We wrote a whole website around it at one point, we are in the video production business and we wanted our videos "play everywhere" with hassle or bandwidth limits. We even had a Christmas video go viral. Vimeo handled our swelling viewership like a champ with no extra fees or charges of any kind. We got tens of thousands of views.

This video platform is valuable, it does good things. At first, I was a little put off and I asked myself why can't I just host these video on Youtube for free? Why should I pay for this service every month. Vimeo does some pretty great things, first and foremost, Vimeo is discreet, it doesn't add commercials before OR after your videos. You videos get full attention and you control what the end user sees. This is perfect for hosting videos on a corporate website or small Wordpress site. You can even customize how the player looks and where the videos are allowed to play. Other paid sites cost much more for the same features.

The internal user interface can be clunky at times, you can sometimes get lost in there. But in general, it works well and allows you to save presets on some things that make consistency easier. i.e every video has the same qualities.

Vimeo allows us to store our videos without any fear of losing access to them and provides us with an easy ability to share them. With plenty of upload capacity each week, we have never exhausted our data.

Vimeo is the place to go for hosting your professional videos. Why? I love the ability to I have to completely customize how my videos are used on the web. From private to public, to embedding and having unlimited ability to live stream, to multiple users and plenty of storage to upload every week, Vimeo Premium is great! We use this service every week as an essential to our church's media presence online. They are so much more than just hosting to us. They help our workflow and sharing ability across all platforms.

Vimeo Premium costs $75/month. There are two cheaper packages that may suit your needs. However, you do have to be able to justify the cost.

So far my overall experience with Vimeo Pro has been great and I've recommended it to many of my colleagues.

What I like most about Vimeo Pro is that it allows my company to host all of our content professionally and it uploads and plays in full HD and 4k. It's easy, fast to upload, and really takes our videos to another level quality wise compared to YouTube.

What I like least about Vimeo Pro is the price, but it's worth it because of all the features you get.

Vimeo's main competitors like Wistia cost so much more and for small businesses, most can't afford Wistia. Vimeo has been a fine option for video hosting, good value for money.

We have clients from all over the world and we found out later on that some clients couldn't view the video's hosted on Vimeo. We found out that Vimeo is banned in some countries, while that's not really their fault per se, but it is a pain in the butt as we didn't really have alternative options for video hosting for those countries.

Vimeo isn't only an upload platform, but also a positive social platform for any video creator. It is a great source of inspiration and can also be used for client reviews!

It is still not a place for "non-video people". Imagine a family wedding - people still expect you to upload to Youtube. Also, there should be a student plan (not sure if it already exists by now).

Vimeo has been an awesome alternative to YouTube and I hope they continue to expand on their current practices. If they do, then their base will too.

With our worlds increasingly sensitive disposition to free speech; finding a place to upload videos that aren't toy reviews or make-up tutorials is getting harder and harder to do. Queue Vimeo- alternative to the restrictive YouTube. Oh, and its Ad-free too? Well shucks. I have to watch 4 ads at least on a 10 minute video on YouTube. Not to mention that some of those ads are 30 minutes long. So if you aren't right there to hit that skip button, you better get there because that ad for Purple Mattress is going to go on...and on...and on.

It may not have all the bells and whistles we've taken for granted with YouTube and have come to expect, but it takes time. Especially when working against a monopoly who is aligned with tech companies that like to censor and shut down competitors.

Fantastic. I will be using it for all small to mid-size media projects for a long time.

There isn't much of a downside to Vimeo or Vimeo plus. For a pretty reasonable price, Vimeo plus offers password-protection and a slick, professional-looking video player that we use for our educational tools and products.

Other than the fact that it costs money, there really isn't much of a downside. I suppose it would be nice to pay extra to remove the Vimeo branding but that's not a must in most cases.

Having a website with weekly videos can rapidly consume my server resources. So we needed a real video hosting platform that would be fast and straight forward to manage. We have that with Vimeo Pro.

For what it offers, Vimeo pro is really affordable. The ability to customize the player and embed settings are what i like the most.

I really like Vimeo, so i can't think of any con.

We love Vimeo and have been very pleased with our Vimeo Plus account for probably 7+ years now.

I love the Quality that Vimeo offers. It is such a cleaner look than YouTube. We use Vimeo to embed all of our videos into our website. I love the features where you can choose exactly what your embed looks like. Vimeo is incredibly powerful and we love the fact that people can also download the video directly from Vimeo.

I wish that the organization of files was a little more drag and drop. Sometimes I have uploaded videos out of order and wanted to reorganize them and haven't been able to, so Ive had to delete them and re-upload them in the order I wanted them.

