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1. Attempt to login with your username and password
2. You will be asked if you want to resend the confirmation email

If you didn't receive a confirmation email this time, please contact our support team and be sure to include the name of your email provider.

Accounts that haven't been activated will automatically be deleted after 2 weeks.

For security reasons, you cannot retrieve a forgotten password. You can, however, create a new one.

To reset your password:

1. Click "Login" in the header
2. Below the login fields, click "Forgot your login info?"
3. Enter the email address associated with your Dailymotion account
4. Validate the form
5. An email with a link to reset your password will be sent to you

For technical reasons, you cannot change your login.

When you create an account on Dailymotion, your username is permanently associated with your account and URL. It is therefore impossible to change it without completely deleting your profile.

1. Log in to the website
2. Go to your profile page, select "my account" and then "Personal info" in the left sidebar
3. Click on the delete-account link at the bottom of the page
4. Confirm you password and validate your request

Warning: Deleting your account will delete all of your videos and contacts.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to your profile page, select "my account" and then "Personal info" in the left sidebar
2. Click "Change email"
3. Enter:
   1. a new address
   2. confirm that address,
   3. your Dailymotion password
4. Click "Save"

You will receive one email at your former address and another confirmation email at your new address - you have 7 days to confirm your new email address.

First, let's review what Copyright is. Any creation, be it an article, a book, a song, a film or...a video, can be only be used, reproduced or distributed if the author/creator gives permission to do so: that is what we call a copyright. The creation belongs to its creator and only he or she can give you the right to use it.

You may have heard the expression "intellectual property". It brings together brand rights, patent rights and copyrights.

When you want to upload a video to Dailymotion, you must first be sure that you have the right of the authors (director, screenwriter, soundtrack composer, etc.) in accordance with the Terms of Use.

Of course, if you are the creator of all the components of the video that you want to upload, there is no problem, so no worries! However if that isn't the case, you must ask for the consent of the creators or the rights-holders (these are the legal beneficiaries: TV or film producers, record labels, TV channels, etc.). Keep in mind that Dailymotion doesn't know who the legal beneficiary of every individual video is.

There is one thing to keep in mind: Dailymotion doesn't review the thousands of videos put online everyday! We are an internet host: we stock videos that internet users want to share on our machines. However, in accordance with the law, we remove videos that are reported to us, especially when it comes to copyright or privacy issues (you are not allowed to film your neighbors and upload the video without their agreement!).

Go to our page to report potentially infringing content.

Use the feature "this video may offend" under a video and complete the necessary fields.

Once you are logged in:

1. Click "Upload Videos" in the header
2. Click "+ Upload video" to select the video file you want to upload
3. Click "Send"
4. Complete the required fields:
   1. Title
   2. Channel
5. Click "Save"

The required time to upload a video depends upon your connection speed and the size of the video. Once the video has been uploaded, you must wait until the video has been encoded before you can watch it on the site.

It is also possible to upload a video directly from your webcam. There is no limit to the number of videos you can upload. You can upload 5 files at the same time.

If you want your video to be seen by others, it's important to provide plenty of textual information when you upload. Quality descriptive text makes videos easier to find inside of Dailymotion, and from external search engine. If you take the time to shoot and upload, you should take the time describe your work!

The title is the shortest description of your video but it's the first thing users will see. Your title should be clear, direct and accurate - don't be misleading.

What are Strongtags?

What we call Strongtags are rich semantic entities that can be used as substitutes for classic tags, the latter being raw text while Strongtags contains secondary data and links to other entities or topics.

A typical example to grasp the concept is the word “apple”: If used as a classic, raw text tag, there is no way to figure if the video is about apples, the fruit, or Apple inc., the company. However, Strongtags allows you to make the distinction between the two thanks to the data associated to them. The linked data is the following:

Why should I add Strongtags to my videos?

Users browsing your video page will only see Strongtags, raw text tags will be seen by the video owner only.

Strongtags are given more weight in our search engine algorithm, videos with Strongtags will have their visibility improved not only on the platform but also on external search engines as they are \"crawlable\", meaning that they can be indexed in search engines such as Google.

Moreover, the ability to store language data for these entities allows us to display the tag in the visitor native language. Therefore, a visitor from Spain will see the tag in Spanish, if available. For instance, \"European Union\" will be seen as \"Unión Europea\". This way, you will draw more traffic to your content as everybody knows what your videos are about.

Are classic tags still useful?

Yes, Strongtags are complementary to classic tags. Use them to describe the main topic of your videos.

Auto-suggest, how does it work?

The auto-suggest module is requesting live data from a distant database based on what you have typed in the text input. It provides suggestions which you can pick if they are accurate, or ignore by pressing \"enter\" or typing a coma. If an entity from the suggestions is selected, your tag will be stored as a Strongtag, otherwise it will be saved as a classic tag.

Where does the data come from?

All this process is made available thanks to Freebase, an open collaborative database containing more than 20 millions entities brought together by the community.

Tags are simple keywords or other descriptive terms associated with a video. A few pointers on tagging:

• Separate tags with spaces, for example : paris vacation restaurant
• Put tags with more than one word between quotes, for example : "Michael Jackson" together instead of Michael Jackson with just a space between them, or "New York City" instead of New York City
• Five precise tags are much better than two general tags. For example, a video about a trip in Morocco, tags such as morocco agadir cashbah medina oufella are better than: morocco vacations trips

There's no point in cramming a bunch of info into a video title - that's what the description is for! Descriptions can give background, explanation, or other context to a video, and make them easier to find as well. Some bits of info to include in your description:

• What or who is the video about?
• Who is in the video?
• Where does the video take place (date, place, event)?
• Is there a story behind the video?
• Who is the video made for or dedicated to?

