| Type | Private | ||
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| Founded | March 15, 2005 | ||
| Headquarters | Paris, 49-51 rue Ganneron, 18th arr., France | ||
| Key people | Cédric Tournay, CEO Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder Olivier Poitrey, Co-Founder & CTO Roland Hamilton, MD US Martin Rogard, MD France |
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| Owner | Reliance Entertainment | ||
| Employees | 100 (September 2010) | ||
| Slogan | Regarder, publier, partager (Watch, publish, share) | ||
| Website | dailymotion.com | ||
| Alexa rank | 109, 14 in France | ||
| Type of site | video sharing | ||
| Advertising | contextual & video ads | ||
| Registration | Optional (required to upload/comment) |
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| Available in | 19 Countries and 12 languages | ||
| Launched | March 15, 2005 | ||
| Current status | Active | ||
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Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France.[1] According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.
As of October 2010[update], the site was getting over 93 million unique visitors monthly and is the 32nd most visited website in the world.[2]
Since February 18, 2008, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on a HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5–9 megabits for expected HD quality.[3]
On January 25th, 2011, France Telecom's Orange entered exclusive negotiations with Dailymotion with a view to acquiring a 49% stake in the company for EUR 58.8M (hence valuing the company at EUR120M).[4]
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The founders of Dailymotion began the website in an apartment in Paris; the business opened in the living room of Olivier Poitrey, one of the founders. Six founders pooled together €6,000 ($9,260 USD) to begin the website.[5]
The dailymotion.com domain name was registered one month after youtube.com was registered.
Dailymotion allows users to browse and upload videos by searching tags, channels or user-created groups; the search system also introduces results based on things other users have searched for. The maximum size of a video file is 2 gigabytes. The length of the video file is also limited to 60 minutes, except for the MotionMakers and the Official Users.
Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion are converted to the VP6 codec at a resolution of 320×240. Audio on Dailymotion videos is encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo.
In 2007, Dailymotion signed a major agreement with the Canal+ network to broadcast its television series in full on the site. All Canal+ videos are shown on an encrypted channel of the site with anti-piracy safeguards. Within a year, the site's revenue had increased to €10 million and they had an estimated 8 million unique visitors per month in France.[6]
The partnership gave Dailymotion the financial backing it needed to upgrade its servers to handle High Definition video and showcase its MotionMaker videos. In February 2008, the HD quality (1280 × 720 pixels and 1.58 to 1.85 Mb/s) was made available to the MotionMaker users. In October 2008, the HQ quality (512 × 384 pixels, 30 images per second, H.264 is used for images and AAC at 96 kb/s for the sound) was made available to regular users.
In May 2009, Dailymotion announced that it would make its videos available using the HTML5 video element using an Ogg video format.[7]
MotionMaker is a group for the original content creators. Official User is a group for the official content producers (i.e.: record labels, film studios, news media, television channels, sports associations, political parties, etc.)
A MotionMaker or an Official User can :
Using Stupeflix' technology, Dailymotion provides a tool for its users to create video slideshows. The link to the slideshow creation tool can be found from the option menu > settings > extra. Creating a slideshow takes a maximum of 30 pictures, and a music file. Stupeflix' slideshows are rendered in a MP4 video format, not Flash.
According to the article Tunisia: Video-sharing website Dailymotion Blocked! written by Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) April 11, 2007, Omar Mestiri, an editor of the opposition online newspaper "Kalima", is a victim of judicial harassment. Reporters Without Borders has said that a libel suit could result in a three-year prison sentence. RWB organization also called on the authorities to stop blocking Dailymotion, which has been inaccessible in Tunisia since April 1, 2007.
Reporters Without Borders said:
| “ | The lawsuit against Mestiri is absurd because it is based on an online article that cannot even be accessed from within Tunisia ... But we take this case very seriously. The three and a half year sentence imposed on lawyer Mohammed Abbou in April 2005 for an article posted online showed how the Tunisian courts are controlled by the government and how a libel suit can lead to a heavy sentence. | ” |
The press freedom organisation added:
| “ | The censorship of Dailymotion's website shows that the government, which is as paranoid about the Internet as it is about the traditional press, is ready to ban tens of thousands of inoffensive videos in order to block a handful it does not like. | ” |
The suit against Mestiri was brought by Tunisian lawyer Mohammed Baccar over an article posted on September 5, 2006 accusing him of fraud and forgery. Mestiri was summoned by the deputy state prosecutor to respond to a charge of libel on March 29. Mestiri's lawyers have challenged the suit's legal basis on the grounds that Kalima's site is blocked in Tunisia and the article couldn't have been accessed there.
Despite the relatively few videos about Libya in Dailymotion, it was blocked there from March 2010 to the fall of Muammar al-Ghaddafi in 2011.
Between the end of March and April 20, 2011, Dailymotion experienced technical problems with the Family Filter on the Australian site. As of April 20, this issue was resolved, which was confirmed by Dailymotion on its blog. [8][9]
Dailymotion with the help of Audible Magic, implemented an acoustic fingerprinting system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.[10] Dailymotion is also the first video sharing website to implement a video fingerprinting solution supplied by INA.[11]
In October 2010, Dailymotion Cloud was launched as a white label video hosting service to use excess bandwidth and existing resources. As of November 2011, they have 2,500 customers but have not achieved turnover targets.[12]