Dailymotion

Type	Private
Founded	March 15, 2005
Headquarters	Paris, 49-51 rue Ganneron, 18th arr., France
Key people	Cédric Tournay, CEO Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder Olivier Poitrey, Co-Founder & CTO
Owner	Dailymotion SA
Employees	100 (September 2010)
Slogan	Regarder, publier, partager (Watch, publish, share)
Website	dailymotion.com
Alexa rank	99 (May 2012[update])[1]
Type of site	Video hosting service
Advertising	contextual & video ads
Registration	Optional (required to upload/comment)
Available in	19 Countries and 12 languages
Launched	March 15, 2005
Current status	Active
Screenshot The Dailymotion homepage in Firefox

Dailymotion is a French-based video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. Its headquarters are in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France.^[2] According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.

As of October 2010^[update], the site was getting over 93 million unique visitors monthly and is the 32nd most visited website in the world.^[3]

Since February 18, 2008, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on a HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5–9 megabits for expected HD quality.^[4]

On January 25th, 2011, France Telecom's Orange entered exclusive negotiations with Dailymotion with a view to acquiring a 49% stake in the company for EUR 58.8M (hence valuing the company at EUR120M).^[5]

History[link]

The headquarters, 49-51 rue Ganneron, Paris

The founders of Dailymotion started the website from an apartment in Paris; the business launched from the living room of Olivier Poitrey, one of the founders. Six founders pooled together €6,000 ($9,271 USD) to start the website.^[6]

Background[link]

The dailymotion.com domain name was registered one month after youtube.com was registered.

Dailymotion allows users to browse and upload 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 file is 2 GB. The length of the video file is also limited to 60 minutes, except for the MotionMakers and the Official Users.

Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion used to be (until 2008, see below) converted to the VP6 format at a resolution of 320×240. Audio on Dailymotion videos used to be encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo.

In 2007, Dailymotion signed a major agreement with the Canal+ network to broadcast its television series in full on the site. All Canal+ videos are shown on an encrypted channel of the site with anti-piracy safeguards. Within a year, the site's revenue had increased to €10 million and they had an estimated 8 million unique visitors per month in France.^[7]

The partnership gave Dailymotion the financial backing it needed to upgrade its servers to handle High Definition video and showcase its MotionMaker videos. In February 2008, the HD quality (1280 × 720 pixels and 1.58 to 1.85 Mb/s) was made available to the MotionMaker users. In October 2008, the HQ quality (512 × 384 pixels, 30 images per second, H.264 is used for images and AAC at 96 kb/s for the sound) was made available to regular users.

In May 2009, Dailymotion announced that it would make its videos available using the HTML5 video element using an Ogg video format.^[8]

MotionMaker and Official User[link]

MotionMaker is a group for the original content creators. Official User is a group for the official content producers (i.e.: record labels, film studios, news media, television channels, sports associations, political parties, etc.)

A MotionMaker or an Official User can :

• Customize his/her profile
• Upload videos of unlimited length
• Upload Full HD quality videos (1920*1080p), whereas regular users are limited to Half HD (1280*720p)
• Benefit from an increased visibility
• Have an OfficialContent/CreativeContent overlay affixed on his video thumbnails

Hidden features[link]

Using Stupeflix' technology, Dailymotion provides a tool for its users to create video slideshows. The link to the slideshow creation tool can be found from the option menu > settings > extra. Creating a slideshow takes a maximum of 30 pictures, and a music file. Stupeflix' slideshows are rendered in a MP4 video format, not Flash.

Blocking of Dailymotion[link]

Tunisia[link]

According to the article Tunisia: Video-sharing website Dailymotion Blocked! written by Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) April 11, 2007, Omar Mestiri, an editor of the opposition online newspaper "Kalima", is a victim of judicial harassment. Reporters Without Borders has said that a libel suit could result in a three-year prison sentence. RWB organization also called on the authorities to stop blocking Dailymotion, which has been inaccessible in Tunisia since April 1, 2007.

Reporters Without Borders said:

The press freedom organisation added:

The suit against Mestiri was brought by Tunisian lawyer Mohammed Baccar over an article posted on September 5, 2006 accusing him of fraud and forgery. Mestiri was summoned by the deputy state prosecutor to respond to a charge of libel on March 29. Mestiri's lawyers have challenged the suit's legal basis on the grounds that Kalima's site is blocked in Tunisia and the article couldn't have been accessed there.

