November 17, 2006
French video site takes on YouTube with local offering
The Times Online gives Paris based Daily Motion a write up.
"French video-sharing website Daily Motion is taking on the might of YouTube by offering content which caters specifically to local viewers - an area the internationally-minded YouTube may have overlooked.
The majority of the videos on the site are French but the site also has posts in English, German, Spanish and Italian.
Users were also likely to be drawn to the site’s unique features, such as the ability to stream directly from a webcam - a capability YouTube doesn’t have - and upload videos from mobiles."
Business Week in a related article, also ponders whether Daily Motion - already reaching 16 million page-views a day - could challenge YouTube.
And not mentioned in either of these articles, is Daily Motion's cult appeal to European fans of American television series, as the latest episodes of some of the most popular series (Weeds, Desperate Housewives, The OC, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break, The Shield, Heroes, Entourage), are uploaded for streaming right after they are broadcast in the US. This has tremendous appeal as most of the popular shows are scheduled on French or Swiss TV six months to a year after you've seen them in the US.
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