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  • March 12th, 2013

    Vimeo Now Lets Pro Subscribers Charge For Access To Their Videos With ‘Vimeo On Demand’

    Vimeo On Demand allows creators on the site to set their own prices and provides geo-fencing and other tools to control which areas their content is available in. They can also create custom landing pages for their projects, and the ability to provide clips or trailers as a way to entice viewers to purchase their longer-form version of their content. → Read More

    March 5th, 2013

    Focused On Monetization, IAC’s Video Site Vimeo Appoints Its 1st CFO, Media Vet Mark Pinney

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    Vimeo, the IAC-owned user-generated video site with 15 million members that competes against YouTube and others like DailyMotion, is getting down to the business of making money, and to that end it today announced that it would be appointing Mark Pinney as its first CFO. → Read More

    February 28th, 2013

    Vimeo Adds “Looks” To Its Enhancer Toolbox, Powered By Visual FX Specialist Vivoom

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    Vimeo is helping its creators to improve their videos through a series of visual effects that it’s calling “Looks.” The new feature will provide more than 500 different filters its creators can use to enhance their videos, all of which can be added, previewed, and selected through a cloud-based editor on Vimeo’s site. They’ll be able to see how effects look compared against their… → Read More

    February 27th, 2013

    Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor Talks Echograph Acquisition, Monetization, And The Future Of Mobile Video Creation

    For Vimeo, the David to YouTube’s Goliath, the focus moving forward will be on creating and delivering mobile video, according to CEO Kerry Trainor.

    A big part of that future focus will come from Echograph, a GIF-making app that was recently acquired by Vimeo in a deal whose details weren’t disclosed. → Read More

    February 14th, 2013

    Vimeo Acquires Animated GIF App Echograph As Mobile Video Sharing Space Heats Up Thanks To Vine

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    Vimeo has acquired GIF-style video making app Echograph, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed, the company announced today. The price paid for the iPhone and iPad app from Clear-Media was not disclosed, but as a result of the deal Vimeo will now be offering the previously paid app (which was $2.99) for free via the App Store. → Read More

    December 6th, 2012

    HootSuite Gets Creative, Now Integrates Vimeo For Video, WordPress For Blogs, And Pinterest Tracking

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    HootSuite, now at 5 million users, built its reputation as an enterprise tool to manage engagement on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ — with Twitter being an especially close partner for the Vancouver startup. But as it pursues its ambition to be a dashboard for business engagement across all of the web, and for more than just marketeers and social media managers… → Read More

    November 28th, 2012

    Vimeo Updates Its iPhone App To Simplify Uploads And Improve Sharing

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    Video-sharing site Vimeo has updated its iPhone app, working to improve its upload process and simplify navigation for watching other people’s videos. Changes revolve around things that Vimeo has taken out, rather than what it’s put in. The app has streamlined the process of getting their videos onto Vimeo, first by removing the editor and by making uploads a lot faster. → Read More

    November 13th, 2012

    Vimeo Previews Its Pay-To-View Movie Service, Adding Another Monetization Option For Content Owners

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    Vimeo is launching the preview version of its upcoming “pay-to-view” service, highlighted by six films that viewers will be able to pay to access not only through the Vimeo website, but also through mobile, tablet, and other connected devices that its videos are available on. Users who purchase a video will have it show up in their “Watch Later” lists. → Read More

    September 19th, 2012

    Vimeo Offers Tips-Based Monetization For Videos, Creator-Controlled Pay Walls Coming Soon

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    Vimeo is a great site that’s done a lot for independent online video creation and publishing, but one thing that’s been missing from its platform is a way for creators to make money directly from their movies. The video network now offers that, thanks to a new Tip Jar feature rolling out today. It allows Vimeo Plus or Pro members to add tip buttons to any video content, so that users can click and… → Read More

    August 29th, 2012

    Dropbox Teams With Vimeo For Direct Video Uploads

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    Today Dropbox and Vimeo have put their heads together to let Dropbox users upload content directly to Vimeo.

