Dailymotion Reviews

Update: It’s been a while since I wrote this original review, which was the only thing that got the developers’ attention. After finally contacting me back, they assured me they were working on the problem. However, it’s been at least a week more, probably longer, and still the issue persists. I’ve heard nothing from the developer again now, and none of the devices in my house will work with the download feature now. That’s iPad minis and iPad Pro 10.5” all freeze on trying to use the download feature. It’s very frustrating, so I’m dropping another star.

Edited original review: For longer than two weeks, I haven’t been able to use Dailymotion, because if I download something to watch and tap it to play, it just freezes everything and Dailymotion has to be shut down. The date, time, battery, and wifi symbols disappear from the top of the screen, and Dailymotion freezes and you can’t load the video, or click on anything else in Dailymotion . I’ve tried everything. Deleting Dailymotion , turning the iPad off and on again, hard powering off, messing with the settings, deleting all recently updated apps, and even updating my iPad; but nothing works. I contacted Support and never heard back. I’m using an iPad Pro 10.5” with iOS 15.4. Please fix this! I don’t want to not like Dailymotion.

I am enjoying Dailymotion to watch a lot of videos that can’t be seen in YT. Only issue I am coming across is the frequency of ads on some videos. The button to click skip add is very close to the icon to change screen setting that when clicking the skip ad it sometimes revert to the original screen. Also, when skipping ad sometimes, the video will restart from the very beginning. It is a free app that contains videos I won’t find in YT so it’s a minor hassle to even fuzz about. Just making a review for those interested in Dailymotion

….you will LOVE Dailymotion!! And if you like to watch the same ad over and over and over, even better! Also, there’s the added frustration of the periodic appearance of a “Skip Ad” button, but don’t press it!! If you do, the ad will start over and play again. And again. And again. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!! After watching all these ads, and the video that you were watching *finally* comes back, it, too, will start over playing from its beginning. So unless you like to fast forward over and over and over and over to get back to where you were in the video before ads started playing over and over and over, which happens less than five minutes after the video starts playing, you might not like Dailymotion.

Truly, I get that *someone* has to pay the bills. And I don’t generally object to watching ads in order to not pay directly for an online experience. But Dailymotion is unbelievable. Between the endless, repetitive ads, and having to fast forward back to where I was in the video after it restarted every five minutes, it took nearly two hours to watch a 55-minute documentary. Ridiculous. Find somewhere else to watch your videos. This ain’t it.

I pretty much have no problem with the iPhone/iPad versions, but the Apple TV version is quite bad. First, the “For You” section just doesn’t load, stays blank, meaning that I cannot access the accounts I’m following or anything like that. Second, and worst, is that the “Search” section only shows ten results or items. Let me explain: as I said, the “For You” section does not work, so if I want to see a specific playlist I have to “manually” search for it, if I manage to find it, it only SHOWS AND PLAYS the first ten videos in said playlist, so if the playlist has more than ten videos, I can’t see them because they just don’t appear. Even if I go into the user’s profile, again, it only shows ten results in each section. This is really frustrating because I like to see the videos in my TV. Once I thought “since I can see all the videos on the iPad app, maybe I can play the desired video in the iPad and watch it on the TV via AirPlay, but even that doesn’t work properly!! When I try to play a video on my TV using AirPlay, only the audio plays! I like this app and what it has to offer, but the Apple TV function is very frustrating.

It’s really really annoying now. I unfollow channels and then after 2-4 hours, those channels are back in my list of channels i have subscribed to. I have signed out, changed passwords after unfollowing channels but nope! They still keep coming back. Also it says I am following 50 channels but when i look at the list, it’s only 15 channels. It’s just really frustrating. I unfollow channels because sometimes they start airing junk content and I don’t like junk on my feed. I have tried everything i can to see how this will work but so far nothing works!

Left this review up and the developer asked me to email them. I did. Sent them screenshots, details, names of photos and now it’s been more than a month and radio silence from their end. The issue is still there. I keep unfollowing channels and they keep coming back. I have tried deleting Dailymotion , clearing the cache, changing the password everything. Nope. The unfollowed channels are back again within minutes now. I don’t understand why is there not an option to block a channel? What’s the issue?

I really love Dailymotion to watch all my favorite episodes of shows that barely airs anymore but i think Dailymotion needs a few updates, for starters i think if you watch a video and then close Dailymotion the video should be able to save your progress in the video, and maybe make it where are home page shows stuff we will be interested for the people who use Dailymotion to watch cartoons it would really help for that to be a feature, then maybe we will be able to delete a video from are playlist without having to delete the whole playlist and be able to reorganize it if you put something out of order. I hope you think about these features in the future updates

I understand that a company needs to run ads to survive. That makes total sense. And if it was just an ad or two at the beginning or end of a video, maybe in the middle, that would be fine. However, in the last month, I have been getting ads literally every two minutes, and it’s often more than one at a time. In a twenty minute video, that’s 15+ ads, each unskipable, and 30+ seconds long, and it’s often the same ad repeating. Why? That is beyond excessive, and it takes me completely out of my viewing experience! Again, I understand needing ads, but there must be a better way! Under normal circumstances, this app is a fantastic app, but this constant barrage of ads is ridiculous!

