Vimeo + Pro + Apple TV
Today Vimeo announced the launch of a new service: Vimeo Pro. This new, private service is separate from Vimeo Basic and Plus accounts. First, it is not integrated with the Vimeo community in the same way that many of you may be used to. It’s important to keep in mind that this service is not necessarily for you – it’s not an upgraded Vimeo Plus account. It’s geared towards more commercial/ small businesses with video content they want to get out there without the current Vimeo restrictions. So keep that in mind as you consider what I think is an awesome new service for many.
This is a way for businesses to have all of the upload and embedding features of Vimeo, without drowning the Vimeo community in commercial content. Pro users also get a ton of new features, including a custom website designer for showcasing videos and services, a brandable video player (your logo shows up on embeds!), and 50GB of upload space and 250k embedded plays for one year. Of course all the great standard Vimeo Plus features are also included: Advanced Stats, Unlimited HD uploading, 1080p embedding, priority uploading, and mobile, tablet and TV support.
You can check out a full breakdown of the Vimeo Pro account and its features on Vimeo’s blog.
And on the topic of TV support – today Apple announced an update to Apple TV that, among other things, gives support to Vimeo through its internet function. This is exciting, because it means that Vimeo is now a television distribution outlet. Yes, this has already been done with Youtube – but Youtube is a different beast altogether. Those of you who are paying attention probably know that YouTube is looking to produce a massive amount of content for their channels in the upcoming year.
Vimeo, on the other hand,has already built a reputation for hosting amazing films by amazing filmmakers, and now, those filmmakers have a direct line to the televisions in people’s homes.
Just think, only a decade ago, if you wanted people to see your film work, you had to enter it in a film festival and/or go to a studio for distribution – which didn’t necessarily mean many people would see it, or sell it to a studio or tv station, which could prove difficult.
Now all you have to do is hit "upload" (and hope that people share). These are VERY EXCITING TIMES!!!
Exciting times indeed. The people determine the value of the content.
Autoplay videos in blog posts can be really annoying. I’m cruising through Google Reader when ten posts down from what I’m reading some random video starts playing that I can’t even see. Is anyone else annoyed when that happens?
Vincent Laforet Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 11:02 pm
I agree – and it depends 😉 But yes – it can be VERY annoying
what would be great is the ability to create pay-for content…
Vincent Laforet Reply:
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 am
You, I and many others have forwarded this desire to Vimeo. They tend to listen.
So Vimeo now lets you pay for an already free and less restrictive feature on Youtube (chromless player)… and this is news? I love how Vimeo users sometimes live in the Vimeo cave.
P.S. You can charge for videos on Youtube as well.
I’m not sure this is worth the $$ with Sorenson Squeeze
http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-encoding/
And a Web host that has great video hosting, you save more money on a yearly basis, and you have more options than vimeo’s out of box web designs that look horrid.
Sorry Vimeo, but with the world economy going to shit,
you should have made us a better hosting offer considering we made you what you are today!
Just checked Vimeo out yesterday, made the mistake of signing up 1 yr business account $199, seemed good fast, nice and easy but.
Just realized only 250 clicks on embeded videos 🙁 I used about 50 just testing each page I through up with video on net.
My customer would get thousands of clicks a month on a video, spend millions hosting his video’s surely be in debt and sueing me in no time. SIGH! 2 days work down drain, I am so stupid.
I am going to sleep now. 🙁
@Travis, isn’t it 250k (250 000) clicks?