Thread 105801941

Why is Dailymotion way less popular than YouTube?

Dailymotion was once a promising competitor to YouTube, but now it's pretty much almost entirely videos from established companies. Their front page is almost entirely content from established magazines like Us Weekly, People Magazine and GQ. There is also practically no community there, the top videos appear to have have zero comments.

>>105801941 (OP)
mostly shit quality on vids, and shitty search.
That said, I find quite a bit of docus to watch there, but it seems like every series has a couple vids from one account, a couple others in different res from another, etc

>>105801941 (OP)
failed to be what is was supposed to be

They don't have pockets as deep as Google's
They don't have the most popular search engine to promote it
Plus today their website manages to offer a somewhat worse experience than YouTube (autoplays some random video next, really heavy frontend, dysfunctional search already mentioned)

>>105801941 (OP)
Removed the free porn posted on it. I used to use it as a safe way to view Milena Velba content because bare breasts didn't break its European based rules.

Always looked kind of like a bootleg site to me so I never took it seriously. Vimeo had a better shot.

>>105801941 (OP)
>Why is Dailymotion way less popular than YouTube?

Alphabet literally threw away billions of us dollars to pay "content" creators for years. Youtube only became profitable once they reached +300 millions of premium subscribers.

Who remembers stage6?

>>105801941 (OP)
The site layout is total garbage and always has been. You think YouTube is 'bad' until then you visit dailymotion

>>105801941 (OP)
>>105802607
Speaking of, why didn't Vimeo take off either?

youtube was the first to do it. People don't want to switch. Look how popular iphones are. They were the first to do it.

>>105803522
Vimeo doesn't have ads and requires users to pay for storage

>>105803613
>YouTube, founded in mid February 2005
>Dailymotion, founded mid March 2005
Surely a month and a day make a whole difference…

>>105802817
Do you think it was planned, I doubt it, they just had the money to waste and hoped for the best if they even hoped for anything and it wasn't just some inner bureaucracy stuff.

i don't remember what year it was, but at one point i was having trouble finding a torrent of this foreigner game show, and after some digging found two seasons of it in full on dailymotion. which was better than nothing. i watched some other stuff on there as well, but over time videos were getting taken down from DMCA or w/e. so i stopped including it as part of my searchs