What is Vimeo for as compared to YouTube or self-hosting video files?

VladVladikoff 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Our business uses Vimeo because we get a discounted rate on acami CDN via their bulk purchasing power. YouTube is free but that comes with a lot of headaches. For example not being able to hide the recommended videos at the end of a video, which annoyed our clients in the past when we did use YouTube. YouTube also needs to be public to be embeddable, which also created issues for us. However this announcement has me terrified and literally scrambling for a backup plan.

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bobbylarrybobby 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Youtube also doesn't let you replace an already-uploaded video while maintaining the URL, which is incredibly painful if you need to edit a posted video for whatever reason.

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donohoe 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Similar boat. Would appreciate hearing of options you end up considering.

	▲	VladVladikoff 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We are probably just going to self host. We already self host several TB of images (proxied by CDNs) we are just going to do the same with our videos. Most of our videos are only watched for a few weeks before they are basically never viewed again. Our plan is currently to use backblaze for the older stuff their b2 storage is pretty affordable. Proxied by another server and a CDN so the popular stuff sits on the CDN and the older stuff is accessible but might take a few moments to bring up. This is acceptable to our business model.

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BizarroLand 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it's a small number of videos, specifically ones that are unlikely to go viral, then a self-hosted or externally paid hosted peertube site might be a good option.

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RyanShook 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Vimeo you manage your brand and presentation. YouTube you have little control over where or how your video is presented. Vimeo also provides VOD for some large brands and media companies.

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fckgw 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments, discoverability, or to deal with things like automated DRM takedowns. Clean, simple, video hosting.

	▲	jen729w 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I built my own course presentation platform (for my own courses, not as a thing I resell), but I wasn't going to host my own videos. I use Vimeo. It's great: I upload to them, embed an iframe, job done. I don't care about maintaining a video player or bandwidth or subtitles or… Literally the week after I launched my thing, they got bought. I have no idea what I'll do if they go to shit.