Monetization Basics

How to enable monetization

Enabling monetization allows you to start earning revenue from your videos and unlocks advanced features. Learn more about monetization and its benefits here.

To enable monetization, follow the steps below. 

1. Hover over the Dailymotion logo in the top-right of the home page to show your channel menu.
   
2. Click Settings from the channel menu.
   
3. Click the Enable Monetization button. A modal box will appear.
   
4. After reading the Dailymotion Partner Terms & Conditions, you can agree to them by clicking the I Agree button.

After you've enabled monetization, you will immediately be able to earn revenue from your videos and use advanced features. Learn what you can do here.

Ways to monetize

Once you've enabled monetization, you can earn revenue in three ways.

• Video Monetization: Earn revenue from views of ads served on your videos. 
  Learn more about video monetization.
  
• Paid Content: Rent your videos on demand or on a monthly subscription basis to earn revenue. 
  Learn more about paid content.
  
• Website Monetization: Embed Dailymotion videos or the Dailymotion Widget on your websites and earn a share of advertising revenue. 
  Learn more about website monetization.
  
• Copyright Monetization: Use digital fingerprints on Dailymotion to automatically earn revenue when users upload your copyrighted content. 
  Learn more about copyright monetization

Partner features (monetization enabled)

Enabling monetization unlocks advanced features available only to partners. You can learn more about them here.

Copyright monetization

With copyright monetization, you can automatically earn revenue every time other users upload your copyrighted audio or video content.

Note: To take advantage of this feature, you must have a Dailymotion account with monetization enabled. Learn more.

On Dailymotion, we partner with industry-leading content protection systems (Audible Magic and INA) that use digital fingerprinting—snippets of unique code—to track when copyrighted content is uploaded.

Once copyright monetization is enabled on your account, your channel will automatically be mentioned in the description of videos that use your copyrighted content and ad revenue generated by those videos will automatically be routed to your account. This process works very similarly to how video monetization works. 

Follow the steps below to start monetizing your copyrighted content.

Monetize Your Copyrighted Videos

1. To get started, please contact us at partner-support@dailymotion.com. 
2. We will provide you with a Claim Agreement that governs copyright monetization of video content.
3. After you agree to this:
• New uploads to your channel will be automatically digitally fingerprinted and supplied to INA's database.
• Any unauthorized uploads of your copyrighted videos will automatically be detected and earn revenue for you.
• Your channel will automatically be mentioned in the description of any video that uses your copyrighted content. 

Note: You can also choose to automatically block all uploads of your copyrighted video content. Contact us for more information.

Monetize Your Copyrighted Audio

1. To get started, please contact us at partner-support@dailymotion.com. 
2. We will provide you with a Claim Agreement that governs copyright monetization of audio content.
3. After you agree to this, if you are not already doing so, you must provide your audio content to Audible Magic (AM) for digital fingerprinting. Dailymotion can help with this process.
4. Once you've completed the above steps:
• Uploads that use your copyrighted audio content will automatically be detected by Audible Magic and earn revenue for you.
• Your channel will automatically be mentioned in the description of any video that uses your copyrighted content. 

Note: You can also choose to automatically block all uploads of your copyrighted audio content. Contact us for more information.

Monetization changes

In August 2015, we made some major changes to the way monetization works at Dailymotion.

Before, three individual platforms handled everything:

• Dailymotion Official let you earn revenue from ads served on videos
• Dailymotion OpenVOD let you earn revenue from rentals and paid subscriptions
• Dailymotion Publisher let you earn revenue from embedding any Dailymotion video

These three programs have now been merged with Dailymotion settings and renamed as features.

• Dailymotion Official has become Video Monetization
• Dailymotion OpenVOD has become Paid Content
• Dailymotion Publisher has become Website Monetization

All of the revenue is categorized the same except for one item.

• Prior to the update, money earned from embedding your own uploads on your websites was categorized as Publisher (now Website Monetization) revenue.
• After the update, this revenue is now categorized as Video Monetization (formerly Official) revenue.

You can learn more about the new settings and features here.