When I was in college, this was seen as the professional and artistic version of video sharing. Youtube was seeing as juvenile and a place for vlogs and stuff like that. That was a bit more than ten years ago and Vimeo has less artsy stuff now and more paid streaming features, like feature films and pay-for-channels and Youtube has a lot more artistic videos but it's a mess to dig through. If you are attracted to Vimeo, you are probably in the right place. I use both Youtube and Vimeo for my short, animated films but I also use both services for tutorials, Tedtalks and art films, particularly Vimeo. Even to this day, a lot of indie and very hard to find art films will only be on Vimeo. Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog was such and example... now it's on DVD and Blueray, but for a long time if you didn't see it at a limited screening, it was only on Vimeo.

Lots of high quality features and functionality.

Not as popular as Youtube so you might not get as much traffic. I've had issues with embedding videos on some sites. I teach at a university and use academic platforms and sometimes they are not as compatible as Youtube or Daily Motion.

Vimeo has very good quality video uploading and strong compatibility. Becuase of this we use it for internal video and sharing proofs of videos being edited.

Vimeo doesn't do a great job of discovery compared to YouTube so we don't usually use the platform to publish public videos.

As a creative, I want to like Vimeo Pro. Heck! I used to love it. But love costs. But if I want to take advantage of more quality uploads and personalized support, this is my playground. If I want something quick and dirty there are other places I can go.

Vimeo's native video quality for its uploads are very high, which is great for content creators. With Pro subscription you get, secure sharing, advanced stats, video showcase, multi platform publishing, and more. There are multiple tier where you get even more features like livestreaming and VIP support.

You get what you pay for. The Vimeo priced model has jumped significantly over the last few years. Though it has dramatically increased its efforts to bring creative teams together, and smush content creators and their audiences into interactive digital play spaces, for someone new to the game the price may be a little high in comparison to other platforms (HI YOUTUBE!).

It is the best. I always have my professional content uploaded to Vimeo. I would strongly recommend this to any professional out there.

It is the best place for artists and all the creative minds to post their videos. Since this area is curated with professional work, you can always trust to come back to this website for inspiration.

I don't think one would complain about the features provided with the pro account. But for the free account, you need to wait in queue for your video to be uploaded. Which still is pretty quick.

We have used the paid version of Vimeo to store and display many of our works and educational pieces. Being Vimeo one of the giants for online videos, we feel calm about the security and operation of the platform. The display options with passwords or geolocation are great. Additionally, we can define exactly who and how we want to share the videos. It's great, easy and safe!

It is not necessarily a negative thing, but it is the reason why we do not continue using the service. For large companies it may not be a problem or a representative expense to pay monthly for this service. For smaller companies (like ours) a free (or cheaper) option that basically offers the same options may be more appropriate. Of course, it will not have as much style and cache as Vimeo, but it will work ...

I had to move a video library of 120+ videos from an FTP server to a video hosting platform. We selected Vimeo, and couldn't be more thrilled. It was very secure and parsed uploaded files into multiple deliverables so customers would get the video sized right for the device they were using to access the video.

Vimeo exceeded all expectations. When uploading videos, Vimeo would fork the file into multiple deliverables to have options to provide each user with the optimum file for their device/bandwidth. The security features were excellent. You can define passwords for videos or set specific sites that videos can be played on, but blocked from all others. There were other Intro and Outtro features that can be set with the tool (we didn't use this, but were aware of the capability). The analytics dashboard provided key details on video consumption. This allowed us to gather key information on what videos were successful and what made videos successful.

The one thing I would love to see offered by Vimeo is the ability to create a playlist of videos into a coordinated sequence or set of videos around a topic.

Vimeo Pro is a great way to upgrade your Vimeo experience with the extra data and advance privacy you can better connect with your market.

Vimeo Pro is a professional social media website, perfect to display your current artwork from films, to demo reels and progress updates. Its a great tool because of its professional archive of short films and artist. I would recommend this site to any artist looking for reference.

I find that the program works fine, It's reliable I have used it to work with professional and small clients.

My overall experience has been good. It has helped me keep my videos in a place where it can be seen easily by those looking into categories I work in, and provides an easy site to direct people to when I'm trying to show off my reel.

I really enjoy that there's just so much content on it. You can find just about anything you'd like to see. Also things are grouped into categories so it makes you feel like people who'd enjoy your work might actually see it if they just look, which is invigorating for an artist.

The free software doesn't allow for a lot of space to be used. I get that they're trying to get people to turn over to the paid version, but if you're thinking of uploading a lengthy short or a feature you'll definitely need to pay.

My overall experience is my team and I have our Short Film and Documentary Reel on our page and on our feed! We use the link attach to send to potential and existing customers and the user platform and or interface is extremely innovative and straightforward. People love how simple it is to access or content and if you don’t want to share all Of your work you can make it only visible to just you or to just a few people that’s just genius!

Well honestly I had this program/App for a while it’s amax for what I utilize it for but it offers more features that make this app AMAZINGLY Useful. Being able to upload content as well as Host content makes the app universal in its self. As well as like and watch different videos from all over the world! You can also create and edit which is also cool! Has great plans to choose from offers up to 8K video and unlimited bandwidth how could you lose! Those are just a few of the pros! Check out Vimeo on your App Store for a great service and a great price that isn’t to heavy! Definitely recommend this App!

