Dailymotion
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site | video sharing |
| Available in | 19 Countries and 12 languages |
| Founded | March 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Paris, 49-51 rue Ganneron, 18th arr. , |
| Owner | Reliance Entertainment |
| Key people | Cédric Tournay, CEO Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder Olivier Poitrey, Co-Founder & CTO Roland Hamilton, MD US Martin Rogard, MD France |
| Employees | 100 (September 2010) |
| URL | dailymotion.com |
| Advertising | contextual & video ads |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload/comment) |
| Launched | March 15, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
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]
History
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]
Background
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 and Official User
MotionMaker is a group for the original content creators. Official User is a group for the official content producers (record labels, film studios, news media, television channels, sports associations, political parties...).
A MotionMaker or an Official User can :
- Customize his/her profile.
- Upload videos of unlimited length.
- Upload HD quality videos.
- Benefit from an increased visibility.
- Have an OfficialContent/CreativeContent overlay affixed on his video thumbnails.
Hidden Features
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.
Blocking of Dailymotion
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.
Libya
Despite the relatively few videos about Libya in Dailymotion, it was blocked there from March 2010[citation needed] to the fall of Muammar al-Ghaddafi in 2011.[citation needed]
Australia
Between end of March and April the 20th Dailymotion experienced technical problems with the Family Filter on the Australian site. As of April 20 this issue has been resolved, which was confirmed by Dailymotion on its blog. [8] [9]
Copyright protection
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]
Dailymotion Cloud
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].
See also
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References
- ^ "About us." Dailymotion. Retrieved on 5 January 2010. "Registered office: 49/51 rue Ganneron, 75018 Paris."
- ^ "Dailymotion Hits 70 Million Monthly Uniques with 57 Percent Jump in North America: Launches in Australia, Next Morocco". September 30, 2010.
- ^ Lowensohn, Josh (February 19, 2008). "Dailymotion gets high-definition videos". Webware. CNET Networks. Retrieved 2008-06-26..
- ^ Orange Press Release
- ^ Carvajal, Doreen. "Taking on the Godzilla of video-sharing sites." The New York Times. Friday 21 March 2008. Retrieved on 4 May 2011.
- ^ Gonzalès, Paule (2008-10-04). "Dailymotion signe avec la major du cinéma Warner". Le Figaro (in French). p. 30. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
- ^ http://blog.dailymotion.com/index.php/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
- ^ "Dailymotion Family Filter Is Broken For Australian Users". April 7, 2011.
- ^ "Dailymotion Family Filter Is Broken For Australian Users". April 21, 2011.
- ^ http://www.dailymotion.com/press/AudibleMagic-Dailymotion.pdf
- ^ http://www.dailymotion.com/press/PR_20080225_ina_implementation_final.pdf
- ^ "Dailymotion Cloud: le streaming vidéo pour les entreprises". 2011-11-15.