    Both companies have done a lot in the past few months to improve their user experiences. Dropbox now lets you share with links, and it was only a few months ago that Vimeo revamped the interface entirely, followed closely by the addition of customizable music options and a cloud-based→ Read More

    April 11th, 2012

    Pinterest Rolls Out Vimeo Integration For More Video Pinning Pleasure

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    Pinterest is increasingly not just for photos anymore. The company today announced that users can now pin Vimeo videos on the virtual pinboard site. This is the second video integration for Pinterest — the site rolled out support for YouTube videos back in August 2011.

    The Vimeo integration could very well push video pinning to a new level of usage. Vimeo is known for attracting videos from a… → Read More

    October 21st, 2011

    Videos Not Interactive Enough For You? Make Them Go Up to 11 With Viewbix

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    I love finding services that bring value to small businesses. Viewbix falls squarely into that category.

    ViewBix comes from the founders of Qoof, who gave agencies and advertisers a way to easily create interactive videos. The need for customization, however, tended to bring a lot of friction to the selling process.

    For SMBs, it was pretty much completely out of scope. This was frustrating… → Read More

    September 21st, 2011

    Vimeo Launches Audiosocket-Powered Music Store To Bring Tunes To Video

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    At F8 on Thursday, The Social Network will by all accounts be making its official foray into music, with scrobbling and music content galore headed straight for our news feeds. Ahead of Facebook’s new music service, Vimeo is announcing its own musical news, thank you very much, that has some interesting implications for artists and filmmakers and music technology. You may know Vimeo as the quality… → Read More

    September 30th, 2010

    After YouTube, Turkey moves to ban video sharing site Vimeo

    Turkish courts have famously banned video sharing juggernaut YouTube several times since March 2007. The site still isn’t accessible, despite the fact that Turkey’s president Abdullah Gül used his Twitter account last June to express disapproval of the country’s blocking of YouTube. Gül at the time said he had instructed officials to find legal ways of allowing access.

    But now we’re getting… → Read More

    September 30th, 2010

    After YouTube, Turkey Moves To Ban Video Sharing Site Vimeo

    Turkish courts have famously banned video sharing juggernaut YouTube several times since March 2007. The site still isn’t accessible, despite the fact that Turkey’s president Abdullah Gül used his Twitter account last June to express disapproval of the country’s blocking of YouTube. Gül at the time said he had instructed officials to find legal ways of allowing access.

    But now we’re getting… → Read More

    August 17th, 2010

    Roku Hits 50 Media Streaming Channels With The Addition Of Vimeo

    Roku is on a tear lately. After launching the Flixster movie trailer channel a few weeks back, the Vimeo channel will hit the channel list later day today, making it the 50th streaming video channel on the network. And what a great service to bring to the device. Vimeo might not be as popular as other video sharing sites, but its content is superb. There are really nice videos Vimeo from a wide… → Read More

    January 5th, 2010

    State Of The Vlogosphere: 70% of Video Blogs Are Hosted On Five Sharing Sites

    Media search and discovery site MeFeedia this morning released its first State of the Vlogosphere report since 2007. The main take-away: video blogs have exploded since the last update, but most vloggers stick to the best known video hosting sites for distribution and promotion purposes.

    No surprises there, but since MeFeedia’s video search engine self-reportedly tracks over 30,000 video sources… → Read More

    December 1st, 2009

    VidQue Aims To Do A Better Job Surfacing Online Videos Worth Watching

    Every minute, approximately 20 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube, so it won’t surprise you if I say that it’s impossible for any human being to watch everything on there in the span of one lifetime – provided anyone would even want to.