I honestly have no cons for this App! This is app is a necessity in my line with of work and it does its job extremely well for the money spent!

Vimeo's paid offerings make it easy to upload, share, and manage large video libraries at the highest quality. It's the de-facto standard for digital screener sharing in the independent film and television sector. The admin and features are very easy to understand - and we've had no trouble training non-technical staff to set up even complicated videos with unusual combinations of security permissions. They have robust support for privacy control, embedding, subtitling and other accessibility features. As a major platform, most major encoders come pre-set with optimized profiles, and (in most cases) automatic upload functions available.

The paid offerings can sometimes be a difficult sell for very small companies/individuals as there are few services that Vimeo offers that can't be replicated by completely free alternatives (mostly via YouTube) - but the high quality and ad-free experience is often worth it.

When it comes to the overall experience, the superior quality of the end product and the features beats the processing time. Hence I strongly recommend it for those who looking for a real superior quality of the video streams regardless of money and time.

Vimeo is decent platform for us to play high quality video without and any commercial ads in all the time. Also it offer large video library with the high quality. Vimeo videos can simply embed into social media is an another advantage. It's very user-friendly and good value for the money as well. We can talk lot about Vimeo as it has plenty of features and functions.

The major drawback is the processing time, as we are paying for it we would except to do the job in less time consuming and also the time is the major constraint for me. Hence in that aspect Vimeo is failed to fit into the market.

We needed a quality and reliable host for our organization's video content with an additional layer of security that the likes of YouTube couldn't provide.

The feature that led our organization to selecting Vimeo above all else was the ability to restrict viewing of our videos by the domain or page they're listed on. For our primary use case of videos, it was important to protect our IP without risking someone simply sharing a link to the video.

Compared to YoutTube it seems that processing times of videos takes a bit longer. This doesn't cause any workflow issues for us and we've planned appropriately for posting our videos.

For a marketing company this is the best video storage. Sharing the videos across different platforms is just a single click away. We can always keep track of the video engagements and get the progress. Creating separate lists and embedding the videos have made it even more attractive for the clients to see. Best ever!

A part of our marketing services is video marketing. And we use a number of software to create unique and best videos for our client. And vimeo is our storage and platform which we use to share our videos. Having 200+ clients and several products means we have to create a number of videos per week. Vimeo pro allows you to upload 15+ GB per week, which is a must for us. The privacy is updated, we love that. You can make the changes on the same video and have the link not changed. That is very convenient for us when improvising ads.

I did have issues when looking up for old videos from profile, sometimes even if I search with the Video id, the video doesn't show up. I have to go deep into the video list to find the video.

We've used Vimeo Pro and Vimeo Plus plans for many years. Super customizable for embeds on sites and great stats.

1) There is no customization on ALL player controls or colors in embeds, just most. If you want an auto-play video with no progress bar or overlays, look elsewhere.

Used this tool to edit my and published my videos on the platform and shared private access to those that purchased our video training and its very effective with no access to download. Unlike YouTube that IDM can work with.

Vimeo is one of its kind in Video Publishing. With vimeo Pro, you can take advantage of as much as 20GB per week to store all your videos files and share access on the internet with ads free.

I should have said, for fun purposes, I would have loved to monetize my videos, but no YouTube is there. Aside from that, it's cool with video tools inclusive.

I've been using Vimeo for about a decade now. I first used it to upload my animation finals for college, and now I use it for my professional videos. The interface is super easy to navigate, and you can literally click and drag a file you want to upload so the learning curve is pretty much non existent as it is pretty straight forward. I do want to use the paid version and see how it differs as I've heard good things about it!

The only downside that I find is that the processing takes a bit long, but with that being the only drawback I think this does exactly what I need it to do and upload my videos. I do wish we had a bigger weekly upload amount.

Vimeo Pro has been an essential part of our video team's editing workflow and makes sharing videos with others internally very easy.

We use Vimeo Pro mostly to share work in progress and proofs. The quick upload and large amount of storage makes it an ideal solution for this.

The features available with Vimeo Pro are pretty basic. Changing video settings on mobile is a bit of a headache.

Excellent!! We subscribe to the Pro level of Vimeo to satisfy our weekly upload needs. It is GREAT!!!

Vimeo Pro allows me to manage our videos from my iPhone, which is extremely helpful when trying to publish weekly service videos. I always upload from a MacMini, but duties take me away from it. The app allows me to publish the video in two different formats after it is uploaded and processed. Helps me be in "two places at once!!"

I wish the statistical analysis on the app was a little more clear. I like the statistics I can access through a web browser, and wish I could get that same breakdown in the app.

I would highly recommend Vimeo Pro to anyone who is looking for video production. I cannot speak highly enough about the software, it’s ease of use and commitment to high quality.

I have used Vimeo Pro for about three years doing freelance work for clients — including short promotional videos and long-term projects. The ease of this software and it’s user friendly capabilities make this product a win-win for me in my daily use. I love how fast it processes videos and the again —- the ease of use!

