Website monetization

How website monetization works

Once you've enabled monetization, you can use website monetization with your websites to earn revenue in two ways:

1. Embed the Dailymotion widget that automatically displays recommended videos
2. Embed individual Dailymotion videos on your verified sites
• To start embedding individual videos, you'll need to verify your sites. 
  

On Dailymotion, many videos are served with in-stream advertisements—ads that appear before, during, or after videos (learn more about ad formats). Website monetization gives everyone the opportunity to share in the revenue these advertisements generate. Simply embed Dailymotion videos or the Dailymotion Widget on one of your sites, and earn revenue every time someone views an ad served on these videos.

To get paid, make sure to add your banking information. Earned revenue will automatically be transferred to your PayPal account or bank account every month when your balance exceeds $100. Also, you can always track your revenue and view your payments.

Learn more about monetization and its benefits here.

Using the Dailymotion widget

The Dailymotion widget is a powerful tool that allows you to easily earn revenue by embedding recommended video content on your website. The Dailymotion widget is fully responsive, so it will adapt to the screen size of any user. And, every time a user clicks and views a video from your embedded widgets, you'll earn revenue. 

Note: To use the Dailymotion widget, you must have monetization enabled for your account. Learn more here.

Create a Widget

Follow the steps below to create a widget.

1. Go to your Widgets page.
   Note: You can navigate to this page in your Settings by clicking Website Monetization.
2. Click the Create a Widget button in the top right corner.
3. Select a layout from the list. Use the graphics and recommendations to decide which layouts are right for your site.
4. Select the Content section header and specify the types of content you'd like to feature.
5. Select the Styling section header to customize your widget's name and styling. By default, your widget will adapt to your website's styling.
6. Click the Save and generate code button.
7. Copy and paste the Embed Code to your website's HTML.
   Note: This embed code will never change, even if you edit this widget's settings in the future, so you'll never need to re-embed this widget.

Manage and Monitor

You can always manage and monitor your widgets from the Widgets page.

To manage a widget, scroll to the bottom of the Widgets page, and simply click either the Edit, Embed, or Delete button next to the widget you'd like to manage.

To monitor your widgets' performance, use the four analytics tabs located on the Widgets page:

• Daily: Displays views by day.
• Monthly: Displays views by month.
• Device, OS, & Browser: Displays views by device, operating system, and browser.
• Country & Language: Displays views by country and language.

You can export view data by clicking the triple bar button on the right of each graph and selecting the file you'd like to download. Or, you can choose to print the graph.

Widget, embed rules and best practices

These requirements must be followed when using website monetization:

• All views must be organically generated.
• For click-to-play widgets, views are counted after the video starts once a user clicks the play button.
• For scroll-to-play widgets, views are counted after a user has watched three seconds.
• Embed location must not host content that violates our terms of use.
• Players must be larger than 300 x 250 px and be positioned "above the fold".
• If auto-play is enabled, the sound on the video and website must also be enabled.

For best results, embedded videos should be seamlessly integrated into your websites and apps. 

Here are some best practices to follow:

• Use a 600 x 400 px player on your homepage to increase user engagement.
• Use a 400 x 300 px player on other pages to do the same.

Tools for embedding videos

We have several tools that make embedding videos on your site easier.

Publish-It! Extension

The Publish-It! widget is an easy-to-use embed tool. Once installed on your browser, this widget allows you to easily search videos in our entire catalog. Once the video(s) are selected, Publish-it! will provide you with an embed code that you can copy and paste to your website. See how it works.

Publish-it! features:

• Accessible as a browser plugin and under every video on Dailymotion.com.
• Enables you to embed one video or a video feed (multiple videos in a player).
• Enables you to embed a dynamic video feed (atomically updated video feed).
• Choose the video player's and video's parameters.
• You have access to the description, thumbnail and title of each video.
• Log In to automatically pass your syndication ket to the embed code.

 Download for Chrome or Firefox. 

Matchbox:

Use Matchbox to automatically push relevant videos to your website. Generate the embed code once, paste it to your website, and let the tool do the rest. Plus, you can customize the player and video format and parameters.

Get it here.

API (for developers):

Using our API, you can integrate Dailymotion videos and key video features into your own application or website. You can perform searches, upload videos, create playlists, and more. Get started at https://developer.dailymotion.com/

Finding relevant videos

Finding contextually relevant videos to share on your website will not only please your audience, but also increase your revenue.

Here are some ways to help you easier find appropriate videos.

• Browse our most popular videos.
  Tip: Watch videos on Dailymotion to get suggestions based on your viewing habits. 
• Use RSS feeds to follow a list of videos by clicking the RSS icon in your browser's address bar.