Dailymotion the video sharing website has released an iPhone app to compete with rival Youtube. The Paris based video website is very popular throughout Europe and has launched two apps. One is free and ad supported whilst a second costs $5.99 and is ad free. The apps will let iPhone viewers watch videos from Dailymotion’s catalog of around 12 million videos. The app also lets users record and upload videos straight to the site.

Although iPhone users could access the dailymotion vids using the mobile website connection, as YouTube have a default app on the iPhone, they could not really compete.

Whilst the much bigger YouTube application is preinstalled on the iPhone, the Dailymotion app will need downloadingh from the Apple App Store. The player is as functional as YouTube and iPhone users can search for videos on Dailymotion, view featured and the most popular videos of the day, browse channels and access their Dailymotion account. IPhone 3GS owners can also record and upload videos to the site using the newly released application.

Will anyone bother with it though if they can watch Youtube’s collection of videos? Who knows, but its good to have a choice and another app to show off with in font of other mobile phone users.

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