Dailymotion Blog

So, as one of our competitors launched a French version yesterday, we would like to announce that, according to Alexa, Comscore, and Nielsen Net Ratings, we have the largest audience of any online video site in France.

We would also like to let you know that earlier this week we charted as 48th most-trafficked website in the world according to Alexa (June 18, 2007 data based on page views and visitors), and the 14th most trafficked French website according to Nielsen (all categories together).

We owe these strong figures to you. Thank you. We will look forward to offering you ever-better features and services in the months to come.

You’ll notice the homepage looks a little different today. We’re excited to let you know that we have developed a Dailymotion portal accessible by the soon-to-be-released, Wi-Fi ready Archos 605 personal media player. Check out this video of the Archos in action:

It’s neither a psychology test nor a delirious geek trip

At Dailymotion, we got it into our heads to customize our 404 pages with your videos!
A special group called “404 page not found” was created for the occasion.

Participating is simple:

1. Create a funny video with your camera or your webcam - make sure it is less than 5 seconds.
2. Add it to your Dailymotion account
3. Subscribe to the group “404 page not found“.
4. Finally, add your video to the 404 group!

A video is randomly selected from the group to play each time a user winds up at the 404 page.

Your 404 video could be shown the next time someone hits a dead end!

An example : http://www.dailymotion.com/a_not_found_page

Recommendations :

• Raise your shoulders and wrinkle your eyebrows in astonishment.
• Make a video of your 404 tattoo!
• Do something more creative and unexpected with the numbers “404″.
• The sky’s the limit - show us any interpretation of “lost”, “disappeared”, “empty”, whatever!

Do you take your 404 errors laying down - or do you do something about them?