Dailymotion
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | March 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters |  Paris, France |
| Key people | Ian Brotherston, CEO Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder Olivier Poitrey, CTO Martin Rogard, MD France Joy Marcus, MD US |
| Employees | 130 (2008)[citation needed] |
| Slogan | Regarder, publier, partager (Watch, publish, share) |
| Website | www.dailymotion.com List of domain |
| Type of site | video sharing |
| Advertising | contextual & video ads |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload) |
| Available in | 19 Countries and 12 languages |
| Launched | March 15, 2005 |
| Current status | active |
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Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension.
Since February 18, 2008, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on an HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5-9 megabits for expected HD quality.[1]
As of April 2009[update], the site was getting over 55 million unique visitors monthly and visitors viewed approximately 17 billion pages since the start of the year. [2] As of January 2008[update], the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day [3] As of January 2009[update], Dailymotion had a global Comscore ranking of 42.[2]
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[edit] Background
Dailymotion allows users to browse 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 per file is 150 MB. Video limit is 20 minutes, with the exception of Motionmaker use, but with an unlimited file size and no time limit.
Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion are converted to the VP6 codec at a resolution of 320x240. Motionmaker users can upload at a resolution of 640x480 or 1280x720. Audio on Dailymotion videos are encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo.
[edit] International Addresses
Please note that these URL addresses may redirect to other domains depending on your location.
[edit] Blocking of Dailymotion
[edit] Tunisia
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.
The blocking of Dailymotion may have been prompted by the posting of a number of videos on the political situation in Tunisia, such as [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and [6]. The Cybervision website has been tracking this issue[7].
[edit] China
As with many other websites, Dailymotion was blocked by the Chinese government on August 29, 2007[citation needed].
[edit] Turkey
Dailymotion has been blocked in Turkey since May 7, 2009. A block with no indicated reason was also imposed in August 2008. Unblocked the 12 May 2009[4] See also Internet censorship in Turkey.
[edit] Copyright protection
Dailymotion with the help of Audible Magic, implemented an acoustic fingerprinting system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.[5] Dailymotion is also the first video sharing website to implement a video fingerprinting solution supplied by INA.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] HTML 5 Adoption
On June 2, 2009 Dailymotion[7] announced on their blog that they were going to introduce HTML 5 and that their existing 300,000 videos were going be converted to Ogg Theora + Vorbis. This ensures that user does not need a Flash plug to view videos on Dailymotion but needs to have a HTML 5 compatible browser such as Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10.
[edit] References
- ^ Lowensohn, Josh (19 February 2008). "Dailymotion gets high-definition videos" (in English) (html). Webware. CNET Networks. http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9874323-2.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-26..
- ^ a b "Roland Hamilton Joins Dailymotion US as SVP of Sales as Company Continues Rapid Growth". April 30, 2009. http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090429005749&newsLang=en.
- ^ Richards, Jonathan (16 November 2006). "French video site takes on YouTube with local offering" (in English) (html). Times Online. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2456282,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-26..
- ^ Türkiye'de Yasaklı İnternet Sitelerine DailyMotion da Eklendi (Turkish)
- ^ http://www.dailymotion.com/press/AudibleMagic-Dailymotion.pdf
- ^ http://www.dailymotion.com/press/PR_20080225_ina_implementation_final.pdf
- ^ http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
