Vimeo

Vimeo terminated my favorite vimeo channel Ryan Dawson because they did not "like their tone" regarding their criticisms of Israel and falsely lumped it with anti-Semitism. They haven't refunded the money I used to buy Dawson's content either.

Vimeo may not be the worst video site, but it's one of the worst because they don't accept gaming videos. The reject them because they think their videos are mostly gaming videos. Guess what. They're not. And what's unfair is that Machinima videos with a storyline of their own are still acceptable. That's about it.

I attended the webinar in part because I wanted to see if they provided anything of benefit. Also, I wanted to receive the 1 hour of "free" CLE credit. Upon completing the session, I did not receive a course number for CLE credit and though I tried to reach out to them by email to seek this information. They did not answer me back. If they are this deceptive at the outset, then I am pretty sure that I do not want to do business with them further.

As a filmmaker I use this over youtube becuase it is a filmmaker venue, not so much for businesses who want traffic and marketing (use Youtube, it is Google's and much better for searches).

And not sure about censorship as I have seen films with all kinds fo messages and stories that I am sure if it were just a hate video or something, it might be taken down. (use youetube for those.)

Vimeo is for artists and storytelling with legitimate films. Not marketing for businesses or hate videos.

I have not had any issues other than some of the features require you to host your videos off of vimeo to work, such as garnering email addresses and such. I just want people to go to my vimeo channel and watch my films. And it works perfectly for that. HD is HD, not youtube fuzziness.

First off, customer support - it sucks with only canned responses. There were so many incompatible upload formats on Vimeo and when it was the right format, the web uploaded often glitched out. It wasted way too much of my time, so I looked into alternatives.

MediaZilla is light years better, especially if you have multiple videos in one project. It's like a Netflix style delivery of video and easy to embed anywhere. I've never had a problem with the uploader and customer support is super responsive. Also the pricing model is way more transparent than Vimeo.

I think vimeo has stand alone as a video sharing platform more focused on cinematographers than on a regular user video platform I think it has greater quality of videos than youtube although is always good to upload your video to both platforms.

Once I complained about collegian whores invading the Vimeo platform and dirty sex comments, I received an email to "upgrade" to pay plans.

I did not, I erased the single personal video of a cow and mountains I uploaded with them and ERASED my account.

I should receive an email confirmation of my account closure.

Nope... 34 minutes later, they sent an email saying that my account was "suspended". What a joke.

Stay away from this shady business. You erase your video, and erase your account, and they do continue to keep your data, which is PLAIN ILLEGAL.

These guys are sharks! They will make all of the promises to make you sign a contract telling you how good thier services are but dont be fooled.

- Live streaming is glitchy.
- Uploading videos takes waaaay too long and is expensive.
- Customer service to YOUR customer base is terrible and takes days to get a response.
- If you have problems they very firmly remind you that you are in contract and they will persue legal action if you attempt to get out of it.

Plus, there are tons of other options coming out all the time now.

They are Scum. STAY AWAY FROM VIMEO OTT.

Vimeo started off by being a good alternative to other sites like Facebook. It was a free or low cost service. Easy to use etc. But like all these sites they haven't quite figured out the copyright thing. All my websites which rely on Vimeo now as the host server went dark for two weeks when three old videos had copyright issues. It's a three strike policy, but curious as we saw other videos that were clearly copyright infringement and NOT taken down. Fine we all make mistakes and we were happy to comply - but instantly they took ALL my videos down. There was no warning, no way to fix the problem. All 500 of my videos went off line. Very hard handed. So all I can say if you are a video professional and you have copyright material anywhere on your site, even if you appeal you may be facing a shutting down of your websites and your business while they process the infraction. For this reason I would recommend everyone stay away to start hosting your own sites again and forget Vimeo, Google, Facebook and Youtube. Everything is wonderful and free with these companies until they want to change or enforce the rules. We are at their mercy... but no more.