DailyMotion et YouTube ont ‘le drame’

A team from Dailymotion showed up to the Google press event yesterday (machine translation) where the new French version of YouTube was being announced. The video below, “Hello YouTube,” is conveniently subtitled in English, but long story short, Google’s representatives say there’s just no room for a few people from Dailymotion amongst the crowd of journalists.

Google tried to pull a similar stunt to protest eBay’s exclusion of its Checkout payment processing system just last week, and eBay responded by pulling its AdSense account. And ‘le drame’ doesn’t end there, according to tipster Pierre Foucart.

French viral video star Kamini (we’re big fans) put together a piece to promote the new french YouTube. Says Foucart:

YouTube hired Kamini, the most known french Internet Star (discovered on Dailymotion by the way), to do a welcome video on the home page. The funny thing is that comments have been blocked only 10 hours after the publishing of the video.

Comment dites-vous ‘haters,’ ‘flamers’ et ‘trolls’ en français? While this rude reception in France won’t help disabuse Yanks of their stereotypes, all’s fair in love and online video turf wars, apparently.