The only thing that I don’t like is how I have to keep saving my projects — but it backs them up. That’s the only thing.

Vimeo allows our dance company to upload hours of dance rehearsal in a fraction of the time it takes on YouTube or Google Drive (both of which we have used in the past). We love it!

Vimeo allows our organization to easily and quickly upload the hours of dance footage we take each week. Part of our organization is a repertory dance company, so this is very important.

The videos we post on Vimeo that we want public don’t seem to be as searchable as other company’s videos on YouTube. Could be a feature difference, could be a Google/YouTube thing, not sure just something I’ve noticed!

Vimeo Pro is the perfect tool to use to have clients or a specific audience focus on a specific video without being inundated with ads for other products that can cause loss of interest or direct focus to another product. Vimeo Pro has the highest quality video and gives an extremely professional approach to your audience. I have used Vimeo Pro for years and find it easy to use and integrates with all platforms. Analytics, security, hosting, management and storage all of the highest quality. I would sincerely recommend Vimeo Pro as it has been the successful choice for us.

No ads play before the video unlike Youtube which has become saturated with ads. Videos easily embed into websites, email, or social media. This is the highest quality video product on the market.

Vimeo does not have the search engine force of Youtube and unfortunately does not play within an email but opens in a new window. Hopefully something can be done about the latter.

The couple of times I've contacted Customer Service have resulted in IMMEDIATE responses...usually in less than an hour. The quality of the video streams are far superior to YouTube and Daily Motion and I like the ability to link Vimeo videos to my Roku TV channel. They provide an excellent "hosting" and storage outlet.

I really like the non-filtering aspect of Vimeo - they in essence let you upload and post anything you want when you have a Pro account. Because they do not get the volume of hits YouTube gets, your videos are less likely to get nitpicked to death by automatic filters that sometimes call claim to something that is definitely not owned by someone else. I've stopped posting my videos on YouTube for the most part because of their constant unwarranted, incorrect claims on MY OWN material. With Vimeo, this is not an issue.

Their are only a couple of drawbacks. The first is Vimeo's processing time. Once a video is uploaded, it seems like it takes a very long to post once it's processed on Vimeo's side. The longer the video, the longer the processing (obviously), but it does seem to lag behind YouTube and Daily Motion. Still, the service and quality Vimeo offers is far superior...and again, that's because you pay for it. But I have no problems with paying because the service and quality are so good. The second issue is minor - if you want your videos to reach the widest audience, the typical search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) do not seem to pick up the Vimeo links as often as their YouTube results. Again, this is a minor issue for me.

Very pleasant with no issues.

Definately an alternative to Youtube without the advertisement and the restrictions on so many levels.

Did not develop fast enough to catch up with youtube but now I would say I would bet on Vimeo more than Youtube.

I've been using Vimeo to host video content since the beginning when it was only free. Since then they added plus+ which is an amazing Value for what you pay for. Then the prices went up. Vimeo Pro however is kind of worth it to have the more detailed analytics than the Plus+ membership. Suggested for Businesses that care about the small details.

Video Quality is superb! YouTube has nothing on Vimeo video compression.

Expensive... I don't need anyone else to access the account just the analytics. So for this Price tag gets really expensive. Wish it was part of the Plus+ plan.

Vimeo Pro is our most valuable tool. We use it for public posting, but the private review features and file delivery aspects are the real gem of the service.

This service is incredibly beneficial towards the work that our team produces. It is a professional person's YouTube, but on steroids. The review tool is an incredible feature that has helped us work through edit revisions in a streamlined and transparent way, ultimately minimizing the amount of unnecessary work we used to waste time doing.

It's something that you have to budget in appropriately, but the cost is worth the value.

We like it and we'll continue to use it as our main avenue for livestreaming school events.

I like that when you upload videos to this site you retain copyright ownership as opposed to Youtube who owns everything you upload.

The user interface is not the easiest to deal with and some of the settings for video encoding are limited.

Vimeo is rock-solid video hosting that our small media production team relies on for video delivery. The best praise I can give is that it always just works. We've never had a single issue, and I couldn't imagine ever switching our hosting to anywhere else.

I love Vimeo's clean modern look, it's simple yet powerful interface, and streaming quality. The privacy features and embedding controls are top-notch and make it easy to upload videos for a variety of uses for our clients.

The 5gb limit per week on the plus plan seems a little arbitrary and restrictive. Most of the time, that's plenty for our uses, but every once in a while it's an issue. A monthly cap would be much more friendly, especially for users who upload more sporadically.

I have used it for year for me and my clients and I love it. Unlike Youtube, you van control the "End Screen" on each video and make it blank or customize it.

The best part about this is you get way more control over how your video is displayed when embedding it on a page. You can cut out all the junk around the video like the play bar and tite and place a clean looking video on a page on your site or landing page.

Some on-site editing options would be nice.

