Performance Marketing

Facebook’s ‘Freebooting’ Piracy Problem Just Cost Casey Neistat 20 Million Views

Lingering theft issues anger video creators

By Christopher Heine

November 12, 2015

Casey Neistat, who has 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, recently created a fun Halloween video called "Aladdin in Real Life" with his friend, Jesse Wellens, and they quickly garnered more than 10 million views. The two-minute clip took weeks to complete, as the duo spent significant cash on costumes and orchestrated a high-tech video shoot while interloping through the busy daytime streets of Manhattan, N.Y.

Christopher Heine
@Chris_Heine Christopher Heine is a New York-based editor and writer.
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