Now, I should say at the start that I didn't go into this Dailymotion thing to get views, I did it to get away from Youtube.
However, having said that, the last five videos that I uploaded to Youtube barely scraped past 50 views (all of which I was thankful for, obviously) but in the last four days, two videos. The first has over 100 and the second has over 200. Which, isn't record breaking numbers, but still. It's far more people than were watching my videos on Youtube -- It's even better with the knowledge that I don't have any subscribers on Dailymotion. It's all people finding the videos in other ways. On Youtube, I had just over 100 subscribers, yet only 50 views?
Despite the fact that I haven't really taken time to explore Dailymotion yet, I find myself really enjoying it.
Dailymotion seem to have a knack of making their users feel special. Upload original content (videos without copyrighted materials) and you can become a motionmaker and with that motionmaker status comes promotion from Dailymotion. The video I uploaded to gain motionmaker status, the Loch Ness video, was in a "Staff Picks" section and on the home page of Dailymotion yesterday in the Travel section, as well as the featured video on the "Travel Channel" (as you can see in the picture). That's something that just doesn't happen on Youtube. Yes, they have/had the featured video section, but that was just luck if you got in there and yes, if you did happen to get your video featured, it had the ability to propel you to the heights of 'internet fame', which isn't likely to happen any time soon on Dailymotion, but as I said before, that's not what I want. I just want to be able to share the videos I want to share without being told that it's been blocked worldwide.
I find myself wanting to create good videos, high quality videos. So, if they're promoted in the same way as the Loch Ness video, it's worth people clicking on them, which it really isn't for the Loch Ness video, something I feel slightly guilty about.
The next video I have planned is an epic rap battle. It's going to take a while though and hopefully, it'll be amazing.
So yeah, thank you Dailymotion, for making me feel like you care.
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