Dailymotion

Dailymotion
URL	https://www.dailymotion.com
Status	Online! but Endangered
Archiving status	Upcoming...
Archiving type	DPoS
Project source	dailymotion-grab, dailymotion-items
IRC channel	#dailydemotion (on hackint)

Dailymotion is a video hosting and sharing platform, similar to YouTube but based in Paris, France.

Since their website layout was redesigned, the website heavily relies on JavaScript and AJAX/XHR (also known as “extraload” or “extraloading” for YouTube comments), which makes it inaccessible to the Wayback Machine.

Dailymotion's comment feature was removed in 2018, making all existing comments invisible. As of May 2019, there has not been any official comment about this removal.

Dailymotion has a sorted index of every video that is available on the platform, which has been at last archived using ArchiveBot on May 10th 2019 (job:3dedmphre3j84gvxtoxr6zn4f).

In 2013, Dailymotion came the closest to its demise due to nearly having been purchased by Yahoo, which would likely have lead to its shutdown regarding the history of Yahoo. However, the acquisition was blocked by the French government.

Inactive Videos

On 2025-01-30, Dailymotion sent an Email to users informing them that videos that have not been accessed within the last 12 months will be deleted 3 months after the Email notification. A DPoS project is planned to save them.

Lack of warning and cultural impact

There was no warning in a visible spot that could have alerted users to preserve any wanted content locally. The only public indication of this impending purge was an obscure help center page.

Dailymotion used to be a treasure trove of reuploaded YouTube videos and unedited 2000s home videos. Many of them have been permanently lost as a result of this policy.

Tools

• dailymotion-dl: hacky shell script