We Vimeo to preview video projects with our clients, as well as sharing finished projects through our company Vimeo profile.

Vimeo Pro is a godsend for anyone in video production, such as myself. Unlike YouTube, Vimeo allows you to post videos in their original quality without any of the weird codecs/converting that YouTube applies to your content. I also love the fact that you can allow downloads from the video page, and the ability to upload a replacement video while retaining your likes and comments is by far my favorite feature.

My only complaint is the pricing. While there are multiple tiers, I wish that some of the lower priced options allowed you to upload a larger amount of content. I've also had times where the Vimeo servers don't respond and result in weird errors (like multiple uploads of the same video), but these have been very infrequent lately.

We are solving the problems of running out of storage space. This is a great way we can upload additional video. We also frequently need to send video elsewhere and we use Vimeo for that. Other businesses and platforms are able to easily see the video that we are sharing.

We have been using Vimeo for your business for three years now and have never had any complaints. I work for a television news website and sometimes we need to upload additional video that our individual system does not support. That's when we turn to Vimeo. All of the videos we've uploaded have been crystal clear.

The only real complaint we have is that we tend to run out of storage space each week. Also, we wish there was a way to remove the large title off the top of the screen. An option to make it smaller or remove it altogether would be nice.

My experience has been poor. I’ve lost my temper with tech support many times. They just don’t get it, how it should work.

Ability to make folders with passwords.

Poor tech support, slow response to customer needs, crappy app and even after you remove it from a mobile device you get prompted every time you go to play a video to download the crappy app. Inability to navigate and do all the things you do on a full browser on mobile. Slow, slow results of large showcases or folders. Needs a way to load these first as a list instead of a million images that take forever to load if you have many showcases. I could go on. I pay for many accounts that we’ve had for years and I’m tired of paying money for lack of support.

I use this to post it to multiple social media profiles and use the same on my website. Hosting all the videos in my web server effects the site performance, so I have shifted all my videos to vimeo as I didn't want youtube branding on my website video, Vimeo was the only choice for me.

Reliability, Speed and uptime were my main point considering vimeo. Never had a problem with the hosting whatsoever. It helps me post to different social media profiles like youtube, facebook and linkedin which saves my time. It allows me to add different description for different profiles. Add tags and upload custom thumbnail for youtube works right inside vimeo so I don't need to open my youtube again to add all the video info.

Need an option to add playlists for different topics. Maybe they should provide some more storage in the pro plan.

Vimeo is my preferred way to upload videos for our church. The features are easy to understand and any changes to the website I've seen over time have not been super overwhelming. It is user friendly for our viewers and I like that I can password protect, hide videos from the public page, and embed these files into emails with ease.

Their customer service is lacking. They take too long to respond and are not very helpful. I don't need their help too often - but I did have a billing issue for several weeks with no assistance from their tech department.

As a video editor and independent composer, I have facilitated contact with my clients to preview the progress of the projects.

Among what I like most about this platform is the possibility of managing your content, with custom url, upload updates, privacy settings, download, etc. Personally and professionally I love it.

I can't find something negative. Vimeo has always been a solid solution with few improvements over time.

Been using Vimeo in professional and personal environments for a long time, and it's definitely the best option in class that I've had the chance to use.

Pro is a really great option for small groups and individual professionals that need to upload, house, and share their media. Provided you keep your content to 20GB or less weekly, it's a very cost effective solution! Probably best suited to those creating several short HD videos weekly, or those creating a couple HD videos weekly.

With the 20GB weekly cap, you need to be aware of the quality of video you're capturing and then the output. Our org had to upgrade to another plan based on upgrades to our video equipment to film everything in 4k, and also based on the number of larger videos we're launching each week to a large org. Honestly, the only other reason to upgrade to a higher tier plan are the other features and livestreaming if that becomes a need.

Really good! I love the selection of videos and quality they offer

Easy to use, quality is really nice. Prefer it over YouTube. I like the variety of videos is as great mixture

Nothing just keep what they’re doing and they’ll get more positive reviews. YouTube is starting to suck

If you are an artist, producer, art director, filmmaker, or anyone else and need to find high quality reference content or a place to exhibit your work, surely opt for vimeo.

For me vimeo is the biggest and best online video platform available. You can upload content for free, find videos of unquestionable quality that are not available anywhere else. It's quite comprehensive, with a tab just for reference search, another for tutorial courses, among other amazing functions. The website design is beautiful, clean and functional, making it an excellent choice for creating an audiovisual portfolio or even browsing for inspiration.

There is no aspect I don't like about Vimeo, it is a very complete platform. For content producers looking to viralize their videos, you may want to look for other spaces that are stronger for this purpose.

We began using Vimeo for all of our digital video delivery. At first, many clients were concerned about their business and promotional videos being on YouTube. Now, we prefer Vimeo as a professional and easy to use way to deliver content to our clients without the marketing machine of Google in control of the content.

