Comments on: YouTube Leads, But No Sign Of Vimeo

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:53:57 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:48:38 +0000

Vimeo’s audience has a very different attitude to the many who use YouTube. I’ts more of a place for family and friends to share video and this actually makes for more personal and creative content. The way the community has been gown has been down to Jakob Lodwick’s effort to make vimeo a “friendship community” rather than a “mob community”, many of the users respect that. So really if you want an intresting story follow what is going to happen to the user base of Vimeo, Jakob was a strong community leader now he has been “let go” they could all call fire down on IAC.

I don’t think this is the greatest article on TechCrunch, prehaps an effort to give a less sensational post on the Lodwick artical you link to, but still pretty poor considering the list. Man it must be hard working as a full time blogger.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:27:00 +0000

I totally agree, Vimeo is definitely not on that list. I would have seen the word “Vimeo” on there had it been there. I sometimes write about stats on my blog, so I feel that I can relate to this post.

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:07:03 +0000

What about other video sharing sites such as mashable.com/video/?

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Tips For Bloggers To Make Money — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:18:22 +0000

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By: Deepak

Deepak — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:53:28 +0000

Allen has a very good point. I would be very interested in seeing a comparison of video sharing sites. I wonder if live streaming sites should be included in that analysis?

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:40 +0000

I sure hope we get a chance to meet sometime and chat - perhaps in your land

I mean Duncan, get a chart of top 10 video sharing sites for normal folk, sites that people upload to - the results will be very different. Naturally ESPN will have more traffic than Vimeo at this point. It’s absolutely not a fair comparison whatsoever.

And how many staff are they bleeding? All I’ve heard of today is Jakob - are there others?

I’d also buy that Viddler is bigger than Vimeo.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:43:37 +0000

Allen
given its trying to be a YouTube competitor is some ways: yes. IAC wants in on video, and it isn’t in the top 10, that on their own standards would make it not a success and they wouldn’t be bleeding staff if all was going well now, would they

By: till

till — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:43:25 +0000

You guys could have given Vimeo some press when they released /real/ HD-support.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:36:31 +0000

Vimeo stank nearly as much as toutub!

By: Gustav

Gustav — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:36:18 +0000

I think Vimeo is more coolness than it is a real contender. Same with Viddler etc, but there is enough traffic to go around and you don’t have to be number 1, 2, 3 etc, to have a profitable and successful site.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:20:13 +0000

Duncan, would you really expect Vimeo, Viddler, etc to be in that list? C’mon.

Vimeo and Viddler are doing something different than those sites and they aren’t in the same category. Because they aren’t in that list, they “clearly aren’t performing” or is there other information you have to back up that statement?

It would be a similar comparison with Edgeio to eBay I think. Not the same category.