Staff Blog

After careful consideration, Citysearch has named the Texas Gentleman the winner of Love at First Bite. For his winning video, the Gentleman receives a $1000 gift card from American Express and some serious street cred.

Check out the Love at First Bite contest page to see the winning entry, and browse some of the runners up!

Why? Because we've managed to snag ourselves a Webware 100 award. The staff and users of Vimeo have worked together to design and breathe life into this website, and thanks to your votes, we have been given the recognition we think this community deserves.

The staff will keep working to refine and improve Vimeo, and I know you guys will continue to fill Vimeo with amazing videos and friendly people.

Next year, we're going for a Nobel Prize!

As dalas mentioned earlier this month, Vimeo is getting bigger everyday! That means more than just our friends and family use it now. To help us decide what to work on next we'd like to learn more about who you guys are and how you use Vimeo. So, we made a survey:

If you have two minutes, please let us know what you think. It's hosted on a separate site so all answers are anonymous.

We have been witnessing extraordinary growth in the recent months. For example, in March we had over 70,000 uploads (9,200 of those were HD) and over two million unique visitors to the website.

We'd like to extend a welcome to all of our new users. Vimeo thrives on community feedback, so remember to let your voice be heard, either in our Forums or in a direct email to your Community Directors, dalas and Blake.

Vimeo is a special community among video sharing websites. To help us keep unoriginal material off the site, use the Flag link on the page where you watch a video. To help us keep the atmosphere pleasant, be respectful and polite with your comments, even when you might disagree with another member.

If we work together, we can keep Vimeo awesome!

Yes, it is April Fools day.

No, the site isn't redirecting you to BoobTube or anything.

But... we do have a little surprise for those of you with keen eyes and Sherlock-like wits.

We, the Staff, collectively challenge you all to a treasure hunt of sorts. Somewhere in the dungeons of Vimeo, perhaps where you least expect it, perhaps closer than you could ever imagine, lies a quirky little April Fools tweak to the site.

We challenge you.... no, we double-dog dare you to find it.

The first to do so, will win 500mb extra storage a week. Those who do not, will be banned from Vimeo FOREVER!

Hey guys,

We made a Facebook app! It's been a good time coming, but it's finally done. And we're pretty proud of how it turned out.



The main benefit to you is adding a Vimeo box on your Facebook profile to showcase up to date streams of videos you upload, like, and appear in. This allows your Facebook friends to see the videos you put on Vimeo.

The other piece of the app, the Vimeo canvas page, serves as an entry level version of Vimeo for new fans of Vimeo. They can start commenting, liking videos, and uploading all from Facebook.

The app was developed by Kevin and myself, with support from Sox, Blake, and Andrew!

Hopefully we'll get your videos out to as many people as you want seeing them, and adopt some new friends to the Vimeo community.

You can add the app here.

Thanks!

UPDATE: If you run into a problem where Facebook prompts you to login repeatedly, try going here. We're aware of this problem, and will fix it soon.

Are you ever sitting there on your pony, and/or in your hot tub just wondering what crazy new features we're working on for Vimeo?

Well, now you can find out. Check out the Making the Vimeo page for a list of all the major features we're currently working on. You can check out sneak peak videos about the projects, photos of the design and development, and even give feedback on the features right there on the page. We'll be keeping this pretty fresh so make sure to come back every once in a while to see whats in the oven.


love,

Vimeo (and Toyota!)


(We will link to this page in the 'Feature Requests' forum for now, and the new 'about us' page that we're going to launch soon too)

In the past, videos over 848 pixels wide went through the HD conversion process. We have decided to raise this requirement to 1280 x 720 pixels, which was our intent from the beginning. I expect there to be some backlash over this, but we just feel that upsampling videos to "cheat" HD is not worth the extra space and conversion time.

On the bright side, now you have a reason to buy an HD camera! Also, we're testing out 30 fps HD conversion at the moment, which is good news for those of you uploading 30 fps HD videos.