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INDEXHas Vimeos policy shift affected you?
2 years ago - Vasco de Sousa
Vimeo CEO told shareholders last year that, “Today we are a technology platform, not a viewing destination. We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
Apparently, some popular channels suddenly got bills in the thousands. They now focus more on corporate clients.
I found this when I was trying to look for ways to renew my account, to reset it to my current location. (I brexited to Belgium and then Romania, so I do not think it practical for me to pay in pounds anymore. Maybe euros, ron, or even dollars might make more sense at this stage).
I was thinking of setting up a page like film festivals do for my movies, where people can subscribe and see the films of my new film production company (and any other films we might end up distributing).
I know Vimeo does that for the Transilvania Film Festival and Yippee TV, so I know it is possible to set up such a page, but how much should I expect to pay for that kind of thing?
Is Vimeo still a good resource for indie filmmakers, or has it shifted to bigger players now?
Is there a Vimeo alternative to look into?
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2 years ago - Vasco de Sousa
I forgot to add the link to the policy changes. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase
2 years ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
Agreed. Gone from a fabulous site for indie filmmakers to a cr*p corporate dinosaur.
Need to shift the film I'm submitting through Film Freeway to another platform.
"Is there a Vimeo alternative to look into?"
2 years ago - Richard Anthony Dunford
You can always host it on film freeway directly
2 years ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
That is great news!
I've been on FF for years but never realized this service was available.
Many, many thanks.
2 years ago - Julia Campanelli
Does FF allow you to set up a paywall?
2 years ago - Steve Nethercott-Cable
VIMEO has become just another nasty corporate money grabbing Google-owned entity. Just had a really stoopid run in with them over a music track in my video which I have permission/paid to use... two locations for same video - 'appealed' and won - then got exact same copyright flagging from them on another location of same video - even tho won appeal. Apealed AGAIN and won. Ridiculous waste of time. Expensive platform too. They can F orf... closing my account soon.
2 years ago - Richard Anthony Dunford
I'd not paid much attention to VIMEO recently but I did also get a notice from them flagging the use of copyright music which I thought was strange considering we'd hired a composer to create our score. Appealed and won.
I then found the song we'd supposedly used without permission on sound cloud and it sounded nothing like ours.
2 years ago - Lucy Nordberg
Interesting, just had exactly the same thing - an original score on my trailer by an established composer was flagged up as something completely different. It was restored on appeal but frustrating to go through the process. I wonder if they've let loose some kind of automatic programme on their site that's going though all the music, and it's making mistakes.
2 years ago - Edward Terry
I had a similar issue over on YouTube. The legal eagles use third-party license analysis AI bots and I have had a few videos flagged for music content despite having a license (or even that the music is on a free-to-use license). All incidents were appealed successfully, but the AI tools don't join the dots between your license and your content explicitly which means we get the joy of appealing something we shouldn't have to appeal. I think we need some kind of metadata to embed the licenses into the video files so the AI picks them up. Is that a thing?
2 years ago - Julia Campanelli
Other distribution options for short films distribution, in a nutshell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxfh5CtUSI4