French video site Dailymotion has now confirmed our report from Monday - that CEO Mark Zaleski (pictured) is being replaced by former BT (NYSE: BT) and Red Bee commercial director Ian Brotherston.

A statement from the board says Zaleski “has resigned from his position with the company as CEO to pursue other opportunities and spend more time on his other investments”. Brotherston will be based in Dailymotion’s Paris office has already updated his LinkedIn profile, which shows he also has had director roles at easyJet and Severn Trent. The statement did not say Zaleski would stay on as non-executive chairman, as first reported, nor that it was looking to raise more money.

Three of Dailymotion’s VC backers use the statement to laud Zaleski. Lead investor Partech’s Philippe Collombe: “Mark has driven the many phases of our development, including taking the lead in the industry in anti-piracy protection by being the only video-sharing site to use two different content filters.” Advent’s Peter Baines says user numbers have grown 50 percent in the last five months. AGF’s Benoist Grossmann, somewhat generally, says Brotherston’s role “will be to lead Dailymotion in its next phase of development” - but there’s no detail on what that next phase will be.

Dailymotion rejects the “French YouTube” tag; it has rolled out in non-French territories, points to its editorialised channel sections as a differentiator from skateboarding-dog UGC sites and has tried to cosy to independent film and documentary makers - but so have other platforms like Babelgum. Dailymotion previously raised a €7 million first round from Atlas and Partech, then another €25 from those plus Advent and AGF