Vimeo
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| Type | Subsidiary of Connected Ventures |
| Founded | November, 2004 |
| Headquarters | New York City, U.S. |
| Key people | Jakob Lodwick, Founder |
| Owner | Connected Ventures, LLC. |
| Website | vimeo.com |
| Type of site | video sharing |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload) |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2004 |
| Current status | active |
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Vimeo is a video-centric social network site (owned by Connected Ventures) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, long-term video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars.
The main difference between the site and other competing video sharing services such as YouTube is that Vimeo allows only user-created videos, of a "friends and family" nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user can be uploaded. Vimeo has gained a reputation[1] as catering to a high end, artistic crowd because of its higher bitrate, resolution, and relative HD support.
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[edit] Origin of name
The name "Vimeo" was created by co-founder Jakob Lodwick. It is an anagram of "movie" and is also a play on the word "video," inserting the word "me" as a reference to the site's dedication to user-made films exclusively.
[edit] Popularity
Vimeo has seen large growth after the shutdown of Stage6, a portal which also allowed videos to be shared in HD quality.[1] As of May 2008, Vimeo has over 520,000 videos[2] and 410,000 members, with an average of over 4100 new videos uploaded daily.[3]
[edit] Notable content
Vimeo has helped to offload traffic from Improv Everywhere's servers after new pranks are announced, and continues to host most of their videos[2]. It was also the original location of Noah Kalina's "everyday" video[3], which has become one of the most watched viral videos of all time. Comedians Kristen Schaal and Reggie Watts use Vimeo to promote their content.
[edit] Video quality
On October 17, 2007 Vimeo announced support for High Definition playback, becoming the first video sharing site to support consumer HD. Uploaded HD videos are automatically converted into 720p Flash video. Non-HD videos also have significantly higher bitrates than other competing video sharing sites.
[edit] References
- [4]PC World review of the site August 2007
