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Vimeo, LLC
File:Vimeo Screenshot.png
Screenshot of Vimeo's homepage
Type of businessSubsidiary, limited liability company
Type of site
Video hosting service
Available inEnglish
FoundedNovember 2004
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerIAC (2004–present)
Founder(s)Zach Klein, Jake Lodwick
Key peopleZach Klein (CEO)
Jake Lodwick (CEO)
URLVimeo.com
AdvertisingIAC Advertising
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Vimeo (/ˈvɪm.iːˌoʊ/)Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). 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 name Vimeo 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."[2]

Vimeo does not allow commercial videos, gaming videos,[3] pornography, or anything not created by the user to be hosted on the site.[4]

Popularity

As of March 2010, Vimeo has over 3 million members and an average of more than 16,000 new videos uploaded daily.[5] Roughly 10% of uploads are in HD.[6]

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[citation needed] 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,[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] This makes it possible for full length, high-definition feature films to be uploaded to Vimeo by Vimeo Plus users.

Vimeo Awards

Vimeo's first annual Vimeo Awards took place October 8-9, 2010 in New York City, dedicated towards showcasing and awarding creative video content hosted on the site.[10] Festival judges for the nine competitive categories included David Lynch, Morgan Spurlock, Rian Johnson, M.I.A., and Charlie White.[11] The competition received over 6500 entries. Winners were chosen for each category, with the documentary finalist "Last Minutes with Oden" taking home the $25,000 grand prize. Ben Briand's short narrative "Apricot" won the Community Choice Award.

The two-day festival included video screenings and workshops from the likes of Philip Bloom, Lawrence Lessig, and DJ Spooky, and an award show hosted by Ze Frank. A 3D projection-mapping displayed on the Vimeo HQ/IAC building concluded the festival.

Gaming videos deletion

On July 21, 2008, Vimeo announced that they were no longer going to allow gaming videos because:

"Gaming videos are by nature significantly larger and longer than any other genre on Vimeo. Over these last few months they have been the single biggest reasons for our transcoder wait times."

— Blake Whitman, Community Director[3]

Pre-existing gaming videos were deleted on September 1, 2008. All new uploads are currently subject to this rule.

However, Machinima videos with a story of their own are still permitted.[12]

Censorship

Vimeo is censored by the following countries:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Vimeo.com Site Info". Alexa Internet, Inc. 13. Retrieved 30 June 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Danny Allen (21 August 2007). "Vimeo video-sharing service review". PC World. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Uploading rules".
  4. ^ "Community guidelines". Vimeo. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  5. ^ About page
  6. ^ Darren Murph (17 September 2008). "Vimeo now hosting one million videos, 10% in HD". Engadget. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  7. ^ everyday by Noah Kalina on Vimeo
  8. ^ Vimeo.com
  9. ^ Gizmodo.com
  10. ^ "Vimeo Awards".
  11. ^ "Vimeo Award judges".
  12. ^ Community Guidelines

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