Vimeo
is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004. The nameVimeo was created by co-founder Jake Lodwick and is a play on the word video, inserting the word "me" as a reference to the site's exclusive dedication to user-made video, and is also an anagram of "movie."
Vimeo does not allow commercial videos, gaming videos, pornography, or anything not created by the user to be hosted on the site.
Popularity
As of March 2010, Vimeo has over 3 million members and an average of more than 16,000 new videos uploaded daily. Roughly 10% of uploads are in HD.
Notable Content
Numerous popular musicians use or have used Vimeo to upload various music videos and other content, including M.I.A., Kanye West, Tom Delonge, Nine Inch Nails,Moby, Beck, Placebo, Lykke Li, Röyksopp, Devin the Dude and Britney Spears, who premiered her new music video Radar there. Comedians Kristen Schaal, Reggie Watts, and "Weird Al" Yankovic use Vimeo as well.
The White House posts high-definition versions of its broadcasts to Vimeo.
Vimeo has helped to offload traffic from Improv Everywhere's servers after new pranks are announced, and continues to host most of their videos. Vimeo was also the original location of Noah Kalina's "everyday" video, a popular viral video.
Video Quality
On October 17, 2007, Vimeo announced support for High Definition playback in 1280x720 (720p), becoming the first video sharing site to support consumer HD. Uploaded HD videos are automatically converted into 720/30p VP6 Flash video. Non-HD videos re-encode at a maximum of 30 frame/s and they also have significantly higher bitrates than other competing video sharing sites. Non-Plus users can upload up to 500 MB of videos per week, and up to 1 HD video per week (additional HD videos uploaded within the same week are encoded to SD).
Vimeo Plus
On October 16, 2008, Vimeo unveiled its $60-per-year 'Vimeo Plus' package, which allows users additional weekly uploads (up to 5 GB), unlimited HD videos, unlimited creation of channels, groups and albums, no ads, HD embeds, 2-pass video re-encoding that results in higher quality, priority encoding, and more. The arrival of Vimeo Plus also meant the downgrade of the free version, which up to that point also enjoyed unlimited HD re-encodings per week and unlimited creation of groups/albums/channels.
Since February 2010, PLUS users can choose to re-encode their 1080p upload as either 1080p or 720p. As of July 22nd, 2010, the site offers unlimited HD embeds. As of January 4, 2011, Vimeo Plus users can upload up to five gigabytes of footage, roughly equivalent to 2.5 hours of HD video. This makes it possible for full length, high-definition feature films to be uploaded to Vimeo by Vimeo Plus users.
| Type | Subsidiary, limited liability company |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 2004 |
| Founder | Zach Klein, Jake Lodwick |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York,United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Zach Klein (CEO) Jake Lodwick (CEO) |
| Owner | IAC (2004–present) |
| Website | Vimeo.com |
| Alexa rank | 142 |
| Type of site | Video hosting service |
| Advertising | IAC Advertising |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | English |
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The group's rating for this would give it an average of 3/5. The group believes it does hold quality videos for those interested in those though it's not the sort of web app that is preferable for people who go video browsing without in consideration of quality. It's not really useful not unless you're the type who is into the film.
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