Vimeo Pro allows us much more storage than we had with the lower version, a feature we needed. Also, the Vimeo Pro live streaming is easier to use than ANY other service we have used. We usually do mulitcamera productions when we stream live, so we are coming out of a switcher. Vimeo handles the streams with no problems.

Vimeo Pro is costly. Whereas we pay a good amount of money for various softwares, Vimeo Pro is one that we debated whether it was worth it. So far, so good.

Creatives are using Vimeo and if you want more space, you won't regret in investing in Vimeo.

Professionals need this. This allows others the showcase their previous pieces of work. It's the standard for creatives and the paid membership is worth it.

To be honest, there isn't alot to complain about. My biggest issue is with the pricing. If it was a bit cheaper I'd be happy. You get what you pay for.

Vimeo has been around for quite a while and despite it's artsy appeal and cool functions, it's not quite a YouTube replacement. But, if you're looking for a place to showcase your video and film work and you're not interested in YouTube, Vimeo is worth checking out. Free accounts are easy to set-up but can be limited in space. Lots of customization tools too.

The lack of storage on the free version is very limiting.

I’ve loved the privacy options - some videos are shared publicly, some with a private link, some only can be embedded by me in areas I want (like courses).

Vimeo’s settings interface is easy to use - especially when you can create your own setting templates for various projects. I got Vimeo Pro to host course videos back in 2015 and still use them. Most platforms still require a 3rd party video host and Vimeo has been flawless to privately host course videos.

I wish the price was a bit lower, especially now that more course platforms host video. Still, I use Vimeo regularly and have zero complaints about how it serves our needs.

We're solving the problem of sharing an ever-increasing amount of videos that need to be embedded and downloaded by a number of people using Vimeo Pro. Eventually we may run out of storage, but for now up to 1TB is excellent for what we need.

Vimeo is the rock of our video production team as far as delivering files. We love the wide variety of options we have for displaying, sharing, embedding, and downloading files. If you're a serious video producer who delivers a lot of video files, you'll need to be using Vimeo to manage your workflow. An additional favorite feature is the ability to upload directly from Dropbox, which I use all the time.

It's hard to find flaws- I would say that sharing collections with "team members" has been a little clunky and inconvenient for us, and I haven't yet found an effective solution for sharing a group of private videos at once instead of copying the individual links.

Excellent product. It enabled us to help our organization learn for about 5 years now.

Vimeo gives insights on engagement and tracks valuable data from viewers such as viewer location. We were able to confirm the engagement of our staff based on how much of each video was watched and from what branch location. Replacing video feature without having a URL change of the video has been a huge plus for updating online training materials.

There was a time when the player settings changed the quality of the video based on network speed. I'm not sure if this is ongoing. As admins of a learning management system, we received some complaints about "blurry videos" which was a result of the automatic reduction in the quality. As an admin, I had to customize the embed codes to lock in the higher quality.

Part of our research work is our extension channel, where we include videos about our work. Vimeo pro allows us to upload an excellent amount of data per week, the albums make it easy to organize video lists into subjects, and it's intuitive.

Although the service is of high quality, the cost of Vimeo is still very high!

We are currently using Vimeo to host non downloadable videos however the clunky UI makes uploading anything or adding new content annoying.

Vimeo is fairly inexpensive for storing videos. There is also a lot of added functionality like the ability to stop (or make it very difficult) people from downloading your videos.

For such a large software company Vimeo tends to have lots of UI bugs and a clunky overall interface.

Our company has used Vimeo for years for archiving and social media. We have a very low viewer base on the platform though, and the pricing is high. Also, search results never show our videos at the top, despite the unique title. Overall, an overpriced, and slightly elitist application

Vimeo is a professional, industry standard which stands out leagues above Youtube or hulu or any other streaming service.

-Poor pricing model

I upload the videos and films that I have made to Vimeo. Then use it as a platform to house the videos on my website or to show clients some of my past work. I love the way the compression doesn't mess with quality, and there are no ads or anything getting in the way, which is a problem I ran into with Youtube.

The compression is one that doesn't hurt the quality of the film. You have a safe, more professional place to house your videos to share on your website, or with clients. It is perfect for any professional video maker out there.

The problems I had at the beginning have since been fixed so as of now I have no problems!

One might wonder what the benefit of using Vimeo is over another video hosting platform. Vimeo has the best encoding quality for both video and sound, resulting in the clearest hosted product. This extra quality is very important if you aren't happy with the compression other platforms will use, such as if you're hosting a cinematography or color grading reel and want to show off the best representation of your work.

Popularity and support of the Vimeo platform is not as widespread or robust compared to certain competitors. Processing time for videos can also take a while after upload. There is also a restriction on how much you can upload in total or per week, depending on your subscription plan.

I sell videos online and their on demand feature makes this very easy. Additionally, I create promo videos for my services/products and I like that I can set them to be embedded only on my website. I like the idea that I can have videos without comments or ratings. Additionally, I can set the end of the video to go to a different thumbnail and make that end thumbnail clickable. It's very helpful.

