Dailymotion Blog

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?

Hello Everyone,

Over the last two months we have developed a new, more secure video
view counter. Before, a view was added whenever a page was reloaded,
and some crafty folks had a little fun gaming the popularity system on
Dailymotion.

Now, our counter has been updated so that it cannot represent false
views. Some figures might be lower than before, but they show the true
number of views, not the effects of a script or a bot. Keep your eyes
on the meter… you may be pleasantly surprised!

Cheers,

Small but a lot more is coming up really soon:
- changed layout for tools on user and group lists.
- changed layout for video previews (bigger title and duration on preview)
- faster search engine
- new pagination on search and comments on the player page
- new russian translation

The debate between Ségolène Royal and François Bayrou, broadcast live on BFM TV and RMC, is also available as a live stream on Dailymotion, starting now.
Watch the full video on www.dailymotion.com/rmc.

Update: the video of the debate

Because there’s a little geek in all of us, we are pleased to announce that Akihabara News is using Dailymotion to host and distribute their videos. Akihabara News covers high-tech products straight out of Japan, and is available in eight languages. We are big fans of this site, their videos, their excellent articles, and the quality of their product reviews. We thank them for their confidence in Dailymotion. Don’t hesitate to check out their page!

In the same vein, and by the same authors, we have also established a partnership with Nihon Car. Nihon Car reviews the latest Japanese cars and bikes, visits Japanese auto shows and, in short, breaks every sort of motoring news from the Land of the Rising Sun. Be sure to discover their videos, which are worthy of the best television broadcasts.

If you also have a Web site, a production studio, a comedy troup, a talented music group, or otherwise produce creative content, do not hesitate to contact us and we’ll see what we can do together.

The Dailymotion Team

The Dailymotion team is really excited to be selected as one of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year. Dailymotion was selected by the Red Herring editorial staff from more than 700 applications. Companies like Google, eBay and Skype were spotted in their early days by the Red Herring, and we are honored to join them.

As a result, we will be presenting at the Venture Market Europe (VME) 2007 event which takes place March 25-27, at the Intercontinental Carlton in Cannes, France.

Hello All!

For a few months we have been working on an updated version of Dailymotion, and today we have the honor of presenting you with our new beta.

At http://beta.dailymotion.com, you will find:

• a larger site, to better promote your work,
• a clearer site, re-designed for ease of navigation,
• a more useful site, which offers related videos, a faster search engine, new group and profile page layouts, a unified upload page, and the much-awaited option of choosing the video featured on your profile page.

This is just the beginning of a new era for Dailymotion, as we have other features and functionalities in the works… Just hold tight!

If you would like to let us know of any bugs in the beta - or if you would like to congratulate our team on the new version - you only need one address: beta@dailymotion.com

Here are your videos :

Thanks to Isilon and Dell. And of course Olivier (in real life, he’s not looking so stupid) and his team !

In order to feature the most creative content, and to encourage tomorrow’s talent, Dailymotion is launching the MotionMaker program. This program is intended to give more recognition to creative users, and will permit us to feature members’ videos both within and outside of the site. We will do our best to make your content visible to the largest audience.

Other benefits of this program include unlimited video upload (both size and duration) and a badge on your personal page identifying you as a MotionMaker in the community.

Now you have even more tools to express yourself, and to earn recognition for your work!

How does it work?

Click on the MotionMaker link in the footer of the website, choose a user category (musician, entertainer, filmmaker, or reporter), and follow the instructions. This program is currently in beta, so please check the FAQ or contact us for more information.

Please be aware that we will delete all videos with copyrighted content (even on the soundtrack) submitted to the program. Keep your nose clean, and have fun!

This evening, Dailymotion decided to visit their nice neighbours from Metro dailynewspapers (they are located on the 2nd floor in the same building) for a little joke.

Enjoy & Merry christmas!