Vimeo

Vimeo is an ad-free video hosting and streaming platform for marketing teams and creators, and it is owned by Bending Spoons.

Vimeo is an ad-free video hosting and streaming platform for teams and creators who publish video on their own pages rather than on a social feed. It keeps the upload, the player, the privacy settings and the audience data in one account, so a product page or a help centre can carry video without sending viewers elsewhere. Vimeo joined Bending Spoons, the Milan company that buys and keeps established digital products, in November. The player shows no advertising before, during or after a video, on every plan including the free one. Uploads land in a library with folders, review tools and file transfer, so a cut can collect timestamped comments before anyone publishes it. The player takes custom colours, controls, a logo and a watermark, and adaptive streaming renders each view at the quality the viewer's connection allows, up to 4K. Automatic captions and multilingual subtitles are generated for hosted videos. Privacy covers passwords, unlisted links and domain-level embed restrictions, with folder permissions for a team. Marketing tools add lead capture, calls to action and custom cards inside the player, plus branded galleries and playlists. Analytics report retention second by second, so a team can see where viewers stop. The screen recorder captures a walkthrough straight into the same library, and hosted live events stream through the same player with Q&A, polls, chat, DVR and scheduled simulive. Vimeo fits marketing teams, in-house producers and creators who want video on their own domain under their own branding. Support and product teams use it for help libraries where passwords and domain limits matter. Agencies use the player branding and galleries to deliver work under a client's name. Companies running webinars and hosted live events sit on the higher tier, and enterprises that need SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning and custom permissions are served by a quoted plan. It is bought as one subscription per account, monthly or annually, with a seat count and a storage allowance that rise by tier. The work lands on landing pages, help centres, internal libraries and event pages. Teams embed the player in a CMS, pass viewer data to HubSpot or Salesforce for follow-up, upload from Adobe Premiere Pro at the end of an edit, and share links through Slack, Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Video that has to live on a company's own domain goes here; a social channel still handles the reach.