Dailymotion
DailyMotion is a video portal of the same French company, can be uploaded at the videos and publicly viewed. Dailymotion was founded in Paris in 2005 and is today one of the world's leading video portals on the Internet. Today there are several offices in Paris, Barcelona, London, Athens, Mumbai and New York City. There are 11 localized portal pages, which contain a self programming. Total has been translated into 20 languages.
History
Dailymotion was founded in February 2005 by Benjamin Bejbaum as CEO and Olivier Poitrey as CTO. Was considered one of the top 50 global sites recorded a traffic growth of more than 75 percent alone in the second quarter of 2007 Dailymotion. In July 2007, the site of more than 37 million unique users visited and was able to reach over 1.3 billion page views. By 2009, 40 million euro venture capital could be taken. In the first half of 2010, the German page was visited monthly by about 2 million unique users. 2011 Orange acquired 49 percent of the company for 60 million euros. Early 2013 eventually bought the remaining 51 % Orange for a further 60 million euros.
Technical
Dailymotion users can browse videos by tags, themes, channels or groups founded by users. Users can capture video from up to 2 GB and with a length of 60 minutes to upload ( compared to YouTube: 2 gigabytes or 20 gigabytes and 15 minutes and 12 hours for SMS - confirmed accounts). If you MotionMaker or Motion Partner, is a program for especially creative user or partner, you can upload videos of unlimited length.
Dailymotion True Motion VP6 codec comes with a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels are used. Since mid-2009, it is possible to see on DailyMotion videos free video format Ogg Theora. So you can play, for example, using the Firefox browser version 3.5 the video without additional expansion.
Affiliate Programs
The Official Content program provides the official partners such as CNN, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Universal or German wave of the page:
- An unlimited number, duration and size of the video files
- Improved coding and access to broadcast in HD
- The opportunity to be selected as the Video Star on the Dailymotion homepage ( in several countries or worldwide, depending on the language of the trailer )
- An adjustable official account (colors, clickable banner, background )
- A free advertising opportunity within the Dailymotion network (display with 300 × 100 pixels )
- The integration of video tools such as video wall, Videozap, player and uploader (eg for video contests )