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Vimeo is a video experience platform. They enable anyone to create high-quality video experiences to connect and bring ideas to life. They proudly serve their growing community of nearly 300 million users — from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams…
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- Embedded videos (37)7.979%
- Video quality / Bandwidth controls (36)7.878%
- Video access controls (37)7.575%
- Mobile compatibility (37)5.151%
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What is Vimeo?
Vimeo makes creating video attainable regardless of budget, time or expertise. Vimeo enables users to customize and control how content is shared, viewed and managed to maximize the impact of every video.
For marketers, Vimeo supports a marketing strategy with branded content.
For event professionals, Vimeo’s event solution is used to produce, promote, and repurpose virtual events and webinars to get the most out of them.
For internal communications, training, and sales enablement teams, Vimeo can be used create immersive video experiences that leave a lasting impression and connect employees.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Vimeo is a video experience platform. They enable anyone to create high-quality video experiences to connect and bring ideas to life. They proudly serve their growing community of nearly 300 million users — from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams at the world's largest companies.
Vimeo starts at $9.
Reviewers rate Video link sharing and Embedded videos and Video library / File management highest, with a score of 7.9.
The most common users of Vimeo are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Vimeo has become a go-to platform for users looking to share and embed videos with their audience. Users appreciate the convenience of Vimeo, allowing them to create separate albums for each client and easily privatize videos as needed. The platform excels in delivering high-quality videos, even large files, efficiently. Users value the detailed statistics provided by Vimeo, which include views, impressions, and the source of each video's viewership. The platform's customer support has also received praise for its responsiveness and effective problem-solving capabilities. While some users have encountered issues with older video stats, reaching out to support has successfully resolved these problems. Occasionally, users have experienced streaming issues but have found that switching to a different browser can usually resolve the problem. Overall, Vimeo has been utilized for various purposes such as producing training materials, hosting webinars and replays, and creating ad-free courses. It has been preferred over YouTube for its clean and easy-to-embed interface, especially for paid courses and memberships. In the current remote working environment, Vimeo has played a key role in educating and engaging members worldwide. With its sophisticated appearance and customizable features, Vimeo stands out among its competitors. Whether it's hosting instructional videos, product demos, or screencasts, users have been relying on Vimeo for many years personally and professionally. Its affordability and compatibility with training videos make Vimeo Pro an ideal choice for organizations that value privacy features while sharing high-quality videos across multiple departments. Additionally, Vimeo Pro's password protection feature makes it a simple and secure method for sharing work with clients while providing controlled access to videos
Time-saving feature: Uploading files directly from Final Cut Pro. Many users have found the ability to upload files directly from Final Cut Pro to be a time-saving feature. This eliminates the need to export and upload separately, streamlining their workflow and saving valuable time. Helpful Portfolios feature for organizing videos. The Portfolios feature on Vimeo has been appreciated by many users for its helpfulness in organizing videos. It allows them to easily categorize and showcase their work, making it convenient for clients or viewers to navigate through their portfolio. Easy and quick uploading, tagging, and preference setting. Several reviewers have mentioned that uploading, tagging, and setting preferences on Vimeo is easy and quick. This user-friendly process simplifies the management of videos, allowing users to focus more on content creation rather than technicalities.
Difficult to use interface: Many users have found the web app interface of Vimeo difficult to use, with several reviewers describing it as clunky and not as user-friendly as other platforms like YouTube. They struggle with navigating through the various features and find it challenging to perform simple tasks such as uploading videos or customizing settings. These usability issues have been mentioned by a significant number of users in their reviews.
Frequent changes to interface: Some users express dissatisfaction with the frequent changes made to the interface over the years, finding it confusing and difficult to adapt to. They mention that these constant updates disrupt their familiarity with the platform and require them to relearn how certain functions work. This lack of consistency in the interface has been a common complaint among reviewers.
Issues with livestreaming and video performance: Users frequently experience issues with livestreaming on Vimeo, including frequent outages, slow loading and playing of videos, occasional lag, and glitches. These technical problems hinder their ability to effectively stream live events or share high-quality videos. Several users have expressed frustration at encountering these performance issues repeatedly while using Vimeo for their multimedia needs.
Users recommend Vimeo for its high picture quality and lack of ads, making it a suitable platform for general video uploads. They also suggest using Vimeo for professional videos and for centralizing video uploads, making it a good option for companies with a budget. Users recommend Vimeo for hosting customer-facing and internal training videos, as it offers good features and is easy to use. Additionally, Vimeo Pro is considered a reasonable option with a user-friendly platform and faster video loading compared to YouTube. Users believe that Vimeo is the best video hosting platform available and suggest considering it for its simplicity. They also note that having at least 1TB of free space is recommended for extensive use. Users appreciate that Vimeo helps keep users focused and find it suitable for big projects. Furthermore, users recommend Vimeo Pro for businesses due to its password-protected videos, downloadability, and high-quality private links. They note that Vimeo Pro is worth the cost, especially compared to YouTube. Overall, users commonly use Vimeo to embed videos and appreciate its high profile in the industry.
