I know a lot of you love the Copyright Audit in Oink. It has always done one job well: find the brands on Amazon that are using your videos without permission. I just pushed an update that takes it a lot further. Now it doesn’t just find the stolen content, it fills out the Amazon violation form for you, packages everything you need to file, and then helps you track those same brands down inside Creator Connections so you can message them directly. Here is how the new version works and how I would use it.

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The old Copyright Audit scanned your storefront videos and surfaced the brand videos that matched them. That was useful, but it still left you with the annoying part: going to Amazon’s infringement form, typing in your info, finding the ASIN, linking your original video, linking the brand’s copy, and doing that over and over for every brand that took something.

The update does three new things. First, it fills out the violation form for you, including the brand video, your original video, and all the identifying information Amazon asks for. Second, if you pick ten different brands, it generates ten separate labeled forms and downloads them as a zip file. Third, it adds a Creator Connections view that finds those same brands’ campaigns so you can message them from inside Creator Connections and give them a choice before you file.

Caption Match vs. Length Match

When you open the audit now, you get a new screen with two match types. The original method was a length match, which compared the duration of your video to the brand video to spot full copies. The new method is Caption Match, which compares the actual spoken content of the videos.

I only run Caption Match now, and I will probably deprecate the length match entirely. Caption Match is far more accurate, and more importantly it catches brands that took only a small piece of your video. A length match can only find the brand that uploaded your whole clip. Caption Match finds the brand that chopped fifteen seconds out of the middle and dropped it into their own listing video.

Set Up Your Claim Info First

If you have never used this before, there is a short form at the top of the audit screen where you enter the information Amazon requires on a claim: your name, contact details, and the other identifying fields. Fill it out once and save it. That is how Oink knows how to populate every form it generates for you going forward. Skip this step and the generated forms will have blanks, so do it before you run anything.

Running the Audit and Reading the Results

To run it, go to your storefront in Oink, open Other Actions, and click Copyright Audit. Pick Caption Match and start it. Fair warning: this is a slow process by design. We have to throttle it heavily to keep it reliable, so with roughly 3,500 videos on my storefront it takes me about an hour. Smaller storefronts will finish faster. Start it and go do something else.

When it finishes, the results screen gives you a summary up top and the full list below. The summary shows:

  • Total matches found across your storefront
  • Full copies, meaning 100% matches of an entire video
  • Partial clips, where only a segment of your video was used
  • The overall match percentage
  • How many of the offending brands are currently in Creator Connections
  • How many claim forms you have created and how many brands you have messaged

Each brand row has a “messaged” toggle. Click it when you reach out and it stamps the date, so you can follow up later. If you hit it by mistake, there is an unmessage option. The same thing happens when you generate a form: it records the date so you have a paper trail of when you filed.

Partial Clips Are the Ones You Were Missing

Don’t ignore the lower match percentages. In the video I scrolled down to a brand that only showed a 63% caption match, opened the product, found the brand’s video, and there I was, my own legs in my own footage, sitting inside the brand’s listing video. A 63% match was a real theft. The percentage is how much of the captioned content overlaps, not how confident the match is. A brand that lifted half your video will show up around 50%, and that is still your content being used to sell their product without paying you.

So my recommendation is to work the whole list, not just the 100% rows. Click into each one, confirm it visually, and then decide what you want to do with it.

Generating Your Violation Forms

Once you have confirmed which brands you want to file against, select them and click Create Your Form. Oink builds a form for each selected brand with your info, the ASIN, the brand’s video, and your original video, labels each one by brand, and downloads the batch as a zip to your computer. From there you submit them to Amazon. The step that used to take ten minutes per brand now takes a few seconds for all of them at once.

Finding the Brand in Creator Connections

This is the part I am most excited about. Go to Other Actions and open Copyright Audit CC Results. This view cross-references the brands that stole from you against Creator Connections campaigns. Each brand shows whether it has an active campaign, a completed campaign, or both.

Click Quick Check on any brand and Oink switches your Creator Connections tab to the right filter, active or completed, and locates that brand’s campaign for you. From there you can message the brand directly through Creator Connections. When you do, mark it as messaged and that status syncs back to the main audit screen.

One important detail: make sure you are on the Affiliate Plus campaign type when you do this. Quick Check does not work on the Sponsored Products view, so if the brand isn’t showing up, that is the first thing to check.

Turning Stolen Videos Into a Revenue Source

The reason the Creator Connections piece matters is leverage. Filing an infringement claim gets the video taken down, which protects you but doesn’t pay you. Messaging the brand first gives them a choice: take it down, or pay you to license the footage and keep it up. A lot of brands would rather pay than deal with a violation on their account, because violations create real problems for a seller.

So the workflow I recommend is: run Caption Match, confirm the matches, find the brand in CC Results, send a message that says you found your content in their listing and you are happy to discuss licensing before you file, and mark them as messaged. Give them a reasonable window. If they don’t respond or don’t want to pay, generate the form and file it. Either way you come out ahead, and the brands that are willing to pay become a new income line you didn’t have before.

Who Gets This Feature

The updated Copyright Audit with form generation and the CC Results view is rolling out now to Pro subscribers. If you are on Pro, go to your storefront, open Other Actions, and you should see it. If you have been putting off dealing with the brands that took your content because the filing process was a pain, that excuse is gone. Here is the walkthrough from the video.

I built this because I don’t want people stealing from you, and if you can make a little money in the process, even better. If you are not on Oink yet, head over to oinkforinfluencers.com, grab a Pro subscription, and run the Copyright Audit on your storefront this week. You might be surprised by what you find.

I'm an Amazon Influencer since 2023 and blogger since 2021. My goal is to help you succeed in the Amazon Influencer Program.

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