Dailymotion is a French video sharing platform launched in 2005. It is the largest video sharing site in France and among the most visited sites worldwide. Dailymotion allows users called "MotionMakers" to upload unlimited creative content. It has its own video player and uses an open-source PHP framework. Videos are also broadcast on TV and in some Paris cinemas. Dailymotion has faced legal issues over copyrighted content but courts have upheld its status as a hosting rather than content-generating service.

1. Dailymotion.com
First online video sharing platform in France

2. Dailymotion
• Dailymotion is a video sharing service
website, based in Paris, France.
• 91st most used website in the world, 13rd
in France (source:Alexa)

3. 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

4. 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’.

5. Code & Development
• Dailymotion has his own video player
(Flash engine )
• Since 2009, a open-source PHP
Framework (Symphony) is used

6. Dailymotion on TV
• Since 2009, Dailymotion videos are
broadcasted on a specific TV channel
available with a Neufbox suscribtion

7. Dailymotion and Cinema
• Once a week,
Dailymotion videos
are broadcasted in
a few cinema in
Paris.

8. Mobile platform
• Since 2007, a
mobile version of
Dailymotion is
available

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.