On Dailymotion, as in life, it's better to spell words correctly. Too many typos will make your video harder to find, and if the description is hard to read other users may just skip your video for something else. And, like everywhere else on the web, ALL CAPS is considered YELLING, and is impolite.

The Dailymotion Mass Uploader is a program that allows you to upload your videos to Dailymotion without even visiting the Dailymotion website. The Mass Uploader allows you to upload multiple videos at a time, as well as pause and resume uploads. You can also add titles, tags, and descriptions right within the Mass Uploader. If you have had troubles with uploading in different Internet browsers before, or have many videos to upload, the Mass Uploader is the way to win.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to the video page
2. Click the "Admin" tab located below the video description
3. Click the "Delete" link
4. Click the "Delete" button that appears on pop-up to confirm

For legal reasons, you cannot download videos from Dailymotion. However, you can collect videos you like by saving them to your favorites or adding them to playlists.

• A pay video is signaled with a little key in the thumbnail.
• Play the video. The beginning of each pay video is offered for free.
• After a certain time, a pay wall will appear. Wait for the pay wall and then click “Watch now”
• Select the payment method you want to use, then click “finish your purchase” to complete the transaction.
• Once your transaction is finished, your program will resume.
• Have a good show!

• Once you bought a video, it is immediately accessible.
• You don’t need to download the video file, the video is accessible through the Dailymotion Player only.
• The viewing time is indicated in the sticker next to the video title, and in the paywall. You generally have 48 hours to watch the video, but it depends on the videos.
• After buying a video, you receive an email to confirm your purchase. This email contains the link to the video.

• Play the video. The beginning of each pay video is offered for free.
• After a certain time, a pay wall will appear. Wait for the pay wall and then click “Subscribe”
• Select the payment method you want to use, then click “finish your purchase” to complete the transaction.
• Once your transaction is finished, your program will resume and you will have access to all the pay videos of the account for 1 month.
• The payment is automatically renewing every month.
• Have a good show!

Your connection might not be fast enough to watch streaming videos, or your computer's processor may be too slow - both may lead to lag.

If you pause the video and wait for it to download completely (watch the grey progress bar within the seek bar) it should play without a problem.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to a video page
2. Click "Add to" button located below the video
3. Click the "Contest" link
4. Click "create a contest"
5. Enter the name of your new contest
6. Enter an URL name for your contest
7. Enter a description of your contest
8. Select submissions and votes period
9. Click "create"
10. Click "Save"

A new playlist containing this video will be created.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to a video page
2. Click "Add to" button located below the video
3. Click the "Group" link
4. Click "create a group"
5. Enter the name of your new group
6. Enter an URL name for your group
7. Click "Save"

Your group will be created - you can then add videos to it.
New groups will be automatically deleted if no videos have been added after one month.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to the video page
2. Click "Add to" button located below the video
3. Click the "Group" link
4. Select the group you want to add the video to

If you're the administrator of the group, the video will automatically be added. If another user is the administrator of the group, the video will be added only when they approve the video.

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to your profile and click "comments"
2. Click the cross to the right of each comment you want to delete:
   

You can delete comments left on your videos by clicking the link "left on my videos", and comments posted on your profile page by clicking on the link "left on my profile".

Once you are logged in:

1. Go to the video page
2. Click "Add to" button located below the video
3. Click the "Playlist" link
4. Click on the playlist you want to add the video to

The video will be added to the selected playlist.

1. Open a video
2. Click "Embed" button located below the video
   1. Select the player size
   2. Select the play mode
   3. Select the subtitles you wish to display (optional)
   4. Change the colors of the player by clicking on the different boxes:
      
3. The code is automatically updated as you change the information

Copy/paste the updated code you wish to publish on your website. To reset the default colors, click "reset default colors".

Certain content is not suitable for all audiences. The Age Gate enables users to control the content that is displayed. Activating the Age Gate helps prevent younger users from accessing explicit content.

1. Click "Age Gate ON" in the footer
2. Click "I am over 18 - set Age Gate OFF"

That's it, your Age Gate is deactivated. Please verify that your browser accepts cookies, so that your Age Gate credentials will be saved for next time.

You will find all the information you need to know about the Videowall on the webpage dedicated to it.

Dailymotion is under continuous development. Things are being changed, fixed and added regularly. Though some of these changes may be invisible to the user, trust us, they are happening.
Please don't hesitate to "contact us" to report any bugs.

To join the program, click on "Become a motionmaker", fill out the form and accept the Terms of Use and special conditions. Once you have joined the program, the motionmaker option will appear on the edit pages of your videos. Any videos you mark as motionmaker will be transferred to the Dailymotion team for review.

Participation in the Official Content program is free. To apply to the program, please fill out this form.

HD stands for "High Definition". This means that the video definition is 1280 pixels wide and 720 pixels high or 1920 pixels high and 1080 pixels wide. This resolution is superior to DVD image quality. Because of its higher quality, HD video looks great in fullscreen.