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- WeTransfer and Wistia
Vimeo is more reasonably priced and a little more user-friendly. Plus, I like the look of it and that I can use it at a price that doesn't break the bank for a small business like mine. It seems to have more features than these other platforms, so you don't have to have so many different platforms just for your video needs.
April 04, 2023
Vimeo is worth it.
We have used You Tube, but do not like that an add for ANYTHING may pop up before your video plays. In a setting where there are parents/families or members of our leadership group this can and has led to some very awkward moments that we have had to try and laugh off.
August 04, 2022
Vimeo Failed Massively in Delivering Their Promise
Score 1 out of 10
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- Wistia and YouTube Live
The only thing was the ability to stream pre-recorded videos hosted on Vimeo which recently totally failed to deliver and that's why we are leaving.
July 30, 2021
To Vimeo, your privacy preferences actually matter
Score 8 out of 10
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The privacy guarantees and assurances provided by Vimeo was the key factor in choosing Vimeo.
April 08, 2021
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Cinesend is a MUCH slicker platform. It integrates well with our website, and provides a much better branded experience. It costs slightly less, and provides much better access to information and user control.
If you have a reasonable level of website knowledge in your company, and gross over $50,000 per year, [I feel] it is a no-brainer to go with CineSend (or almost any other competitor) over Vimeo.
If you have a reasonable level of website knowledge in your company, and gross over $50,000 per year, [I feel] it is a no-brainer to go with CineSend (or almost any other competitor) over Vimeo.
Score 3 out of 10
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May 05, 2020
Highly disappointed with Vimeo
Score 3 out of 10
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We are currently looking at Dacast as an alternative option to Vimeo for many obvious reasons. However, we have not tried Dacast yet, we will be doing a free trial next week. While they offer a lower storage that Vimeo, and cost about 400 more per year than Vimeo, they offer 24/7 live support, which to us, is paramount. So, we are willing to pay for their great customer support alone. They also have more sophisticated online tools than Vimeo. Once we have tried them, personally, I can update this section of my review.
April 23, 2020
Vimeo was the best move for our company.
Vimeo leaves ClickMeeting in the dust when comparing compatibility on social media and other platforms. Vimeo has also been proven to be much more customizable. In ClickMeeting for example, video formatting may be changed if a certain font is not recognized by ClickMeeting. It will find the closest font style to that in your document (unless you use a PDF). That issue has not presented itself in Vimeo. While ClickMeeting is much more tech-savvy, Vimeo is true to the services it provides without any hiccups.
March 10, 2020
Vimeo has helped us find so much new work!
We publish our films to Vimeo and YouTube, but our films come first to Vimeo by way of Frame.io, which is our client editing platform. The videos move over from Frame.io to Vimeo effortlessly, with longer films moving slowly and shorter films moving quickly. After the films are in Vimeo, the tags added, the description added etc... we then share to YouTube. Compared to YouTube, Vimeo is AMAZING! YouTube is super cumbersome to use and not intuitive. Vimeo is the opposite in the best way, Vimeo is easy to use and easy to set up.
February 29, 2020
Boutique Video Service Evokes Artsy Sophistication
For our business applications, the primary competitor to Vimeo is YouTube, although Dailymotion is arguably a competitor for some of our business applications, though not others. The most complete full-featured competitor for our business use cases is YouTube, and I think Vimeo stacks up very favorably against YouTube. Vimeo has much better UI and design, and overall a much higher production quality of videos. YouTube became notorious for having a low quality of user comments, although their filtering has gotten much better in recent years. Still, Vimeo gives the appearance of being a luxury, premium, boutique video delivery service. Whether it is for screencasting, product demos, instructional videos, or other content related to our business, Vimeo is preferred every time for its sleek elegance and above-average UI design.
However, there are some areas where Vimeo fails. One is search, and another is discovery. For consumer-facing videos aimed at garnering a wide audience, YouTube may be the better choice, as there are more chances for people to find your videos on there. Vimeo simply does not have good search and recommendation features for connecting videos to each other.
However, there are some areas where Vimeo fails. One is search, and another is discovery. For consumer-facing videos aimed at garnering a wide audience, YouTube may be the better choice, as there are more chances for people to find your videos on there. Vimeo simply does not have good search and recommendation features for connecting videos to each other.
February 27, 2020
Why I love Vimeo!
We also use YouTube to publish our films, but that is more for SEO sake than for everyday use. Vimeo is the primary way we share films whether via the direct URL or by sharing the video link on our social media.
February 18, 2020
Vimeo for online courses!
Dropbox takes much longer to upload than Vimeo. Vimeo is much more user-friendly and allows for more customization.
