Searching for lost media

[Summity]

Hello,

I've a request about the "lost" documents and media.

I'm nearly surprised that this topic isn't more noticed in this forum.

In fact plenty of documents are posted on the forum, then "disappear" because they are erased or removed from the source sites. I often meet this situation with Youtube and similar platforms, I've emitted some requests on this forum to find these "lost" videos (indeed they may remain, but being very difficult to find among thousands of other media).

Do you manage to retrieve these documents (in my case, mainly videos of adverts, clips and reels) ?

How do you proceed against these unpleasant and frustrating situations ? Is it possible and useful to contact the filmmakers, artistic directors, agencies for "fancy" purposes and without paying extra costs ? Do you have other tips ?

I'm waiting for your answers. Thanks.