The features are great: custom thumbnails, closed captioning, only embedding on certain sites, different options for when the video is complete, etc.

It's a little hard to find menu options. I think the layout has changed recently, so it's somewhat confusing trying to find options that have moved. Not horrible, just a little inconvenient.

Overall I love Vimeo Pro use for my website portfolio as well as client reviews.

What I like most about Vimeo is that my clients have the ability to download the videos from my account via link when it is approved.

What I like least is that my storage per week changes if i upload the same video again with a minor change via same link.

Vimeo has given my church a wonderful place to host our service videos as well as special video projects. It’s a clean, sleek, and professional environment that doesn’t have the distractions of YouTube. It’s simple to share or embed Vimeo videos, and it works great every time! It just plain works. And their customer support is stellar! I’ve only had to contact them on a couple different occasions in the five years I’ve been using their service, but they were great both times! I would recommend Vimeo to anyone. YouTube is free, but if you have it in the budget, Vimeo is the better option.

I love the simplicity that Vimeo has engineered into the backend of their platform while maintaining vast customization options. Everything is easy to find, easy to learn, and easy to customize. It’s very user-intuitive and you can tell a lot of thought and effort has gone into making it that way.

The search feature on the front end has much to be desired. I’ve never really been able to get the hang of it. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but it doesn’t seem nearly as effective as YouTube’s searching, for example. In the very least, it’s not as user-intuitive.

We host our weekly podcast content as well as our film team content created in-house using Vimeo Pro and love the quality/features they offer us!

Vimeo pro offers a generous weekly upload capacity and some nice features built in to help us organize our films. We like the film community aspect of Vimeo Pro and online interaction that it provides as well as the options it allows us for sharing and embedding our films. VimeoPro also prioritizes playback quality, if possible, over adjusting quality for bandwidth.

The only con I have for VimeoPro is related to it's strength of playback quality -- because of this, we sometimes field complaints from people who view our content from areas where they have little or no access to high bandwidth from their ISP...so video content from Vimeo tends to pause more often to catch up to their download speeds.

I love Vimeo for private video reviews, hosting and sharing but my favorite feature has to be the new Live offering they've added with Livestream.

Not really any cons, but I do prefer Wistia better from the content marketing standpoint. Their player looks better and has some very cool features that Vimeo doesn't. But Vimeo is much more versatile.

Vimeo is my go-to for video hosting. Unlike YouTube, Vimeo lets you replace/update your video while maintaining your view count and comments, which makes it great for things like video reels and corporate video. I also think the video quality on Vimeo greatly surpasses the codec used for YouTube uploads.

The ONE area where YouTube surpasses Vimeo is storage space. While YouTube allows a virtually unlimited amount of uploads, the pricing on Vimeo depends on how much you'd like to upload. I think it is worth it, but some users might not like having to pay for the ability to upload more video.

On January 22nd Vimeo stop playing videos on Apple Tv (2nd and 3rd generation) I am a pro user which I am paying lots of money to use and watch, the support team just said “we are working on it” not 2 hours or 2 days I mean 2 weeks.. not working on Apple Tv platform. I suggest them some solutions by they advise me to delete my account.!

Untill stop working on Apple Tv the product was good.

The pro account is absolutely worth the cost if you do any video marketing. It has become my default hosting platform for nearly 80 video assets. It has transformed my process by allowing me to keep the same url when I update videos and the higher quality playback has made us look great.

Typically not blocked on corporate firewalls, fully customizable embedded player, high quality playback (does not force down sampling), good analytics, and review/feedback system when you are capturing feedback from several people. While these are all great, the most important feature has to be the ability to replace a video with an updated one while keeping the same URL!

Would benefit from better mobile experience (perhaps an app?) or the ability to add tracking codes to urls. The end screen functionality is fantastic, but only works in the embedded player. I wish it would work on the regular player as well.

Was publishing on demand videos and short series. I eventually wanted to use some of the more advanced features not offered in the free usage. It was good to be able to scale up and grow into the features as I needed them, as things grew for me.

I started off using Vimeo on their free level, as I was developing my video series and audience. After about six months I decided I was ready to upgrade to their pay service for the extra features they had. The features are there, the speed is there, the quality is good. I enjoy their robust features that I knew I would eventually grow into needing and using, which over the past few months I have. Plus, Vimeo has a good reputation and its name alone lends a good deal of credibility - which I think is well deserved. Well worth the money. (Their pricing is fair and upfront.)

I found the learning curve somewhat a challenge to find and implement the features thats I needed. I think they assume a bit too much of the end user of how their system works. Some features seem a bit out of place and took some clicking around to find. My focus is on making videos and publishing them, some of the technical back end features were difficult to find. A lot of hunting around to find a specific setting or feature. It's not as straight forward as I thought it would be - but this can be a down side to an otherwise feature-rich and robust software package.

