Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension.

Since February 18, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on an HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5-9 megabits for expected HD quality.

As of January 2008, the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day As of January 2008, Dailymotion had a global Alexa Internet ranking of 38.

Dailymotion allows users to browse videos by searching tags, channels or user-created groups; the search system also introduces results based on things other users have searched for. The maximum size of a video per file is 150 MB. Video limit is 20 minutes, with the exception of MotionMaker use, but with an unlimited file size and no time limit.

Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion are converted to the VP6 codec at a resolution of 320×240. MotionMaker users can upload at a resolution of 640×480 or 1280×720. Audio on Dailymotion videos are encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo.

Other Information

• Founded March 15, 2005
• Headquarters Flag of France Paris, France
• Key people Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder, Olivier Poitrey, Co-founder and CTO
• Employees 130 (2008)
• Slogan Regarder, publier, partager (Watch, publish, share)
• available in 16 languages
• Launched March 15, 2005

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