diff --git a/includes/media.filter.inc b/includes/media.filter.inc
index 32424df..fb34c81 100644
--- a/includes/media.filter.inc
+++ b/includes/media.filter.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @TODO: Rename this file?
  */
 
+define('MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX', '/\[\[.*?\]\]/s');
+
 /**
  * Implements hook_wysiwyg_include_directory().
  */
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ function media_wysiwyg_include_directory($type) {
  */
 function media_filter($text) {
   $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';
-  $text = preg_replace_callback("/\[\[.*?\]\]/s", 'media_token_to_markup', $text);
+  $text = preg_replace_callback(MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX, 'media_token_to_markup', $text);
 
   return $text;
 }
@@ -106,6 +108,113 @@ function _media_url_curry($func, $arity) {
 }
 
 /**
+ * Implements hook_field_attach_insert().
+ *
+ * Track file usage for media files included in formatted text. Note that this
+ * is heavy-handed, and should be replaced when Drupal's filter system is
+ * context-aware.
+ */
+function media_field_attach_insert($entity_type, $entity) {
+  _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_field_attach_update().
+ *
+ * @see media_field_attach_insert().
+ */
+function media_field_attach_update($entity_type, $entity) {
+  _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Add file usage from file references in an entity's text fields.
+ */
+function _media_filter_add_file_usage_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) {
+  // Track the total usage for files from all fields combined.
+  $usage = array();
+  foreach (media_filter_parse_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) as $file_reference) {
+    if (!isset($usage[$file_reference['fid']])) {
+      $usage[$file_reference['fid']] = 1;
+    }
+    else {
+      $usage[$file_reference['fid']]++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // First, clear out all file usage for this entity. This ensure that files
+  // that are no longer referenced are removed.
+  list($entity_id) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);
+  db_delete('file_usage')
+    ->condition('module', 'media')
+    ->condition('type', $entity_type)
+    ->condition('id', $entity_id)
+    ->execute();
+
+  // Add a file usage record for each file reference that was found.
+  if (!empty($usage)) {
+    $files = file_load_multiple(array_keys($usage));
+    foreach ($files as $fid => $file) {
+      file_usage_add($file, 'media', $entity_type, $entity_id, $usage[$fid]);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse file references from an entity's text fields and return them as an array.
+ */
+function media_filter_parse_from_fields($entity_type, $entity) {
+  $file_references = array();
+
+  foreach (_media_filter_fields_with_text_filtering($entity_type, $entity) as $field_name) {
+    $field_items = field_get_items($entity_type, $entity, $field_name);
+    foreach ($field_items as $field_item) {
+      preg_match_all(MEDIA_TOKEN_REGEX, $field_item['value'], $matches);
+      foreach ($matches[0] as $tag) {
+        $tag = str_replace(array('[[', ']]'), '', $tag);
+        $tag_info = drupal_json_decode($tag);
+        if (isset($tag_info['fid'])) {
+          $file_references[] = $tag_info;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $file_references;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns an array containing the names of all fields that perform text filtering.
+ */
+function _media_filter_fields_with_text_filtering($entity_type, $entity) {
+  list($entity_id, $revision_id, $bundle) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);
+  $fields = field_info_instances($entity_type, $bundle);
+
+  // Get all of the fields on this entity that allow text filtering.
+  $fields_with_text_filtering = array();
+  foreach ($fields as $field_name => $field) {
+    if (!empty($field['settings']['text_processing'])) {
+      $fields_with_text_filtering[] = $field_name;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $fields_with_text_filtering;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_entity_delete().
+ */
+function media_entity_delete($entity, $type) {
+  list($entity_id) = entity_extract_ids($type, $entity);
+
+  db_delete('file_usage')
+    ->condition('module', 'media')
+    ->condition('type', $type)
+    ->condition('id', $entity_id)
+    ->execute();
+}
+
+/**
  * Parses the contents of a CSS declaration block and returns a keyed array of property names and values.
  *
  * @param $declarations
