, a truly unparalleed global resource and an invaluable asset to educators, students, researchers, tourists and everyone in India from 6 to 96 years of age. Youtube gave us Content ID as it was the only means by which we were able to track the frequent theft of our rare content such as the first-ever Snow Leopard hunt in the wild, and the famous Tiger attack video. Thanks to Content ID, we have OVER a half million videos tracked and present on Youtube, on other channels. We would have to manually take down on a copyright and IPR infringement basis some 500K videos from Youtube if our channel and Content ID CMS are deleted. This would be an enormous loss of valuable educational content to Youtube.

We have never knowingly broken any of Youtube-Google policies or guidelines from 2005 to the present date, spanning a huge 18 years! It would be a crying shame were Youtube to lose our content and were wildfilmsindia to lose the Youtube platform as a means of disseminating our rare and varied trove of 150K hours of content for the world to see for free, and benefit from in multiple information ways. We receive messages of appreciation almost every minute, from students, teachers, IAS preparation candidates, professors, museums, governments, tourists and researchers from around the world, thanking us for being such an asset on Youtube.

Do help to save India's largest historical, contemporary Wikipedia-esque source of visual information on South Asia. Youtube seems to have no system of appeals and is acting in a mechanical fashion without taking into account the history of wildfilmsindia on Youtube. Our channel started as wildfilmsindia on Google Video even before Youtube was created in 2006...

Please help stop this destruction of the world's largest visual information source on India, over Youtube. Having been hacked and our information exposed does not make us criminals... Please help us source any form of appeal with Youtube to allow us to survive. It would be a serious global information loss of this massive visual resource which exists for the good of education, law, travel, research and many other uses. This is exactly the purpose that Youtube was created for!

wildfilmsindia would love to partner Google and Youtube as we continue to organize all the visual information of India in one place, on Youtube. This is a unique project that we started back in 1997 and then on Google Video back in 2005, and continue to do so on Youtube. We activate a new video from across India almost every thirty minutes! We need your support to archive India, in the form of this visual Wikipedia-esque behemoth... Without any intent to feature our content, Google ends up prioritizing us in searches, as we are the deepest visual archive in India. Google needs to take greater advantage of this massive trove, so we can feed into their system as part of a more intense partnership! But no one is listening.

Sincerely,

Rupin Dang

Managing Director, Wilderness Films India Ltd.

Ex Member, National Tourism Advisory Council, Government of India

Board of Directors, Automobile Association of Upper India (AAUI)

Director, The Asian Miracle

Trustee, Future Generations India

"Youngest Filmmaker in India": Limca Book of Records

Recipient of "National Tourism Award" and "Incredible India Award"

wildfilmsindia - Number One Tourism and travel channel in Asia

1 Factory Road, Ring Road South, New Delhi 110 029

youtube.com/wildfilmsindia

1 year ago | [YT] | 19

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... Demoiselle Cranes of Khichan: Treasured trans-Himalayan guests

1 year ago | [YT] | 13

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... Ancient Barter system still exists in India - Jonbeel mela, Assam

1 year ago | [YT] | 15