Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.
I have seen a few smaller ones pop up too (admittedly not open source) like Nebula. I could see the appeal of a professional hosting service for creators
Floatplane too i guess.
Patreon seems like the most likely competitor. I think some content is now hosted directly there.
That will simply never happen, YouTube I think is a two digit percentage of global Internet traffic.
I doubt Vimeo was putting up numbers that actually competed, either, but it was there as an alternative.
Video sharing is not a technically difficult problem in 2026. It really is just about making the money work.
Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?
Edit: yes it is
“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."
Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout
that might age poorly
Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem. I don’t think they will loose much sleep over this.
True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.
Not a good news both for users and creators.
Price hikes coming… As usual with this company.
Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.
Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website for users in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed by its owners.
Hyaenas doing hyaena things.
:(
Does Vimeo own their own their own infrastructure, or just lease streaming storage from AWS/Google/Whomever?
If the former, it could be a good takeover target.
Your logic is sound, but Bending Spoon is not know to care about value. If Vimeo owns any infrastructure, they’ll sell at it at ebay.
