Staff Blog / Vimeo On Demand: Sell your work, your way

In November, we announced one of the most important evolutions in Vimeo’s history: Creator Services, a suite of features to help creators make more money by making great video. First came Tip Jar, which lets fans give kudos in cash. Then came Movies, the first pay-to-view experience on Vimeo, featuring six full-length films that would never have had a home on Vimeo before.

Now we’re thrilled to announce that Movies were just an appetizer. Introducing the main course: Vimeo On Demand, a totally open platform that enables you to sell your work directly to your audience. If you’re a Vimeo PRO member, you can distribute your work the way you want, with all the power of Vimeo’s HD player, easy-to-use tools, and wildly passionate audience.

Ready for some specifics? Here we go:

90/10 revenue split
You keep 90% of revenue after transaction fees, and we cover all delivery costs. You read that right — 90%.

Your audience can watch anywhere
Your work is available online, as well as on mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs, all in gorgeous HD quality.

Customizable design
You can completely personalize your Vimeo On Demand page to match your work and bring it to life.

Amazing flexibility + control
Sell films, episodes, and more at the price you want, anywhere in the world you want — including on your own website.

We’re creators ourselves, and we know how hard it can be to get your work out there and connect with an audience. Since we founded Vimeo in 2004, we’ve been dreaming of a world where more and more creators can support themselves with their work alone. Today we’re proud to be taking a big step in that direction, and there are many more exciting steps to come.

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365 Comments

Jane Spencer

Jane Spencer Plus

Amazing! Really pleased about this. thank you. J. Spencer

Remyyy

Remyyy Plus

Bravo ! Always a step ahead, it never changes. :)

Joe Simpson

Joe Simpson

I probably won't end up using it myself, but could you make the viewing time "forever" if people want as that'd be pretty cool :)

Matt Schwarz

Matt Schwarz Staff

Hi Joe,

Viewing forever wasn't an option unfortunately as the feature is tied to our PRO membership. Once that expires, the viewing period would as well.

Joe Simpson

Joe Simpson

Ah right, couldn't it be "as long as I'm a pro member"? Then for users be "Viewable until not available for sale"

Matt Schwarz

Matt Schwarz Staff

It's an interesting thought, but for our initial roll-out we'd rather have a hard and fast viewing window versus leaving something open-ended where a user may forget to watch something before it expires :)

Persistent Peril

Persistent Peril Plus

It looks like you can let people 'download after purchase' though, that's similar to a "forever" option. Brilliant news by the way!

Maarten Toner

Maarten Toner PRO

Download option sounds cool, 3 prices one for short term, a year and download! :)
Somewhere in the future thought, it's already very cool Vimeo jumped into this chasm that is indie distribution! Time to re-read all those music licenses!

Relationships901

Relationships901 PRO

This has phenomenal potential to change the game. I'd love to hear more about the ways in which Vimeo will help market the service and its userbase.

To me, the idea that Vimeo will be out there helping create a viewerbase for its customers is potentially one of the chief selling points.

David Dickenson

David Dickenson

I have a client who has 300+ short health care related videos that he was planning on hosting on his website and using credit card processing and paying for cgi form / database e-commerce solution. This service would not only replace that solution but same him tons of money. The Health Center would need a subscription or membership option for payment. Can that be added?

Ray Dente

Ray Dente PRO

The viewer of the ondemand videod does not have to have a vimeo account to view the vod, or do they ?

Raul Miranda

Raul Miranda Plus

This is great, but until i can watch Vimeo on my TV, it wont be used by myself. Why oh why is there still no ps3 app? If there was, id be watching vimeo constantly. I cant watch it in the browser either because of flash issues. The new Youtube app works great, and if vimeo could be available too, i wouldnt watch OTA TV at all anymore! I want you to take my money vimeo...i just dont want to watch films on my laptop or tablet.

Cassandra Tengan

Cassandra Tengan

Is there a way to see who purchased the video, just in case we want to send them a personal thank you or additional info about it?

kenneth arkow

kenneth arkow Plus

Hi Guys: I've created a site that gathers and sells videos that others create. As long as I make sure their rights issues are all correct, can I create a channel on Vimeo on Demand?

Walter Skold

Walter Skold PRO

My main concern is security? Do you encode films so that people who download them cannot make their own DVD's to send to people; or to re-post online to share with the public?

Sasha Syvyi

Sasha Syvyi

Сделайте vimeo на Руском языке Это 100 млн. пользователей
Make vimeo on Russian language it is 100 million. users

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