Zaleski says he's not actively seeking such, but it sounds like a "come and get me" to traditional media players seeking a friendly web distributor (remember CBS' (NYSE: CBS) Joost investment?): "Increasingly, we get people coming to us to discuss deals, because you've got YouTube and that anti-Google lobby that's out there, but we'd have to be careful because we don't want to appear too biased (toward a particular broadcaster). Your computer is running slow either because you unknowingly goofed up some settings or something went wrong automatically. I have used dailymotion and youtube, and youtube is much faster, while dailymotion always has choppy video playback. We would clearly be open if someone came along with smart money and said 'we could bring this or that to you, could we take a small position in you?' If it was something that would augment what we're doing, then you'd say 'why not?'" The problem would be a program running in the background. Is more money needed to challenge the big rival? "Don't need anymore, it's always nice to have more. With big 31.9 million VC funding behind it, Dailymotion has become France's largest media site, but with slow international progress in the face of larger Anglophone rivals.
Ahh Dailymotion - le YouTube Francais, oui? " Non!," says CEO Mark Zaleski, who's heard it all before: "Okay, so we both show videos, but it's like saying BBC's the same as Five." That is, Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) site may have a lot of the same material, but it lacks Dailymotion's MotionMaker programme for pro-am film makers and discoverability can be sucky - a complaint some others, including Chad Hurley, acknowledged in Cannes this week.
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