DailyMotion

I used to love this website. But now, just too many ads...too many. Ads showing up while watching the video. Videos don't load right anymore. Just too annoying. No longer good.

Out of all the video hosting sites, this is probably one of the okay ones because they allow videos longer than 10 minutes, plus they don't mess around with your videos like YouTube does. Oh, and they don't have a close your account form. That's about it.

I'm amazed at all the negative reviews. I've watched hours of TV dramas and docs on here that I can't find anywhere else - or certainly not for free. Other than some (but not all) having a couple of minutes of ads at the start and maybe half way through - just like TV does - my experience has been very positive. The quality isn't always 100% and there's sometimes a slight sound lag but if you've ever tried watching RTE player then you'll find DM a big improvement! As I said, maybe I've just been lucky but to me it's a great resource for programmes I've missed and aren't available to me on catch up.

What ads?
I'm reading all these reviews about there's too many ads on Dailymotion, has people not heard about using an "ADBLOCK"? I haven't seen any ads in years. I am however aware of how bad the ads are on Dailymotion lol, which is why i said to use an adblock. That's all you have to do.

As for Dailymotion in general, the entire site has changed for the worse over the years. But there's some good points which is why i always come back and stay using this site. I will covered the good and bad.

The Good: Quicker and easier way to get verified badge over YouTube. More easy to navigate and browse the site, doesn't feel sluggish, don't need a phone number to access all features, faster uploading system over YouTube, faster optimizing videos over YouTube. Most Important, the Copyright System is way less strict compared to YouTube, you can upload more content which doesn't get flagged.

The Bad: Comments are gone, recently banners were removed, feature videos is gone, the entire user channel design has changed and it looks awful and too plain looking, no categories section, the new front page looks awful, can't see your subscribers, there's no following videos tab on the front page, no dark mode. I uploaded 3 photos, you can see clearly that the entire website front and user channel is terrible looking.

The Bottom line: Despite all the features being removed from Dailymotion, Overall the experience dealing with Dailymotion is better. If you're seeing ads just use an AdBlock, problem solved. I do hope most of the features come back to Dailymotion and more importantly they need to completely redesign the user channel design, its way too ugly and stupid looking now. Now sure what the staff is thinking. Why would you remove banners from a user channel? I would choose Dailymotion over YouTube for the simple fact that the copyright system is way better and less hassle signing up to the site and uploading speed is faster.

The worst free movie streaming website on the net. Pay the $4 if the movie is available in pay-per-view. You will be subjected to over 100 ads, mostly repetitive, which will greatly interfere with the continuity of the movie.

Whenever I'm looking for videos online and Google returns a link to DailyMotion my heart sinks because I know I can't use it.

I can't understand why it's so bad-You Tube usually works very well on my tablet or computer. Surely DM's aims are the same as those of YT, that is to allow people to watch or upload video clips.

I'd be the first to admit that I don't update my software nearly as often as I should as I have suffered technical issues with Windows updates that have required professional repairs, so I avoid them! The point is that despite this YT still works but DM doesn't.

I did contact them about my problems and their reply boiled down to 'make sure all your players are up to date'. I just don't understand why this is necessary for DM but not YT. Best avoided I think but it's frustrating when what you're after is only on DailyMotion.

I have used this site with the help of adblock for years now to watch a favourite soap. This week it seems they have cottoned on to people using an ad blocker and the site is no longer accessible without disabling it. Ok, so I accepted this and disabled my ad blocker, but their use of ads is RIDICULOUS. One 20 minute episode of my programme contained a total of FOUR ADS where the programme was periodically stopped throughout. What's more, they lay on TWO ADS WHICH ARE BOTH IDENTICAL, BACK TO BACK. Even in normal programming, you get one single group of ads halfway through, so the programme is literally just in two halves, but this pathetic, greedy site make the viewer watch ads every 5 minutes. I will no longer be using Dailymotion and I am sure that many other people will also dump this site because of their greed and lack of care for the user.

If you like more commercials than content (I mean about 4 to 1), then this site is for you. I decided to finish watching my movie for the sake of counting the number of full ads, pop-up ads and screen ads ( the ones that were patch-worked all around the video).
Full ads - 64
Popup ads - 97
Screen ads - 46
The movie was only 1:21 and of course they have to make the ads twice to three times as loud as the movie itself. It also stopped twice on me and forced me to start the player over, then find my place; of course, after several more ads. Also, don't bother trying to play anything full screen. They shrink it back down to make room for all of their screen ads. This makes AMC's streaming service look flawless, and they SUCK! I'm gong to left everyone I know to stay way. What a total waste of time. I can't even write to them, but I can write to the advertisers. Anyone who's dumb enough to pay to advertise must suck as well if they're willing to go so low as to advertise with them. I wish there was just one nice thing I could say about them, but anything would be a lie. I used to like Mountain Dew. Now, I won't ever buy it again. The ads made me sick.

I recently discovered that a group called "Film Guerillas" uploaded our feature film to dailymotion without our permission. There is a copyright notice on our film, but dailymotion refuses to notify "Film Guerillas" that they are in violation. We just want the film taken down off of the site, but dailymotion will not cooperate in any fashion.
We are considering a class action lawsuit against dailymotion... is YOUR film on their site without permission? If so, they are knowingly allowing video piracy.

This used to be a great sight for catching up with the soaps, but now, its difficult to navigate, and the response you get to any option you choose is you must sign in, you must sign in, you must sign in... this includes simply choosing the full screen option. It is the most annoying site, the search tool brings up random videos that are not related to anything you are searching for, a pure waste of time. It used to be great but since the "new look" site, its nothing but a nuisance. I won't be bothering with it.