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Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
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#162Is there a reason YouTube/Alphabet have not entered into the URL-Locked video embed business? Seems like a simple thing they could easily implement in a few weeks.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
She makes around $25k a month from her videos, so paying $3.1k for hosting doesn't seem like an unusual cost. However, it's obvious that she derives no benefit from being able to control her own branding or whatever value-add that vimeo provides over youtube so putting it on an ad-supported platform like youtube probably just makes more sense for her.
A single provider deciding to charge you 16% of your revenue is kind of unusual.
Consumer electronics.
Make a device for $5, it'll sell on store shelves for $30, you may get $3-$5 of that.
Everyone is super spoiled by the finances behind digital distribution methods.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
She makes around $25k a month from her videos, so paying $3.1k for hosting doesn't seem like an unusual cost. However, it's obvious that she derives no benefit from being able to control her own branding or whatever value-add that vimeo provides over youtube so putting it on an ad-supported platform like youtube probably just makes more sense for her.
A single provider deciding to charge you 16% of your revenue is kind of unusual.
Tell that to Google ads.
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#165Now I have fomo for all those cool indie films, dances, animations etc, that are going to be deleted before I ever see them.
This seems like a job for archive.org. But I don't think even they could deal with the scale of something like Vimeo with only a week's notice. Sad days.
Anyone can upload their content to Archive.org if they want to preserve it for posterity.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to compare to Cloudflare Stream which I consider a honest paid platform: Streaming is $1 per 1000 minutes delivered Storage is $5 per 1000 minutes store per month. 117 videos with 2 hours each and with 150 views each: 117 * 2 * 60 = 14040 minutes stored or $14/month for storage which is $168/year. 117 * 2 * 60 * 150 = 2106000 minutes delivered or $2106. So $3500/year does not seem outrageous.
Put another way - this comes out to $0.12 per view for a 2 hour video (assuming low views per video). Considering the cost of bandwidth, you can't get that much better.
Meh, I could host it in my data center for under $100/mo. Transit is like $0.1/mbps/month.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you find the $25k/mo figure? TFA says that her most popular video has less than a thousand views.
From her patreon. She has 5600 patrons and her only subscription option is $5/mo. Her videos have only 4-digit views, but they are all multiple hours long Vimeo is asking for around $7/hour of video/year.
You actually can give lower amounts than the minimum on Patreon if you go into the setting iirc.
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#168Feels like Vimeo missed an opportunity to be the home of creatives. They had the right brand perception for it, and were there early. A video producer friend persevered hard to continue using it from 2012 to 2019, but out of chronic frustration with its product design, sadly moved to youtube. I got the sense of a general stubborn "we know what's right for you, you don't" attitude in their product design. And it seeme…
Sounds like they tried and found it wasn’t sustainable.
It was surely sustainable their revenue is plus 200mil year and the product haven't changed much over the years.
It's not growing enough for shareholders though. But sustainable is not the right word.
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#169Now I have fomo for all those cool indie films, dances, animations etc, that are going to be deleted before I ever see them.
This is my first thought also. I wish I had all my favorites bookmarked, so I could download them myself.
Re: Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
She makes around $25k a month from her videos, so paying $3.1k for hosting doesn't seem like an unusual cost. However, it's obvious that she derives no benefit from being able to control her own branding or whatever value-add that vimeo provides over youtube so putting it on an ad-supported platform like youtube probably just makes more sense for her.
A single provider deciding to charge you 16% of your revenue is kind of unusual.
More like 1.2% of her revenue.