Protege and Dailymotion Announce Partnership to Bring Licensed Global Video Data to the AI Market

Partnership makes a large multilingual video dataset available through Protege for AI training and evaluation, reflecting growing demand for licensed and transparent data sources.

JULY 16, 2026 — Dailymotion and Protege today announced a partnership to make Dailymotion’s video catalog available for AI training and evaluation use through the Protege platform.

Through the partnership, AI model builders and application developers will be able to access Dailymotion’s extensive catalog of roughly 40 million videos. The scale, diversity and breadth of the catalog are uniquely valuable at a time when rights-protected and high-quality global video data remains difficult to obtain at meaningful scale.  Alongside data from hundreds of other global media partners, Protege’s catalog and dataset optimization capability, provides unmatched training data for AI labs seeking to build generative video, spatial and physical models.

“The Dailymotion team has been impressed with Protege’s sophistication about content licensing coupled with their deep knowledge of AI training,” said Cyrille Brun, Chief Data & AI Officer at Dailymotion. “Dailymotion is committed to taking a responsible approach to AI licensing, which made Protege the obvious choice.” 

Protege works with AI companies and data owners across categories including  video, audio, spatial & physical, healthcare, and other domains. The company’s role extends beyond access alone to include dataset curation, preparation, and research support designed to help AI teams identify and use fit-for-purpose data for training and evaluation. 

For Dailymotion, the partnership creates a broader path to market for a major video asset through a licensed, transparent framework. For AI developers, it adds a new source of global video data through a partner focused on rights-cleared access and data readiness; furthermore, it provides them direct access to previously unavailable content libraries that can be combined with those provided by other Protege content partners within their network.

“The Dailymotion team is sophisticated and thoughtful about how to address the emerging data licensing market, and we are grateful for the opportunity to work together,” said Dave Davis, Chief Content Officer at Protege. “Protege’s catalog represents one of the largest, highest quality and most diverse rights-cleared datasets ever assembled for AI training.”

As model developers look for higher-quality data with clearer provenance, and as content owners seek trusted ways to participate in AI, licensed data relationships are becoming a more important part of the AI data supply chain.

This partnership reflects this growing reality and the opportunity in the rapidly scaling market: model builders looking for licensed video data with international breadth, and content owners looking for a credible monetization path that preserves trust, control, and transparency.

About Protege

Protege is an AI data platform designed to unlock real-world data at scale. The company helps data and content rights holders turn high-quality, underused data into a new AI revenue stream without giving up control. 

Protege’s transparent, rights-cleared approach bridges the gap between proprietary data owners and leading AI builders, giving AI model developers access to rich real-world data and drastically shortening the time from raw data to purpose-built datasets for AI training and evaluation.

About Dailymotion Advertising

Dailymotion Advertising is Dailymotion’s global advertising, monetization, and data business. It connects advertisers, agencies, media owners, technology companies, and data partners through premium advertising solutions, Dailymotion Exchange, video monetization technology, audience intelligence, and AI and data partnerships.

Powered by more than five billion video streams each month, its ecosystem brings together Dailymotion.com and more than 10,000 media owners and content partners. At the center of this ecosystem is RAY, Dailymotion’s proprietary AI and data intelligence platform, which transforms first-party video signals into actionable audience, content, and performance intelligence.

Combined with Dailymotion’s full-stack video technology, RAY helps partners better understand audiences, improve advertising performance, monetize content, and develop new applications of video data.

Part of CANAL+, Dailymotion Advertising operates across a global video ecosystem built around brand safety, responsible data use, transparency, and measurable business outcomes.