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All other youtube alternatives suck. Buy.

by Bancakes 5y ago

oth001 5y ago
Buy?
- ArchOversight 5y ago
  Buy the shares, as there is no other competitor is how I am reading that...
  - mcny 5y ago
    DishTV also has no direct (pun intended) competition but it isn’t a buy. I don’t know anything about Vimeo but just stating the obvious: not having direct competition does not make something a buy automatically.
halfway_there 5y ago
They actually had a major pivot to content creation a few years ago, and could now be considered more of a partner than a competitor to YouTube
arkitaip 5y ago
Or don't because Vimeo has little growth potential and a product that has gone stale. Also, imagine just how trivial it would be for YT to copy paste Vimeo's offering (long videos, no ads, etc) rn. My guess is that Vimeo is such a non-entity to YT that they haven't even bothered gobbling up the tiny niche.
- deleted 5y ago
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brigade 5y ago
They don’t want to be anything like YouTube, they want to be a video hosting backend instead.
- gogopuppygogo 5y ago
  Cloudflare now does this for $5/month for 1,000 minutes of video. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
  - ashraymalhotra 5y ago
    Cloudflare is comparable to https://mux.com/ https://mux.com/, not Vimeo. Vimeo's embed settings are supposed to be directly used by marketing teams, not developers.
    - toomuchtodo 5y ago
      Could Cloudflare and Mux not copy Vimeo’s embed tooling?
  - brigade 5y ago
    I exaggerate, but it seems like they’re focusing on OTT, which provides full turnkey websites and apps you can slap your brand on and then fill with videos. Kinda the polar opposite of YouTube. Personally, I don’t know how much future these 1000s of $12/mo subscription services have, but I’m far from the target market of like, all of them.
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  - akudha 5y ago
    $1 per 1000 minutes. If one 10 minute video becomes semi popular, let’s say 100k views, that is 1M minutes, and a $1000 bill. That’s For one semi popular video! This is insanely expensive for nearly everyone except mega corporations with huge budgets
  - Mindwipe 5y ago
    Cloudflare's offering isn't really designed for small creators who want to send rushes/pilots etc around without paying for a studio level security solution. Or marketing teams for non-critical video. That's kind of Vimeo's niche.
rwmj 5y ago
How will vimeo make money? I've never seen an advert on the platform.
homero 5y ago
Vimeo has been the worst video site I've been on.

All other youtube alternatives suck. Buy.

oth001 5y ago

Buy?

ArchOversight 5y ago
Buy the shares, as there is no other competitor is how I am reading that...
- mcny 5y ago
  DishTV also has no direct (pun intended) competition but it isn’t a buy. I don’t know anything about Vimeo but just stating the obvious: not having direct competition does not make something a buy automatically.

halfway_there 5y ago

They actually had a major pivot to content creation a few years ago, and could now be considered more of a partner than a competitor to YouTube

arkitaip 5y ago

Or don't because Vimeo has little growth potential and a product that has gone stale. Also, imagine just how trivial it would be for YT to copy paste Vimeo's offering (long videos, no ads, etc) rn. My guess is that Vimeo is such a non-entity to YT that they haven't even bothered gobbling up the tiny niche.

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brigade 5y ago

They don’t want to be anything like YouTube, they want to be a video hosting backend instead.

gogopuppygogo 5y ago
Cloudflare now does this for $5/month for 1,000 minutes of video. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
- ashraymalhotra 5y ago
  Cloudflare is comparable to https://mux.com/ https://mux.com/, not Vimeo. Vimeo's embed settings are supposed to be directly used by marketing teams, not developers.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Could Cloudflare and Mux not copy Vimeo’s embed tooling?
- brigade 5y ago
  I exaggerate, but it seems like they’re focusing on OTT, which provides full turnkey websites and apps you can slap your brand on and then fill with videos. Kinda the polar opposite of YouTube. Personally, I don’t know how much future these 1000s of $12/mo subscription services have, but I’m far from the target market of like, all of them.
  - deleted 5y ago
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- akudha 5y ago
  $1 per 1000 minutes. If one 10 minute video becomes semi popular, let’s say 100k views, that is 1M minutes, and a $1000 bill. That’s For one semi popular video! This is insanely expensive for nearly everyone except mega corporations with huge budgets
- Mindwipe 5y ago
  Cloudflare's offering isn't really designed for small creators who want to send rushes/pilots etc around without paying for a studio level security solution. Or marketing teams for non-critical video. That's kind of Vimeo's niche.

rwmj 5y ago

How will vimeo make money? I've never seen an advert on the platform.

homero 5y ago

Vimeo has been the worst video site I've been on.