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Dailymotion.com
First online video sharing platform in France
Dailymotion
• Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, based in Paris, France.
• 91st most used website in the world, 13rd in France (source:Alexa)
Short history• Created in 2005 by Benjamin Bejbaum and
Olivier Poitrey to share videos of their travel to NYC
• September 2006, they raised 7Me and become the biggest 2.0 French website
• October 2009, the French government entered in the capital and has now one representative in the directors board
• Until now, Dailymotion didn’t exist on the stock exchange market
User definition
Some users are knowed as ‘MotionMaker’. They have to register with a specific process and have no upload limit.
The content they add is labeled as ‘Creative content’.
Code & Development
• Dailymotion has his own video player (Flash engine )
• Since 2009, a open-source PHP Framework (Symphony) is used
Dailymotion on TV
• Since 2009, Dailymotion videos are broadcasted on a specific TV channel available with a Neufbox suscribtion
Dailymotion and Cinema
• Once a week, Dailymotion videos are broadcasted in a few cinema in Paris.
Mobile platform
• Since 2007, a mobile version of Dailymotion is available
Dailymotion and Fench politics
• For the presidential election in 2007, Dailymotion was used as the main support for candidates’ campain propaganda
• Every candidate opened their own channel to broadcast campain meetings and promotionnal movie clips
Politics tag war
• Some campain content was tagged with famous french actor names in order to increase view rates
• On the other hand, some candidate videos was tagged with words as ‘porn’, ‘nazi’ in order to make the content censored by Dailymotion
Dailymotion and Censorship
• Dailymotion is blocked :– In China since June 2008– In Tunisia since April 11, 2007 – In Turkey since August 2008 – In Lybia since March 2010
Dailymotion and justice
• Dailymotion was sued by several TV channels and private enterprises for use of copyrighted content
• In April 2008, the French Department of Justice stated about the ‘hosting service’ nature of the website – opposed to ‘content provider service’.
• Dailymotion won the courtcase.