In this video I want to help you out. I want to show you how easy it is
to find and report copycats on RedBubble, so that you can stop them from making
a profit off of your designs and hopefully get more sales. Let's go!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and i've seen a lot of people copy my designs there's lots of
copycats out there and i'm talking about pixel for pixel copycats i'm not just talking about people
that take the idea that you have and do it their own style i'm talking about people who totally
just rip off the designs and sell it as their own without any addition or anything like that
now this happens on a lot of pod sites this time i'm going to focus on redbubble but it doesn't
mean that redbubble is the only pod site that has copycats there's copycats on etsy there's
copycats on amazon there's copycats everywhere in this video i'm going to focus on redbubble because
they have a special way to report every every pod site has a different way to report copycats
i'm going to show you the red bubble way so i'm going to show you in this video how to find
copycats at least the way that i do it and where to report it and how to do it how easy it is where
to find the forms and everything like that so let's get into redbubble right now and i'll show
you how to do this so here i am on redbubble you can see redbubble from bubble.com i'm on my shop
right now detour shirt shop and if you scroll down on your shop you'll see like your top designs will
be right here the most relevant you could also do things like um best selling and that's what
people do when they copycat they look for your best-selling stuff and copy them because they
know that those are selling and they hope that if they do the same thing if they copy your designs
people are going to be looking for these and then they'll get a sale as well so that's the mentality
of the copycatter right they're going to just with as little work as they can do copy the
ones that sell the best and hope that they get a piece of that too without doing much work so
copycatters are lazy and because they're lazy it's easy to find them because what they do
is let's just take this example the top one of mine this word right here this phrase is title
they're gonna also copy the phrase so not only are they gonna copy the design they're gonna copy this
phrase so if i type in the search bar on redbubble in this case moab utah arch vintage sunset
i'll bet you i'll find a copycat so let's do it moab utah arch
vintage sunset okay so that's my long keyword title i'm going to hit
search you you use whatever yours is whatever your top selling is you do this on your own
type in the at least five words if your title is longer than five words and then hit search and
it's gonna take a little while but you're going to see mine is the top result right and again that's
how they find they look for the top results so one thing to notice look at the design the colors the
fonts we're going to see if we can find an exact match and i'm sure we will so there's one right
here it's not an exact match it's very similar but it's not the same font but if we look here
the exact same font the exact same layout as this one right um let's see so there's here's another
one exact same font exact same let's see again we'll scroll down some more here's one here's
some more right with the hexagon that are not mine let's see that's detour shirts again i've
done a few here's another one right so i got a lot to report here um let's scroll down again
uh that's mine that's mine that's mine so let's go and report um this
one right here uh this looks exactly like mine so we're gonna click on it
and again they they took the not only that they take the design but the whole phrase right moab
utah arch vintage sunset right um look at it right here another thing copycats like to do
is to tag spam so of course they were already breaking the rules on taking pixel 4 pixel stuff
of course they're going to tag spam 2 by doing utah uta uta to china get up there in the rank
so you can look for that as well the nice thing about red bubble is this right here
you can report content and you can do copyright infringement so let's take a look at both of them
i'm going to open these in different tabs so i'm going to right click open a new tab right click
open a new tab so you can see the difference what these are so first the report content
you can report inappropriate content but this is not for copyright infringement so you can see here
none of these is copyright infringement this is just for bad things like violence or
pornography or inappropriate stuff so this is just inappropriate content is how that works but that's
not exactly what we want to do so let's go to the other one which was this copyright infringement
right report content is just for inappropriate stuff copyright infringement is the one you want
to do so scroll down when you find copycat all the way to copyright infringement it will open
up this right here you can read all these things what it is but what you wanna do is click on this
right here notice and take down report okay so let's do that so this will open up a new page
you can fill out this right here and i'm going to put my name here right holder's name my name
again redbubble username in this case i'm going to put detour shirts my email address you would put
that here you don't need the physical address you can if you want to it's not required the required
ones are here with the asterisks and urls this is required so what i would do is come up here
go all the way to the top just to make sure that this is the right one double click on this
and then do command c or copy and come back here and i would put this right there
and then description of intellectual property you can say what it is so mine would be
moab design in a hexagon whatever right and describe it then you would go to your site
come here click on this one so you find your design that they're copying
double click here command c come back to this part and put this in here after you describe what it is
command v so you have what it is moab design and a hexagon with vintage sunset fill it
out you could also add a file if you want to i don't know how much that helps is not required
but then you would click these in good faith yes i know this is my design it's a pixel for pixel copy
and make sure that you you own the rights if you did it i know i drew this one i drew this by hand
i made it all in affinity designer so i know this one is mine i didn't buy it from anywhere else
so then you would submit this here and report it and then you'll get an email back from redbubble
saying that they got it and eventually they will take it down so sometimes it takes longer than a
week but they'll get it within a few days they're going to take a look at it and then within about
a week they'll take stuff down so that's how easy it is to report on redbubble unfortunately
again like i said there's so many things if you go on redbubble right now so i've been doing some
cleanup on redbubble and you can see this one also my famous corgi uh is being stolen right here by
other people um i'm finding a lot every quarter i go in and just do some of my top sellers and
you can see that you know again they they're the same corgi eating ramen eating ramen they take the
designs that they not only take the designs but to take the title so they're pretty easy to find
on rebel it's just a pain to report them over and over again i hope that redbubble can find
a way to make sure that they know that it's your design and then whenever somebody else
tries to upload the exact same design they can find it and kind of report it themselves so
um unfortunately if you're in the pod business this happens a lot um to everyone this is kind
of part of the business because it's so easy for people to do this people are looking for
a quick way to make uh sales so they you know do the lazy lazy way and do it so
hopefully this video is really helpful for you so that you can find uh the copycats on
redbubble and report them redbubble's pretty good at removing the stuff but again there's so many
copycats that it's hard for them to keep up so just give them some time and
they'll do it so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully this video was
really helpful for you now you know how to find and report copycats on redbubble if this video
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of the day for this video is what pod sites have you found copycats of your design i talked about
redbubble but there may be others that you found on let me know that in the comments have you found
it on amazon or etsy or redbubble or t public let me know that in the comments thanks again
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videos right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye