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Overview

DailyMotion has a rating of 1.42 stars from 127 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about DailyMotion most frequently mention many ads, and full screen problems. DailyMotion ranks 177th among Videos sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 14.3%
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Top Positive Review

“A Better Experience than YouTube, but What ads?”

Shawn V.
11/21/23

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.

Top Critical Review

“Fraudulent site”

Nada S.
11/26/23

It claims to show advanced episodes when in fact it would be showing previous ones! It also makes you waste time with the ads (where their money comes from, I assume) and then all the buffering! Not recommended at all!

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Thumbnail of user travish589
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 28th, 2024

Dailymotion forced me to disable my ad blocker to access the site. I did and there were three long, identical ads before the video began. After the video had played for about three minutes, more of the same long, identical ads played.
I get that they need ads to generate revenue but if they overdo it (which is putting it mildly), it completely ruins the experience for the viewers.
I thought TV ads back in the day were annoying but they were never this invasive.

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Thumbnail of user nadasa21
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 26th, 2023

It claims to show advanced episodes when in fact it would be showing previous ones! It also makes you waste time with the ads (where their money comes from, I assume) and then all the buffering!
Not recommended at all!

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Thumbnail of user jslim4626
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 30th, 2023

ITS SO BAD. TOO MANY ADS. 2X15 SECOND ADS WITH N0 SKIP BUTTONS. ME WHO BARELY WATCH 10 SECONDS AND THEN IT POPS UP...AND AT ONE POINT THERE WAS LIKE 6 ADS IN LESS THAN 10 MINS EVEN YOUTUBE HAS BETTER ONE I COULD WATCH A 30+HOUR LONG VID WITH BARELY 2 ADS. AT DAILYMOTION I CANT EVEN WATCH A 20 MIN VID WITHOUT AT LEAST 4 ADS POPPING UP

Thumbnail of user jessc364
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 12th, 2023

I was using this app to watch The Young & the Restless. Most of the videos are horrible quality with some annoying background sound running constantly. The View posted decent quality Y & R episodes without the background noise, but now I can't find ANY episodes….only short clips.? What happened? Some times you have to type the date in a different way, which is bizarre, but I've tried every way possible and nothing.

Thumbnail of user radeonprovega
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 21st, 2023

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.

Tip for consumers:
Please Dailymotion change your User channel layout and entire website design similar to YouTube.

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Thumbnail of user martym268
1 review
21 helpful votes
July 3rd, 2023

Dailymotion website is a absolute mess to use. I mean the layout and UI is terrible. I can't even search for anything, the search function does nothing. The hilarious part is at the bottom of the website that it says designed with in Paris, FR. My $#*! made with love.

Thumbnail of user sunnyn24
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
March 7th, 2023

In order to even register you have to set up your birthday by scrolling backwards, month by month, from the current date. Takes forever. No English subtitles Whoever designed the enrollment process is a moron and had no sense of using the site. Worst I've ever seen. Forget it

Thumbnail of user allisonc330
1 review
6 helpful votes
March 4th, 2022

This website is terrible. One of the worst I've ever seen. The only good thing about it is that it's free and it's so not worth it. I'd rather spend a month's salary than use this. They literally play ads (2 at a time) every 3 minutes, there are constant pop ups on the screen, and it makes your computer freeze. It's not a spam website, but it's pretty damn close. It used to be better, but that's how this $#*! works. People wanna make money so screw if we like it.

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Thumbnail of user franku16
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
March 9th, 2020

This website is great! I can watch so many things i can never watch before! Iam very happy with this site thanks so much for improving!

Thumbnail of user pauln1355
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 14th, 2023

The first time I logged in after setting up an account, I had to watch OVER 20 EFFEN minutes of ads and then to make it worse, once the program started, less than 1 minute of program while over 2 minutes of ads so F ALL OF YOU AND YOUR BS!

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Thumbnail of user danab598
1 review
5 helpful votes
April 22nd, 2022

I loved watching Doc Martin on Daily Motion but the popup ads are so annoying now I can barely make it through 1 episode. Netflix casts seamlessly to my tv but DM is constantly interrupted forcing me to go through the motions of refreshing, pausing, playing all over again to get it to cast. Then I have to find where I left off and immediately there are the ads that happen. Too frustrating to deal with technology that seems like it was written in the mid 90's! Please get your team together... it can't be that difficult.

