New Music video regulations

"The British Board of Film Classification is to pilot voluntary ratings for online music videos, as the exemption threshold for music DVDs is narrowed

The threshold at which physically released music videos – primarily DVDs and Blu-rays – must receive an age classification from the BBFC is to be lowered. The organisation is also planning to launch a voluntary pilot for online music videos, in partnership with record label trade body the BPI, a spokesperson confirmed to the CMU Daily.

This follows a review of the Video Recordings Act by the UK government, which was completed last year. Until now, only physically released music videos containing “extreme” content have required an age rating. Under the pending changes to the Act, expected to be implemented in the spring, anything that fits the criteria for a twelve certificate or above will have to be classified by BBFC examiners. Previously these would have been stamped ‘exempt’, or simply not put forward for review at all."  Quote BBFC website

The government are now making stricter regulations on music videos in the UK in a attempt to make music videos less sexualised and show less explicit  content so that the younger generations are not influenced as much by the music videos.

I personally do not think that because of the new regulations, that young people are not going to see these music videos because of the internet. You can't monitor what everyone watches on the internet and young people will be able to find this sort of content online quiet easily. But it is a good idea most people watch music videos on television, so making videos shown before the watershed less explicit will mean less young people will be influenced by the music videos.