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CommentFriday, August 31, 2007

Dailymotion Draws In $34 Million

3 Comments

By Fred Destin (WPN reader) - Sat, 09/01/2007 - 10:54

Ah the ranking battles :-)

Ben at DailyMotion also obsesses about his ranking month-on-month, tweaks the pages to get a slightly better navigational here or there and tracks what that does to length of visits. All great and part of the programme. The battle of the statistics is a bit tiring, eveyone stating the month that suits them best etc. The reality is simple: both DailyMotion and Metacafe are very proactive on the copyright infringement front and as a result removed a ton of videos, which is having an impact on their growth in the US. My personal bet on recent trends and site centric videos as is that we at DailyMotion are quite a bit ahead of our respected competitors at Metacafe, but that Veoh is now probably ahead (US only). As far as copyright protection goes (and whilst I am delighted and impressed that they are taking a strong legal stance) Veoh seem to be doing nothing more than what the law requires i.e. responding to takedown notices. But somehow no one seems to care much :-) Must be the Eisner halo effect ...

PS thanks for the nice plug

By Allyson Campa (WPN reader) - Fri, 08/31/2007 - 12:13

Site rankings

Hi Doug,

I would encourage you to cite your source for rankings. Although all the 3rd parties understate traffic dramatically, we have found comScore as the best source. Most recent US numbers from comScore Media Metrix have Metacafe at 6.2M, Daily Motion at 3.1M, and Veoh at 2.8M. (July monthly unique visitors.)

Thanks,
Allyson Campa, Metacafe

By Doug Caverly - Fri, 08/31/2007 - 12:50

Hitwise

Thanks for reading. Those rankings came from Hitwise, by way of Eric Eldon (the last link in my article), and also correspond to July. Hitwise puts the U.S. market shares of Dailymotion, Metacafe, and Veoh at 0.76, 1.09, and 1.57 percent, respectively.