Thumbnail of user deeptij1
7 reviews
4 helpful votes
March 29th, 2017

I've always use this website for my video sharing. Also I get decent amount of traffic from here. I strongly recommended this superb video sharing sites.

Thumbnail of user cartmanj
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 2nd, 2022

Every 10 seconds Ads keep on appearing and it repeats them twice and it is just so annoying. I would never trust Dailymotion. Overall a Scam

Thumbnail of user kenr414
1 review
5 helpful votes
March 19th, 2022

How in the world can a business survive doing something that nobody wants it to do? My god, the ad volume, the way in which the ads are shown, the repetitiveness of the ads. Wow! I had ads knocking the browser out of full screen mode. Repeatedly. It felt like the ads were an obstacle course trying to prevent me from watching the video I was watching. Actively warring against me. I will do everything in my power to not use dailymotion ever again.

Thumbnail of user cathym849
1 review
8 helpful votes
March 14th, 2021

Just Terrible! I got to watch half my video then it stopped. Did this twice and even downloaded the app but not any better. And during it all many ads so I know where they're getting their revenue. I was never asked to purchase during my horrible experience so I'm not sure what thats about. I wish I had seen rating before I spent so much time for nothing.

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Thumbnail of user davisonhs
8 reviews
18 helpful votes
January 18th, 2013

A very fantastic website for browsing videos..

Thumbnail of user ayeshan13
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
November 29th, 2021

This site is so full of crazy. Navigation is terrible. When you click on a film which is reportedly kids friendly, suddenly mid movie a porn clip takes over. This is nuisance and there's no quality control. Movies are labeled as a mainstream popular movie but it's pornography inside or something else in a different language. How misleading is that!

Tip for consumers:
Never trust dailymotion for quality control. You click on some content to find something else beneath in a strange language

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I clicked on their videos on how to and tutorials as well as popular Hollywood series and movies as well as BBC series

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Thumbnail of user annab666
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 12th, 2020

The sight has many frustrating issues with things such as episodes are not being shown in order according to series, looking for particular episodes by manually entering does not come up and entering the information is no good because words are not able to be spaced. The same ad plays over and over again and will not let you see video, sometimes the sound is too slow for the video, definitely not worth paying for this

Thumbnail of user simonw451
1 review
6 helpful votes
December 15th, 2021

Seriously Daily Motion, you would be the most hated website with Ads. You put my anger level so high with under 5 mins ad after ad which really doesn't give a good impression. Yes you have clients paying for their ads but really I would never promote, rate this website to anyone. The only good thing you got going for it is all the comments of unhappiness.

Thumbnail of user nettiet3
40 reviews
156 helpful votes
June 28th, 2022

I USED to enjoy streaming a few shows I couldn't find anywhere else, like Prisoner Cell Block-H, and the FAME TV series. Until the obnoxious ads began interrupting all play. Right in the middle of a dialogue or a fight scene. Idiot popups ads ruining everything. Then if you attempted to back-track, you got ANOTHER obnoxious popup. It never used to be like this. I could watch a full streaming with 1 15-second ad as a commercial break. It's ridiculous. Then... somehow I got logged out. So I tried logging back in, and suddenly my password is bad, and the reset doesn't work. UGH!

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Thumbnail of user philor
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 5th, 2023

Impossible to use: there are advertisement stopping the videos every few minutes. I remember a time when Dailymotion was useful. This time is over.

Thumbnail of user zumat
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 5th, 2022

Bad app/website YouTube is a lot better why are there so many ads I mean come on world be nice and why cant you skip them like most apps or websites

Thumbnail of user craiga232
1 review
5 helpful votes
May 8th, 2021

With adverts literally every 5 minutes, what makes this dreadful website even worse is the fact that TWO identical adverts play back-to-back each time.

I can't even be bothered to elaborate further and spend any more precious time talking about this dreadful site, but you get the idea.

Watch things on YouTube or Vimeo instead.

Tip for consumers:
Simply don’t use this website, it is a pile of tosh.

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Thumbnail of user pissedo126
1 review
6 helpful votes
May 8th, 2021

The ads volume and repetitivness is like nothing I have ever seen... absurd - feels like more ads than content and I saw 1 ad 5 times in a row... but that is only an issue if the video will actually stream, and I have not managed to get through a single video before in grinds down to snippets of a few seconds at a time. Simply unbareable. I cannot understand why the advertisers would want to be associated with this product.

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Thumbnail of user clarej29
1 review
5 helpful votes
February 24th, 2019

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.

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