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Put another way videos uploaded by the average user earned vimeo 'x' dollars over the last month. Without any revenue they close up. How many customers can th

by wolco 7y ago

Put another way videos uploaded by the average user earned vimeo 'x' dollars over the last month. Without any revenue they close up. How many customers can they afford to lose? 5%,10%, 90% If they don't support the free tier users they will lose them. At one point vimeo was making a serious run for global marketshare.. now it looks like they are in a different market..

muglug 7y ago
> At one point vimeo was making a serious run for global marketshare Vimeo hasn't been going for global marketshare of video watching in well over a decade - it ceded that competition to YouTube very early on by policing content more actively (Viacom sued YouTube in 2007 for $1B because of its lax enforcement of rules). Vimeo chose a different direction, launching a paid account in 2008: https://vimeo.com/1977937 https://vimeo.com/1977937