“Vimeo. AI-powerd video platform”.
Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.
Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website for users in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed by its owners.
by its owners
They have new owners, apparently.
Seems to be a typical buyout into milking and eroding cycle.
Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?
Edit: yes it is
“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."
Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout
that might age poorly
Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem. I don’t think they will loose much sleep over this.
True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.
What you lose is audience. People often aren’t willing to replatform for a single creator.
But they won’t be asked to replatform. Dropout have their own website. Them changing service provider should be mostly invisible to consumers.
I’m sure it’ll be noticeable, but Dropout could market it as a fancy new update/UI. Users definitely aren’t going to have to migrate anywhere.
Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.
Need to solve the discover-ability of it though. Peertube is only useful if you know what you’re going there for.
Week need a Peektube to accompany it
I have seen a few smaller ones pop up too (admittedly not open source) like Nebula. I could see the appeal of a professional hosting service for creators
I don’t know about Floatplane or Nebula, but Dropout uses Vimeo as their back end. So this could impact some of the independent guys.
Ah shit, I hadn’t thought of that. Hopefully this gives them a kick to upgrade their system or get something of their own.
Floatplane too i guess.
Patreon seems like the most likely competitor. I think some content is now hosted directly there.
That will simply never happen, YouTube I think is a two digit percentage of global Internet traffic.
I doubt Vimeo was putting up numbers that actually competed, either, but it was there as an alternative.
Not a good news both for users and creators.
Price hikes coming… As usual with this company.
Who uses it?
Companies that want control over their videos. I.e. not to have ads play, not to have their videos followed by suggested content that sends viewers to competitors, nor have that alternate content show when the UI is paused or interacted with. It also allows updating of videos (whereas YouTube makes you upload a new video and you loose all links or view stats/momentum from the switch)
Pretty popular among film students and indie filmmakers
Mainly creators of visual content from all backgrounds
That’s wild, because I recall seeing job postings for Vimeo as recently as 2 months ago.
Job postings don’t necessarily mean that they’re actually hiring. Sometimes job postings are used to appear healthy in public.
That or they post them so they can say they did before promoting within, hiring based on nepotism, or to be able to do a H1B hire.
Not very often though.
More often than you think. I‘ve seen some shocking claims about ghost job listings on LinkedIn. It’s estimated almost one out of four listings are made without the intend to hire someone.
Of course you can be skeptical about these numbers so feel free to look up the term „ghost job listings“.
However it does echo what many applicants have been complaining about for years. They apply and get turned down immediately with company claiming they already filled the position or that applicants didn‘t meet some absolutely ridiculous criteria. Meanwhile the job listing stays up for months or even years. Doesn‘t take a genius to realize that listing was never serious and they only did it for research.
Companies don’t stop hiring, at least in tech. They can force out more expensive talent and hire in cheaper areas or get more junior talent. You could very well interview your potential replacement.
Looks like they’ve been leaning hard into AI. Ugh.
What makes you say that? The Business Insider source from the comments on the linked page doesn’t talk about AI at all. But describes how they were bought, by a firm that does this cycle of buy and layoff.
Because they’ve titled their home page as such. Here’s what I see when I search.
Hyaenas doing hyaena things.
Does Vimeo own their own their own infrastructure, or just lease streaming storage from AWS/Google/Whomever?
If the former, it could be a good takeover target.
Your logic is sound, but Bending Spoon is not know to care about value. If Vimeo owns any infrastructure, they’ll sell at it at ebay.
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