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Business Standard are reporting that Hungama Mobile, South Asia’s premier mobile entertainment company has has formed a strategic alliance with Dailymotion, video entertainment website to provide video content catering to the Indian community.

Hungama will be Dailymotion’s anchor partner and business associate for the India operations. Hungama Mobile would also take the Dailymotion community to the mobile consumer where video consumption is already high and will grow rapidly once 3G is introduced later in the year.

Tags: Dailymotion, Hungama Mobile

The Ultimate Warrior makes the biggest return in professional wrestling history while teaming up with the largest independent video site in the world. The “Ultimate Return” will be availableexclusively on UltimateWarriorTV.com through a one-of-a-kind, Internet PPV event.
(via PRWeb) June 10, 2008 — Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video entertainment site, has joined forces with UltimateWarriorTV.com to broadcast the highly-anticipated June 25th comeback match known as “The Return of The Ultimate Warrior.” Dailymotion is a top 50 website worldwide (source: Alexa, June 2008), receiving nearly 37 million unique visitors each month (source: comScore, April 2008). [Read more]

Tags: Dailymotion, Ultimate Warrior

I don’t know about you but with 200 TV channels to go at I can’t find anything to watch most nights. It the usual story - soaps, reality TV (is there such a thing?), quiz shows, depress-u-dramas and third rate made-for-tv movies. So I increasingly turn to the web for my entertainment. As more and more deals are done I find I can watch some pretty interesting stuff, usually music or comedy centric shows or video clips. It is with a warm (well- tepid) heart that I report that MTV Networks has cut several online syndication deals with web sites.

MTV will supply short-form content to Veoh, GoFish, imeem, MeeVee and Dailymotion. These deals augment existing arrangements with AOL, Joost, MSN, Bebo and Comcat’s Fancast.

Tags: AOL, Bebo, Comcast, Dailymotion, Fancast, GoFish, imeem, Joost, MeeVee, MSN, MTV, Veoh

Variety is reporting that France’s largest private TV broadcaster TF1 is set to seek damages totaling e150 million ($217 million) against video file-sharing sites Dailymotion and the localized YouTube for copyright infringement, unfair competition and failing to prevent content piracy.
TF1 is particularly aggrieved to have seen broadcasts of its hit U.S. series “Heroes” and an exclusive performance by popular French comedian Gad Elmaleh so extensively downloaded, according to news magazine Le Point

The network claims that the file-sharers’ actions have cost it up to $97,000 in lost advertising revenues and video-on-demand sales per pirated episode of “Heroes.” One episode had been viewed over 80,000 times.

Dailymotion investors include Atlas Venture LLP, Partech International, AGF Private Equity, Advent Venture Partners.

www.dailymotion.com

Tags: Advent Venture Partners, AGF Private Equity, Atlas Venture LLP, Dailymotion, Partech International, TF1, YouTube