Release Note Q3 2023

We are introducing an App-Ads.txt crawler to your Dailymotion Studio to help you optimize and secure monetization on Dailymotion Players running within your application environment.

With this new feature, you will be able to:

• Easily control who is allowed to sell ads on your in-app Players
• Ensure your App-Ads.txt file is available and up to date at all time

Learn more on how to use App-Ads.txt on your Dailymotion Studio

Your Dailymotion Studio interface has been improved so you can easily retrieve fully customized embed codes.

You can now select your preferred Player configuration from a dropdown menu, and watch as the embed code is automatically populated with the corresponding Player ID. In just a few clicks, your embed code is ready to use.

Having the Player ID in the embed code ensures:

• Accurate performance tracking and monetization
• Centralized and easy Player management

Learn more about how to embed content from the Dailymotion Studio

Your Dailymotion Studio gives you the option to grant or deny permission for specific domains and applications to use your content. You can specify whether these restrictions apply to individual videos or universally across your entire channel.

With this feature, your content is protected and used in a way that aligns with your guidelines.

Learn more about Domain and App restrictions

Our Player UI allows you to embed playlists with automatic recommendations, enabling you to display additional related content to your audience and keep them engage for more than one video.

Combining playlists with automatic recommendations brings your earnings opportunities to a new level:

• Engaged users with longer viewing sessions
• More opportunities for ad impressions
• Increased monetization

All you have to do is activating a Player setting: check how to combine playlist embeds with automatic recommendations

Dailymotion is committed to digital accessibility, making sure that our platform and services are inclusive and user-friendly for everyone, including people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we have achieved partial compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA.

We have recently been working on making sure that our Player and dailymotion.com website are compatible with assistive technologies such as screen readers and keyboard shortcuts.

Learn more about accessibility on Dailymotion.

As part of our commitment to improve our products' accessibility, subtitles are now automatically generated in French and English (depending on the channel language) on dailymotion.com, on our mobile applications as well as on embedded Players.

Autogenerated subtitles are automatically added during the upload process without further action on your side.

Learn more about autogenerated subtitles and the channels eligible

We have reintroduce the "Back to live" button on the Player for live streams (with DVR enabled).

With this button, viewers have the freedom to navigate within different moments of your live stream using the seek bar. No matter where they are on the seek bar, clicking on the "Live" button at the bottom left will bring them back to live.

Learn more about the DVR option on live streams

Our Player has been optimized to work more efficiently with header bidding solutions and manage ad requests for all ad slots.

Partners using header bidding solutions can now upgrade their Player embeds with this improvement by using the followings new elements:

• Add new Player parameter enable_wait_for_custom_config in Player configuration
• Listen to new dedicated Player event AD_READYTOFETCH

Check the dedicated implementation guide for more details

You can now pass a Player ID in the embed_url and embed_html API fields by adding the following parameter: context=player%3D{PlayerID}

Example: https://api.dailymotion.com/video/x8mubmn?fields=embed_html,embed_url&context=player%3Dxc394

This way, your Player ID will be included in the embed url or html code received, ensuring:

• accurate performance tracking
• easy and centralized Player management directly from your Dailymotion Studio

Note: this change will also impact the url tag in the MRSS feed generated for playlists in your Dailymotion Studio (Media > Playlist > Playlist details > MRSS)

Learn more in the Platform API Changelog

Our iOS SDK now comes with a brand new sample application that provides an overview of what our SDK can do.

It comes with 2 key components:

• iOS sample app: download the sample app on your mobile device and explore the functionalities of our SDK in a user-friendly UI with video demos
  
  
• Source code: for deeper insights, the source code of the sample app is available on GitHub so you can customize as you wish and easily integrate the SDK into your projects.

If you haven't checked it yet, consult the full iOS SDK documentation.

With our new brand positioning, we are dedicated to continue improving your browsing experience on mobile and add new features so users can share opinions and engage with creators' content.

Among our latest features, discover the rating slider and polls that we introduce in the following sections.

Enjoy the best of Dailymotion on your phone by downloading our app on Android and iOS!

As a social platform fostering constructive discussions and authentic interactions, we are enabling users to express themselves fully with more than a simple like or dislike.

Users can choose from 5 nuanced ratings to share feedback with content creators and express how they feel about a video:
Amazing, Cool, Interesting, Boring, Clickbait

See how to rate a video with more than a like

Whether you have strong opinions or you're just curious about what other might think, polls invite you to vote and see what are other users' perspective about a topic.

Based on that, start the conversation in the comments or share your thoughts with a React. Polls are here to bring insights from diverse perspectives and let you refine your own view on hot topics.

Learn more about polls

We are happy to announce that all users have now access to the Dailymotion Studio! As a user, you will now benefit from the same interface than Partners (minus some features) to publish and manage your content.

To access your Dailymotion Studio:

1. Log in on dailymotion.com
2. Hover over your avatar in the top right corner
3. Select Studio

Or go directly to this link.
If you need some help getting familiar with your new space, our Help Center is here to guide you.

Enjoy your new Dailymotion interface!