India[link]

Dailymotion is also banned in India since may 2012.^[9]

Libya[link]

Despite the relatively few videos about Libya on Dailymotion, it was blocked there from March 2010^{[citation needed]} to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Australia[link]

Between the end of March and April 20, 2011, Dailymotion experienced technical problems with the Family Filter on the Australian site. As of April 20, this issue was resolved, which was confirmed by Dailymotion on its blog. ^[10][11]

Copyright protection[link]

Dailymotion with the help of Audible Magic, implemented an acoustic fingerprinting system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.^[12] Dailymotion is also the first video sharing website to implement a video fingerprinting solution supplied by INA.^[13]

Dailymotion Cloud[link]

In October 2010, Dailymotion Cloud was launched as a white label video hosting service to use excess bandwidth and existing resources. As of November 2011, they have 2,500 customers but have not achieved turnover targets.^[14]

See also[link]

	Paris portal
	Companies portal
	Internet portal

• Comparison of video services

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dailymotion
• Dailymotion mobile website
• Dailymotion, with the HTML5 player for the reencoded videos
• Dailymotion, with the beta player
• Dailymotion blog
• Dailymotion Cloud
• Dailymotion on Twitter
• Dailymotion on Twitter - US division
• Dailymotion on Twitter

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Arnaud Montebourg
Minister of Productive Recovery
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2012
President	François Hollande
Prime Minister	Jean-Marc Ayrault
Preceded by	Eric Besson
Personal details
Born	(1962-10-30) 30 October 1962 (age 49) Clamecy
Political party	Socialist Party
Spouse(s)	Audrey Pulvar
Alma mater	Pantheon-Sorbonne University Institute of Political Studies, Paris

Arnaud Montebourg (born October 30, 1962, in Clamecy, Nièvre) is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008. Montebourg was also candidate to the socialist presidential primary of 2011.

He has been named France's Minister of Industrial Renewal in the New French government appointed under Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault in May 16, 2012.^[1]

Biography[link]

He is the son of Michel Montebourg, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of Wālis from Hachem, northern Algeria.^[2]

Arnaud Montebourg became an attorney following university. Together with the notable attorney Thierry Levy, he defended Christian Didier, charged in the 1994 slaying of René Bousquet.^[3] The former Vichy official had been indicted for war crimes and was soon to be tried. Didier was convicted in 1995 and received a 10-year sentence.^[4]

Politics[link]

Together with Bastien François, a Professor of Political Science at the Sorbonne University, in 2001 Montebourg was the cofounder of the Convention pour la Vie République (C6R). This convention called for significant constitutional changes, leading to the founding of a "Sixth Republic".

Montebourg was one of the founding members of the political movement known as the Nouveau Parti Socialiste (New Socialist Party). He left to create a new movement within the socialist party called Rénover, Maintenant (Renewal Now). He was one of the leading opponents of President Jacques Chirac's immunity from prosecution, especially concerning the corruption scandals in the Paris region. Montebourg also supported reporter Denis Robert for his role in revealing the illegal system of double-accounts maintained by Clearstream, a clearing-house based in Luxembourg.

He has been engaged in a campaign against the rules governing taxation of foreign nationals and banking secrecy of Switzerland.^[5]

Montebourg was appointed as spokesman for Ségolène Royal's presidential campaign following his endorsement of her candidacy during the Socialist Party primary election of November 2006. On January 18, 2007, Royal suspended Montebourg from her campaign for one month the day after he said on a Canal+ talk show, "Ségolène Royal has only one fault, her partner."^[6] He was referring to the contradictory statements with regard to tax policy made by Royal's partner, François Hollande, who is also a leader of the Socialist Party. Montebourg had offered his resignation, which Royal refused to accept.

In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail and flew back to France, Montebourg urged him to apologize for embarrassing the Socialist Party^[7].

He ranked third in the Parti Socialiste's primary election for the 2012 French presidential election, receiving about 17% of the votes. (François Hollande was first and Martine Aubry was second).

Marriage and family[link]

In 2010, celebrity magazines revealed that he was in a relationship with Audrey Pulvar, a French television journalist.

Political career[link]

Governmental function

Minister of Industrial Renewal : Since May 2012.

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

Member of the National Assembly of France for Saône-et-Loire (6th constituency) : 1997-2012 (Became minister in may 2012). Elected in 1997, reelected in 2002, 2007.

General Council

President of the General Council of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.

General councillor of Saône-et-Loire : Since 2008.

References[link]

External links[link]

• (French) Personal website
• (French) Webpage from the National Assembly site
• Michael C. Behrent, "Stop the World": Arnaud Montebourg and "Deglobalization"(blog post)

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Fleur Pellerin
Junior Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and the Digital Economy
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2012
Personal details
Born	(1973-08-29) 29 August 1973 (age 38) Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater	ESSEC Institute of Political Studies, Paris National School of Administration, Strasbourg

Fleur Pellerin (French pronunciation: [flœʁ pɛl.ʁɛ̃]; born on 29 August 1973 in Seoul), is a politician and junior minister in the French government. She was appointed Junior Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and the Digital Economy at the Ministry for Productive Recovery (the former Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industry) by President François Hollande on 16 May 2012.

A former high-ranking civil servant at the French Court of Auditors, she was in charge of societal and digital economy issues in François Hollande's 2012 French presidential election campaign.^[1]

Early life[link]

Pellerin was born in 1973 in Seoul, South Korea. She was abandoned on the streets of Seoul when she was three or four days old and was sent to an orphanage. She was adopted six months later by a French family.^[2][3] Her original name was Jong-suk Kim (김종숙, 金鍾淑).

See also[link]

Adoption in France

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fleur Pellerin website