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More Indian ISPs Block Torrent Sites, Dailymotion, Even Xmarks

Private companies are continuing to play with what millions of internet users in India can and cannot see. Last week, several BitTorrent sites along with other stranger choices like Vimeo were blocked by at least one ISP. Now, others are joining, though the original block has been lifted in some cases. There's ...

17 May 2012
08:01 GMT

Flattr Scores Big with Dailymotion Partnership

Flattr has been around for a while now and, while it has seen some adoption, it hasn't exactly revolutionized the way people repay the artist or creators they like. But Flattr has now scored a major victory, partnering with Dailymotion to integrate the payments system into the video site. Dailymotion will be en...

2 May 2012
09:11 GMT

Dailymotion Videos Shoot Up in June in the US

There's a reason why all of your favorite TV shows take a break during the summer, no one watches TV during this time. This seems to be true for online video as well, which is also seeing a slump in viewer numbers in the first month of summer. According to Nielsen data, while viewership is slightly down, ther...

21 July 2011
05:21 GMT

Survey Scammers Lure Simpsons Fans with Free Online Episodes

Scammers are posting fake episodes of The Simpsons on video sharing websites to trick users into participating in adware-pushing surveys.Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab have spotted such scams on Dailymotion, the second-most trafficked video sharing site after YouTube.The rogue video entries ...

27 January 2011
04:19 GMT

Orange Buys 49 Percent of Dailymotion for $80 Million

Orange, or rather France Telecom as the company is actually named, is buying a 49 percent stake in Dailymotion the second largest video site on the web. It's paying €59 million, about $80 million, for it, valuating the company at about €120 million, a steal at first glance. Of course, with revenues of ...

25 January 2011
09:50 GMT

Dailymotion Traffic Surges in the Past Six Months

Dailymotion, the European online video outfit, is seeing some impressive growth with traffic surging in the past six months, according to the company. The number of unique visitors grew by almost 50 percent since May and is getting close to 100 million monthly visitors.According to comScore numbers, released by the v...

29 November 2010
13:52 GMT

Dailymotion Signs with Warner Music in Another Major Music-Video Deal

Dailymotion continues to solidify its position in the online video market with a new partnership with Warner Music Group, one of the four major music labels. This comes less than a month after the site announced a very similar deal with EMI, the smallest of the four. Under the new deal, WMG music videos will be avail...

9 March 2010
06:45 GMT

Peter Gabriel's The Filter Signs Video Recommendations Deal with Dailymotion

Dailymotion's video recommendations are about to get better, or, at least, that is the hope of the new deal with white-label recommendations and discovery engine The Filter, the brainchild of British rock icon Peter Gabriel. The Filter will provide video recommendations for Dailymotion's 66 million internat...

2 March 2010
11:27 GMT

Dailymotion to Expand Music Video Catalogue with EMI Deal

Slowly but surely, music is making its way online the way users want it to be, free and universally available. We're not quite there yet, but a new deal between Dailymotion and EMI is taking it one step closer. The European video outlet will begin hosting videos from EMI artists starting April and will make the...

11 February 2010
08:28 GMT

Dailymotion Launches New Toolbar Powered by Conduit

Dailymotion, though not a household name in the US, is the second largest online video site in the world, though it still has a lot of headroom to grow. To spur that growth the site has introduced a new toolbar for its users in partnership with Conduit, a custom toolbar maker and distribution platform. The hope is th...

22 September 2009
07:11 GMT

Dailymotion Adds Support for HTML 5

Dailymotion, one of the biggest video hosting sites in the world, has launched, with support from the Mozilla Foundation, a version of its site that uses only the HTML 5 'video' tag for video playback. This makes it the first large video sharing site to implement the feature and the move will allow users to...

1 June 2009
05:46 GMT

Google's YouTube Rules the World

Although it was already a well known fact that Google's YouTube is one of the most popular services on the net and the clear leader of the online video sharing industry, a new report published by comScore comes to support this statement: Google's video websites gained the leader chair in US, Canada, UK, Fra...

10 April 2008
09:14 GMT

MTV Videos Now Available on the Web

The MTV videos will be soon available on the web on several online video services, after the parent company Viacom has signed deals with five new websites. Dailymotion, GoFish, iMee, MeeVee and Veoh Network are the five lucky services that have the chance to boost their number of visitors using the content provided b...

8 January 2008
09:39 GMT

Here's Some Money to Crush YouTube

The online video sharing platform Dailymotion received no less than $34 million in funds from several companies in order to become more powerful and to compete with the famous YouTube. Among the investors, we can mention AGF Private Equity and Advent Venture Partners, two companies that aim to fight with the super gi...

5 September 2007
05:40 GMT

YouTube Rival Humiliated in Court

DailyMotion is just one of the YouTube-like services that were also involved in copyright infringement cases but this time, the things are almost 100 percent different. A French judge decided that DailyMotion is guilty of copyright infringement as long as it can be described as a hosting provider. Brad Spitz, a Frenc...

27 July 2007
09:46 GMT


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