Video-hosting platform Vimeo’s CEO Anjali Sud will leave the company next month to pursue other opportunities. Sud, a former Amazon executive, who joined the company nine years ago as director of marketing, was at the helm of Vimeo for the past six years. Board member Adam Gross, a former Salesforce and Dropbox executive, will take over as interim CEO, effective Sept. 1, while the company looks for a permanent replacement.
Vimeo has chopped down its workforce by 11% in a new sweep of layoffs, the video hosting platform said Wednesday in a company blog post. This is another layoff round for Vimeo, which cut its employee staff by 6% back in July 2022.
Companies including Pinterest, Etsy and Vimeo are urging lawmakers to reject an anti-piracy proposal that would effectively require web companies to use as-yet-undeveloped filtering tools. The proposal “would inject uncertainty” into online copyright law, while also posing a risk to users’ privacy and their ability to access information, the companies and other opponents say in a letter sent this week to lawmakers. The letter comes in response to the proposed Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022, introduced earlier this month by Sens. Thom Tillis (left) and Patrick Leahy.
Tech companies led by Mozilla are urging the FCC to swiftly reinstate net neutrality rules stripped away under the Trump administration. In a letter to FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Friday, ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo and Wikimedia joined Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, in calling net neutrality “critical for preserving the internet as a free and open medium that promotes innovation and spurs economic growth.”
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At IBC 2019 (Stand B15, Hall 7), Matrox and Vimeo have joined forces to showcase cloud-based, multi-camera video production workflows over public networks. This technology collaboration will feature the Matrox […]
Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud really wants people to know that the online video company is no longer a competitor to YouTube. “Today we do not view YouTube as a competitor. We really think of ourselves as a software-as-a-services company like a Slack, like a Dropbox, like a Zoom,” Sud says.
Vimeo announced today its plan to acquire Livestream, a live video streaming platform that powers over 10 million events a year and many local broadcasters. Following the completion of the acquisition, Livestream’s offerings will be integrated into Vimeo allowing a seamless workflow. Vimeo is also rolling out Vimeo Live, an enterprise streaming service, it’s first in the live market.
Vimeo, which had been gearing up to launch a subscription VOD service, will no longer proceed with the plans. “Vimeo has confirmed that it has decided not to proceed in offering a subscription-based original program service scheduled to begin in ’18,” a spokesperson for the video-streaming service, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, said in a statement.
IAC’s video platform Vimeo, which lets creators sell ad-free content directly to fans, is commissioning its first set of original, exclusive projects, including the Web show The Outs.
NEW YORK (AP) — HBO says it’s going to pot by scoring the Web comedy series “High Maintenance.” The network said Monday it will premiere six new episodes of the […]
Vimeo, the video-sharing web service owned by IAC, will release Tuesday three new episodes of High Maintenance, a Web series about the many customers of a Brooklyn marijuana dealer. The new episodes — each less than 20 minutes long — are $2 apiece, or $8 for a set that includes three more that will be released in January. This is the first time that Vimeo has funded the series directly and represents the company’s first push into original content, following a recent trend among larger digital companies such as Yahoo, Netflix and Amazon.
Vimeo, the hosting site popular with video artists of all stripes and which uses the motto “upload your own work,” will be implementing a system it’s calling Copyright Match, intended to prevent music copyright infringement on the site.
Vimeo, the hosting site popular with video artists of all stripes and which uses the motto “upload your own work,” will be implementing a system it’s calling Copyright Match, intended to prevent music copyright infringement on the site.
Video hosting site Vimeo is offering two new tools to help its video creators monetize their films. TipJar allows fans to donate small cash payments to video makers, while a new pay-to-view service gives creators the ability to charge for access to videos.