Overall, we are very happy with our Pro Vimeo membership. The features and ability to brand the channel and videos is very helpful

I like that Vimeo seamlessly provides a way for us to not only host our videos but manage them as well.

The search feature is not very easy to use so it is sometimes seems impossible to locate a video by search.

We offer learning courses for people wanting to learn SEO (search engine optimization) or how to make money online and we put those courses (mainly video instruction) into forums or maybe places on our website. If you are not careful, people can pay the first month for your course and then quickly download all of your videos so they can watch them after they cancel your course - and that hurts your business. Vimeo allows us privacy settings where it is virtually impossible for the student to download the private instructional video from the back end of our courses - thus, they are forced to stay in the course longer while paying us a monthly fee to learn the material. YouTube would not allow that to happen - their settings are too loose... and Wistia is way too expensive. Vimeo has been great from the beginning!

Vimeo's privacy settings allow us to keep our videos private and safe from people downloading them in our paid courses - whereas with YouTube - people can steal or easily download your videos. It's cheap and easy to use - very nice!

Very minor... but it took a while to learn how to use the settings to keep our videos secure.

Stellar. Highly recommended. Essential is you need secure hosting for videos

Vimeo is a great video hosting platform for the cost. It has rich features inclusion very good embedding tools and stellar security. It provides good analytics on your video usage. All for a really good price. Every uploaded video is split into multiple versions so your user will have the best option displayed based on their device (why download a 1920x1080 video on a phone?).

The one thing that vimeo doesn't have that YouTube does is auto generating CC.

I capture lots of meetings on video so that others on my team can see what they missed, do transcriptions, find key turns of phrase, and collect clips for client deliverables. We use it religiously (weekly). Vimeo fits into our workflow easily and makes us look great to our clients (because we can keep just their content in just their album).

Now, you can share videos with multiple reviewers who can click and comment as the video plays. All the comments show up in chronological order on the right side. Great for logging, editing, graphic additions, and captions.

All of the 'complaints' I had last year have been remedied with user interface updates. I'm completely happy with this product.

I love the review page. So easy for both internal and external reviews. We use it every day within our team and when sending out to clients. Makes the privacy part easier as well.

I haven't gotten used to the new default homepage yet. Would like to figure out how to customise it to go straight to a list layout of my videos.

So many pros to list here. My favorite features are the reviews page. Giving a private link and allowing clients to make notes at specific times in the video has been hugely helpful. The ability to replace the video while maintaining the same URL is also amazing, and very helpful when managing videos linked to all kinds of sites. All the privacy options makes it easy to manage a huge portfolio. The albums feature makes it easy to organize large video lists into sections. Being able to allow downloads makes this the best platform for working with clients from start to finish. Can't praise Vimeo enough. Vimeo > Youtube

Occasionally, the upload will fail and replacing the video will not work, making it necessary to start over with a fresh link.

What I like best about Vimeo Pro are the strong control / privacy features and the video review features. Being able to control password protection, link expirations and video downloadability add so much relief when sharing and reviewing sensitive video content. The content is so secure and early versions of videos that aren't final yet don't have to be downloaded by people that shouldn't be given access to download them. I've worked in advertising and tech and I'd much rather share early rounds of video content via Vimeo Pro vs. WeTransfer or another video sending / sharing program since I can protect against their ability to download the file and accidentally use it later or confuse it for a final. So, quality control and version control are made easier simply by having the program be protected, filterable and secured. Version control is made even clearer via video review pages where you can compare video versions and detail differences among videos and even add timestamped notes right within these videos to detail these said differences. For working in video production, Vimeo Pro is top notch and really helps streamline, clarify and consolidate videos in development.

This isn't necessarily something I dislike but just a truth to share after videos are final my teams and I have always moved our videos to YouTube and social media vs. hosting them on Vimeo since YouTube is more universally used. My teams have known you can link Vimeo videos to YouTube, etc. and even initiate paid advertising through the Vimeo portal but for videos on YouTube and other channels but that always seemed like too much work / not worth it when you can go handle business with YouTube directly.

There's no other way to go than Vimeo. It's high quality, has a clean & user-friendly design, affordable, gives you great analytics, several great & easy options for hosting your videos on your website, and even allows you to replace the video file if you've made an edit after you've already published. Vimeo Pro has been a huge catalyst in launching my own film business and allows me to distribute and host films easily & beautifully.

There aren't any standout cons for me. The only hardship is that while the value for the annual fee is great, it is a bit costly for a freelancer on a budget.

Vimeo is a great, low-compression digital venue to showcase artistic work that matters.

Vimeo Pro is, in my experience, the lowest compression video streaming service for professional use (other than just sending files directly to clients). Vimeo is a great place to hold reels, demos, and featurettes to showcase your work, as it definitely carries a quality edge over the competition. Videos look less compressed, and resolution/codec support is quite robust.

Vimeo is expensive for the service provided. Yes, Vimeo provides low compression video streaming, which matters when trying to make your best impression with clients or partners, but the price seems high when the chief competitors are free.