Dailymotion comes to defy YouTube in the United States 2007-06-26
Difficult to have missed the YouTube unloading in France which has occurred in large pump last week. The service of video division of Google clearly comes to go on the plat bands of the national champion Dailymotion. But one is unaware of more often than the reverse also occurs.
Last April, the American cabinet of audience Internet ComScore carried out a specific classification Video Metrix bearing on six video services, which are traditionally not registered in its US Signal 10 video properties.
He arises that, among this group of alternate actors with YouTube, Dailymotion arrives in first position. A double performance since Dailymotion posts the greatest number of Net surfers who streament vidéos since his platform but also because the time spent for each “streamer” ranks above the other applicants (except for Veoh.com).
How to explain this opening? Contacted by Vnunet.fr, Benjamin Bejbaum, cofounder of Dailymotion, finds this position natural taking into account the efforts provided to be appreciated American Net surfers: first of all, the service is bilingual (French-English) since its launching in February 2005. “France accounts for only 45% of our total traffic”, specifies the Net-contractor. Knowing that the platform is from now on accessible in 13 languages. The referencing of the service on the engines influences the traffic little (only 12% of the visits on Dailymotion come from an initial request engine).
All in all, Benjamin Bejbaum estimates that Dailymotion occupies the second world place for the division of the vidéos. But, in the
