Craig F.

I've been using Vimeo since 2013, both to showcase student projects and my video work. I was a paying Vimeo Plus member for a few years as well. I felt forced to upgrade to Vimeo plus due to their total upload limit of 5gb for free accounts being a constant constraint, and it's nearly impossible to keep an updated portfolio unless you exponentially decrease your file sizes. Vimeo is a good place to build your portfolio of professional client work, but ONLY IF you don't mind paying for Vimeo Plus or Vimeo Business FOREVER. After a few years of Vimeo Plus, my account had 2 school projects removed for DMCA claims, despite educational purposes being fair use of copyrighted materials. Vimeo not only refused to restore the educational video, but offered no real support, telling me I would need to contact the record label for a retraction, which is impossible without legal counsel. Lastly, Vimeo said they would disable my account if I were to get a third DMCA claim. So I set all 14GB of my public videos to private and canceled my Vimeo Plus membership. It's frustrating to continue to pay for a service when they are one step away from disabling your account at any moment... based on unresolvable CLAIMS of copyright infringement. After canceling my membership without renewal, Vimeo deleted my source files, and locked my ability to upload since the account still has 14GB worth of content uploaded, and the limit for non-paid accounts is 5GB. The second you stop paying for Vimeo, they stop caring. So don't build your portfolio on Vimeo unless you don't mind paying them for life. Another reason that contributed to my cancelation and this negative review are their staff picks were always radical left wing political propaganda.