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Dailymotion: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Dailymotion is a video platform where users, creators and publishers upload and share videos, funded by advertising. For business users it offers a Platform API and a Reporting API, SDKs, a customisable video player and enterprise features such as live streaming, hosting and delivery, and analytics. The service is delivered as a hosted service through the website and embeddable players.

For users in the European Economic Area the provider is Dailymotion SA, a French company with its registered office in Issy-les-Moulineaux. According to the company's legal information, data is stored by Dailymotion SA in France and by Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL in Luxembourg. Users outside the EEA contract with Dailymotion Inc., a US company in New York. The platform is not open source. Dailymotion states that it acts as a technical service provider and does not select the videos on the site; the users who upload them are their editors.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Video Streaming
Type	Product
Website	dailymotion.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Dailymotion

The European alternatives to Dailymotion come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Dailymotion

Dailymotion is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Dailymotion scores best on data residency.

Dailymotion is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Dailymotion together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Dailymotion?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Dailymotion include Accedo, ADN and Antena Play. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Dailymotion?

Our list of EU alternatives to Dailymotion is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Dailymotion GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Dailymotion is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Dailymotion an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): dailymotion.com/legal/privacy
Security page / trust center: dailymotion.com/legal/terms
EU hosting documented: dailymotion.com/legal/infos

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Video Streaming

Video Streaming: Video streaming services — movies, series, live TV. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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