Sometimes you want to watch videos but don’t know exactly what you want to watch. this app is great for that. While it used to be known more as a ugc platform, it’s now got videos from a wide variety of well known publishers. My favorites are cbs news, sports illustrated, rolling stone, and cheddar. Within Dailymotion i also follow a bunch of topics that i’m interested in, and i can browse the new videos from my channels & topics whenever i want. If you’re short on data like i am, you can also download videos to watch offline later. Final praise: Dailymotion UI is gorgeous and easy to use, the ads are unobtrusive and usually skippable, and it’s all free.

No auto play….that works. Can’t queue videos. Can’t view a playlist without starting the playlist. Can’t save a video to watch later unless you open the video. I want to cast video to TV and then browse and queue up additional videos, but can’t do that. See the theme here? Just a lot of “can’t do’s” and very few can do’s. Older versions of app were actually better and more user friendly. In last few years this has become my least used app, because updates seem to take away functionality or introduce changes that aren’t needed and actually make app more difficult to use. If you want to watch a “ one off” video that you can’t find anywhere else then it’s fine, but more than that and it’s a frustrating mess of an app.

The Daily Motion application is a fine conduit to many of the type of videos internet users would have a interest in whether it be films, music, viral videos, sports or any other type of entertainment. Navigation around Dailymotion is easy with the categories listen on the h9me page and one is looking for something specific a keyword search is available. One issue for me is that waiting after selecting a video for playback or more information can be a bit long. Daily Motion is still well worth a download as an alternative or even main source to other video applications.

Love Dailymotion! Watching BL’s on here is so fun if you can’t find anywhere else but try supporting the actors with official websites! Anyways whenever I’m watching something a ad usually pops up which I don’t mind it’s just that after the ad the video I’m watching starts all over which I hate! Because when I try to skip it back to where I was it takes for ever to load! I also hate that when I leave Dailymotion that it doesn’t save where I left off on a video! Maybe add a recently watched video list that actually works! Because my doesn’t but besides that love it!

It’s impossible now to watch anything on Dailymotion or their regular site. Every forced ad break boots you over to the next video rather than returning you to the one you were watching. In trying to watch a 20 minute video, you’ll be subjected to an ad every 3 minutes and since you’re not returned to the video, in progress, you then have to quit and restart the video, watch another ad, immediately skip to just after where the last ad break fell, if you can, and watch another 3 minute segment before the entire atrocity repeats. This is terrible design. There’s no way to actually watch content on this site anymore unless all you want to see is the exact same ad, every 3 minutes. Ridiculous.

I love Dailymotion so much, but there is something wrong with it regarding the ads. Every time I watch a show there are ads that play in the middle of what I am watching and when they are done I get back to my show, but it replays from the beginning. It’s so annoying because I have to go back to where I left off and that’s so time-consuming. Please fix that to make it where if there are ads and whenever they are done the show will resume where it left off.

I was going crazy looking for a particular show, couldn’t even find it on Firestick. I finally found some episodes on this app! The only complaint I have is that it will not cast to my TV. Plays on my phone and tablet just fine but no casting. I tried everything with no success. I have internet on my smart tv so I played it by logging into this app website on my TV and that works decent. Hopefully this problem will be fixed at some point. Looks like from the reviews this has been an issue for a LONG time. I’m just happy I am able to watch this show at all. Thanks this app!!!

This is the best app ever! I always watch Beetlejuice episodes on it but there are some things that I think you should fix. When I try to skip ten seconds in the video it takes me forever to find where the skip button is, and when I find it I skip like 40 seconds back. Also can you please let my video keep its progress. In other words when I exit Dailymotion can you please let everything save. AND I DON’T CARE ABOUT FACEBOOK WATCH!!!! I always get that stupid ad every five seconds!!! That is pretty much it from me. . You are the best!!!!

I think I liked the previous version better. This version won’t let me watch in a window while I do other things. That feature wasn’t perfect in the previous version, if you tried to go back to full screen, the video would disappear and you’d have to close and restart Dailymotion , but at least it was there, And since I rarely watch stuff without also doing other things in my tablet, not having that feature makes your app much less useful. I realize I should not complain because it’s free, but please add it back, even in the faulty version if you have to.

