Dailymotion is a website where users can upload, watch and share videos . It hosts a variety of movie clips, TV shows, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as vlogs.
It is one of the largest video platforms in the world, offering a mix of content between users, independent creators and premium partners. Its headquarters are in Paris , France.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Copyright protection
- 3 Sources
- 4 References
History
His domain was registered a month after YouTube’s (but the site opened a month earlier) with gandi.net, a French Internet domain registry, and he had at least one server hosted in France with the well-known .fr extension. Dailymotion became the first serious YouTube competition in its history.
As of January 2008, the site was ranked # 38 in daily visits by Alexa Internet, with 26 million visits per day and 16,000 new videos uploaded per day. Since February 18 of that year, the website supports content that can be played at 720p on a high-definition device. Dailymotion supports and sponsors the non-profit project One Laptop Per Child, closing an agreement with the NGO in the same year.
In June 2015, Vivendi bought an 80% stake in Dailymotion from its previous owner, Orange SA, thus becoming the new owner. In October, Dailymotion launched a new feature called “Repost” for sharing snippets of favorite videos.
Copyright protection
Dailymotion, unlike YouTube, specializes in short films of semi-professional creation, not in videos of television shows (although this content is frequent); So with the help of Audible Magic software, you have implemented a “fingerprint” type acoustic system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.
Sources
- “Dailymotion.com – Alexa traffic details” (html). Alexa Internet.
- Richards, Jonathan (November 2006). “French video site takes on YouTube with local offering” (html). Times Online. Retrieved June 26, 2008.
- Lowensohn, Josh (February 2008). “Dailymotion gets high-definition videos” (html). Webware. CNET Networks. Retrieved June 26, 2008.
- Vivendi buys 80% of the capital of Dailymotion La Vanguardia from Orange, June 30, 2015
