That's a really interesting observation. After reading it a couple times, I came to the same conclusion. In an attempt to explain that conclusion, my guess is:

That's a really interesting observation. After reading it a couple times, I came to the same conclusion. In an attempt to explain that conclusion, my guess is: * It's simple and clean and not spammy. It does what a video player should do - play video - and not much else. * The artist crowd who truly care about their craft post their content on Vimeo. Thus the content I watch on it tends to be of higher quality and I may be subconsciously associating that with Vimeo itself.