There isn’t a more famous and well regarded source of video content on the whole Internet than YouTube – this is a commonly known fact.
What is also commonly known is that some videos on YouTube are not accessible to the general public and are uploaded in secrecy, to be shared only with a precisely defined audience.
Investigators often limit their searches to searching by keywords or to utilising advanced Google operators to maximise potential keyword results.
However, when searching for hidden content on YouTube, keyword searches don’t work in most cases.
Sometimes when we know the exact date range, we might be able to uncover some content, especially if it was copied or shared amongst several profiles and it was not deleted from every single one.
But this often depends on being able to locate and source the videos from sources other than the YouTube platform.
So what can we do on YouTube itself?