    The standard of quality of videos that are uploaded to YouTube or other video sharing platforms like Vimeo or Blip.tv is subject to debate, as is the ability… → Read More

    November 11th, 2009

    Vimeo begins to play nice with iPhone, Android devices

    The lack of Flash support on the iThings (i.e. phone, touch) and all but one Android device has made it rather difficult for Flash-based video sites to penetrate the ever-expanding smartphone video-consuming market. While YouTube has implemented a workaround for this problem (by encoding each uploaded video in both Flash AND as .mp4 files), other sites (arguably with less resources) have been much… → Read More

    February 19th, 2009

    Embed YouTube and Vimeo videos in slides at Slidesix

    Todd over at SlideSix recently cooked up a couple nice additions for this slide-sharing service, to make it a more useful offering in this age of mashups and interconnected media. First and foremost, he’s added a robust API to allow third-party integration, so enterprising developers can build upon the SlideSix foundation. And it’s now possible to search for and embed YouTube and Vimeo… → Read More

    January 30th, 2009

    YouTube's Chad Hurley: "We Have The Largest Library of HD Video On The Internet."

    It is early days for HD video on the Web, but already we are starting to see jostling for position in this nascent part of the Web video market. Less than two months after YouTube started streaming high-definition videos in a major way, CEO Chad Hurley is now claiming bragging rights as the biggest HD video site on the Web. At a panel today at Davos, he said:

    We feel we have the largest→ Read More

    September 29th, 2008

    YouTube Gets More Competitive With Upload Redesign, Larger File Sizes

    YouTube has been criticized in the past for not offering the experience already being offered on services like Viddler or Vimeo where users can upload large file sizes and input video information while it’s being uploaded. But in an announcement that should make its users happy, YouTube has finally seen the light and has started offering a new Upload process redesign that will more effectively→ Read More

    September 19th, 2008

    D90 and Panasonic HVX200 high-def video battle

    The Chronicle Project over on Vimeo took Nikon’s latest DSLR, the D90, and pitted its HD video capability against a true, $5200 high-def camcorder, the Panasonic HVX200. It’s a tad surprising that while the HVX does beat out the D90 in resolution and clarity, the D90 has better color depth and an overall fine picture. Camera geeks will point out that both pictures could be better with… → Read More

    April 2nd, 2008

    Korea's Pandora.TV Looks To International Markets

    Pandora.TV, South Korea’s largest user generated video site, is expanding into new markets with additional language support and features. Pandora.TV launched in 2004 and has grown to become the “YouTube of Korea,” ranking as the countries 24th most popular site according to Alexa (comScore data is not available) with 20 million monthly unique visitors, 2.5 billion monthly page… → Read More

    November 30th, 2007

    Vimeo Founder Fired, Does A Bong Hit

    Jakob Lodwick, the co-founder of IAC owned video site Vimeo, left the company today. The reason? Apparently Lodwick didn’t see eye to eye with the IAC brass on creative issues, and specifically had a run in with IAC chief Barry Diller three weeks ago. That’s not surprising, given the picture Lodwick chose to include with his goodbye post. A source close to Lodwick says “he was… → Read More

    November 30th, 2007

    YouTube Leads, But No Sign Of Vimeo

    New figures released by comScore show that YouTube remains the outright leader in online video. Based on videos viewed, Google owned sites (YouTube + Google Video, but mostly YouTube) commanded a 28.3% market share in the United States in September with Fox Interactive Media (FIM) sites (MySpace and others) on 4.2%. The figures (see chart) demonstrate that YouTube doesn’t dominate video… → Read More

    October 28th, 2007

    Flixster For Sale; IAC Interested

    Fast growing movie-centered social network Flixster has been making the rounds with potential buyers, we’ve heard from multiple sources. And IAC may have submitted a letter of intent in the last week or so. The San Francisco based company has had a meteoric rise since launching in January 2006, although Comscore suggests growth has stagnated over the last few months – worldwide unique… → Read More

    October 10th, 2007

    Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit

    Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006. Since then, the name “YouTube” has become virtually synonymous with “online video sharing”. According to Comscore, the website maintains a sizable lead over competitors with 205,593,000 unique… → Read More

    November 6th, 2005

    Comparing The Flickrs of Video

    I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is YouTube, which we profiled in August and which recently raised venture money from Sequoia. But there are at least eight others worth looking at as well. In addition to YouTube, these are CastPost, ClipShack… → Read More