With Dailymotion I have so many shows right at my fingertips. QI alone keeps me laughing like a lunatic. When things get stressful or I just need a break from life in general, bills, the coronavirus and on and on and on, daily motion is there. It doesn’t freeze or have a hard time with the quality - it just works. Some of our cable networks need to ask daily motion how to make an app that people will love (cough, clear my throat - direct tv). Don’t change anything Daily Motion!

I love how I can watch Pokémon on here! Sometimes I won’t have any ads, and other times I’ll have ads every 5 minutes. The time bar is very touchy and if I miss the full screen button it will take me to the end of the video. Then it’ll take me back and forth for a couple minutes before I can resume playing where I was. Recently I’ve been having the videos stopping and the pause button just blinking. Resulting in me having to close out Dailymotion and play the video again followed by another ad. Dailymotion is just getting too frustrating to use.

Hope you wanted to watch that video from start to finish only. Don’t pause it, because it’ll restart the video. Don’t try to skip to the part you left off at, it’ll restart the video. Pray an ad doesn’t play.... and restart the video. I wouldn't say it’s the worse than the website. Which is bad. But it’s definitely not good. I do appreciate the fact that I can watch all the episodes of QI. Great place to see all the stuff you can’t watch anywhere else. But that doesn’t matter if I can’t, you know. WATCH IT, all the way through. But hey (insert Kermit the frog drinking tea) that’s none of my business.

I enjoy watching content on this app app. However there are issues ive been having both on ios and ipad os. While my video gets interrupted by ads, it then decides to start the video allll over again! It's very frustrating to have to keep going back to where you left off over and over again.

It would be nice to have the "skip ad" button a bit higher on ios mobile bc its directly behind the mute and zoom screen feature.

Other than these few issues, this app has been amazing!

Pretty solid app but can we get the option to edit/reorder our watch later playlist? The order in which we watch things are backwards and it’s quite annoying having to manually scroll through the playlist to watch videos since they don’t play in the order in which we assigned it.

I love this app, but I have noticed unlike the iOS app that appears to have no issues, when I pull Dailymotion up on my Apple TV 4K, all that appears is a blank white screen. After several uninstall/reinstall cycles and reboots of the device, it still does not go beyond the white screen. Please fix this issue on an otherwise solid app/service. Thanks for your time.

It’s a pretty solid little app that just does what it’s suppose to. No frills or anything. Does have a few bugs every now and again like not being able to delete old playlists after you’ve watched them. All and all a nice little app for those shows you just can’t find anywhere else.

I like how the sensitivity on rewinding and forwarding offline videos has been fixed. The only glitch that could be fixed is that everytime I enter fullscreen on all videos, the status bar at the top of the screen doesn’t disappear so there is a status bar in the way at the top of the screen.

The last version moved flawlessly. I hit full screen and if I turned my tablet it moved with it. Now if I don't hit full screen while in portrait mode first it shuts Dailymotion down and I have to start over. Please fix. Will give 5 stars if that gets fixed. I love Dailymotion and the shows. Just a pain to be kicked out every time my tablet moves.

ok first of all i love Dailymotion and what it offers to watch, but whenever i try to watch a video without my headphones all i hear is straight static. it’s like that for all videos not just one, and i would really appreciate it if you could fix this bug because it’s gets a bit annoying if you want to plug it in to charge but then still can’t watch it, or if you simply just don’t have headphones it creates a bit of a problem, overall it’s great just this sound thing has been bothering me for awhile. ☺️

I used to use daily motion a lot but whenever I went to watch something online the captions would not pop up so I downloaded Dailymotion instead. I cant even click on the button where the captions, video resolution, etc are at. The button appears but every time i press on it, it does absolutely nothing. Please fix this bug

Usually I would wait until Dailymotion would ask me how my experience is when using Dailymotion and that’d usually be a couple weeks into using Dailymotion and would give my opinion on it then. But the fact that Dailymotion crashes EVERY SINGLE time I switch to another app makes this practically unusable. Would never recommend Dailymotion to anyone I know or even to the people I hate, it’s just that terrible.

So, Dailymotion is pretty great but I’m having issues with sound. Every time the video plays it make this buzzing sound. I’ve tried making sure my ringer was on and my sound was up but it makes the same sound every time. I hope you can fix this, but other than that the videos play perfectly 😁.

My recently watched tab is saying I haven’t viewed anything recently which makes it to where I have to search the video and find it again and then scrub until I get to the spot I was before, would really like to know why it’s doing this and if it’s just me it’s happening to.

Daily Motion is very good to use when I wanna watch My Yaoi dramas. It’s good because it supplies the captions and the quality is good. And they have all of the seasons two. Its great to use if your a Fujoshi. ( Fujoshi is a reclaimed Japanese term for female fans of manga, anime and novels that feature romantic relationships between men)