November 16, 2019
Great full service video hosting and sharing product for (most of) your company's needs.
We also use Youtube to host our videos, but rely principally on Vimeo for hosting them to our site and sharing them with others. Vimeo has a great feature where it allows you to update a video if you ever make changes to it. While the video file changes, the URL and all embeds created from that video remain the same. It works like magic, and is something that YouTube has never had.
August 01, 2019
Get ready to go with Vimeo
March 12, 2019
High Quality Videos for the Creative Industry
Vimeo is best suited for internal video sharing and proofing as well as video storage for creatives, such as video editors and marketers. I think most organizations who need a simple, lightweight access-controlled video sharing platform should use Vimeo since it is easy enough to learn and implement.
March 09, 2019
Vimeo Pro: A Must Have
We've tried YouTube in the past, and it's just not as good as Vimeo. Vimeo is a software that's built for professionals. And while it doesn't have the "marketability" of Youtube, it looks and FEELS better than a traditional YouTube setting, which is quickly becoming a platform that's phased out of our industry.
March 06, 2019
Vimeo; A great platform for great videos!
YouTube was the platform we primarily used previously, after having restrictions and having locked out of a couple of accounts we needed a better platform. We also lost some of our videos. We also have an internal app to track client videos and Vimeo supported it better. With the increased storage and the number of videos we create, we decided Vimeo would be better.
The only competitor we've used to Vimeo is YouTube. Both offer embedded players, basic view counts, etc... but Vimeo has (in my opinion) easier customization for embed options, security features, and thumbnail selection. Youtube has a better recommendation system and the ability for videos to be randomly seen. In our experience, Vimeo is great for an internal tool for storage and embedding and internal sharing, and YouTube is great for a social media platform.
March 05, 2019
Take Video Streaming to a higher level at a lower price
In higher ed we have a couple of options that integrate directly with our LMS (Blackboard/Canvas) that are comparable. Kaltura is outstanding but it's very expensive whereas I've found Viddler(and YouTube) to be much more simplistic. I've worked with other tools that want to charge based on the number of views or how much bandwidth you demand but I have always found that to be erratic. For budgeting purposes, I prefer to you just a sent annual fee like Vimeo.
March 02, 2019
Great for embedded video hosting
I recall that we looked at YouTube and Wistia. We were looking for a solid, no-frills solution to host and embed videos within our application, and Vimeo just seemed to do that the best, and at the best price.
- Zoom
We use Zoom for a lot of recordings (webinars, videos, etc.) but it doesn't stack up to Vimeo Pro in terms of features and functionality. So we just use Zoom for recording purposes now.
- Dropbox, Box and Google Drive
In my opinion, Vimeo Pro beats these competing products hands down because it has customizable features and just for video. The other services treat your videos only as files (indistinguishable from other file types except by their extension and preview). The ability to offer passwords, control playback speed’s, get review comments, and share quickly between these platforms (when necessary), makes Vimeo Pro my favorite.
March 01, 2019
Vimeo Pro works!
Wistia's pricing is so weird. They charge you monthly, and by how many videos you host.
Vimeo has a flat fee, with an upload limit (which I was close to hitting once in 4 years).
Wistia has better tracking and organization, and it's cleaner. But Wistia's embed is pretty heavy on a site.
Vimeo's embed was highly customizable, and I (the developer) was able to make my own version of the video player with it's own sets of features.
Vimeo has a flat fee, with an upload limit (which I was close to hitting once in 4 years).
Wistia has better tracking and organization, and it's cleaner. But Wistia's embed is pretty heavy on a site.
Vimeo's embed was highly customizable, and I (the developer) was able to make my own version of the video player with it's own sets of features.
February 12, 2019
Vimeo is perfect for Video Freelancers
Vimeo by far surpasses Dropbox. There aren't many options with Dropbox, and essentially it's used to store your videos. Although they just rolled out a new feature to allow timecoded edits, which is something Vimeo is lacking.
Frame.io is the best software to use for sending clients videos to comment on. You can write and draw on a still from the video and get immediate timecoded edits-- this is something Vimeo doesn't offer. But I can't use Frame.io as a good showcase of my work, it's simply to just get feedback. Vimeo is best for really showing everything you have in a clean way.
Frame.io is the best software to use for sending clients videos to comment on. You can write and draw on a still from the video and get immediate timecoded edits-- this is something Vimeo doesn't offer. But I can't use Frame.io as a good showcase of my work, it's simply to just get feedback. Vimeo is best for really showing everything you have in a clean way.
December 19, 2018
Vimeo Pro Makes You Look Like a Pro
For the reasons previously mentioned, both tools are useful ways for companies to get their message out to the public via video, but Vimeo Pro has a more professional approach with higher quality video, which is why we use it to display our internal and external videos. It's the best way to look like a professional to your audience.