Artistic, Engaged Community – Vimeo is a video sharing platform with a focus on the artistic, filmmaking and music communities, so the audience is more engaged and creators receive friendlier, which, in turn, creates stronger relationships with users.
Easy Uploading and High Quality - Uploading videos is convenient high quality. Members have the option of upgrading to paid accounts for increase quality and use less bandwidth.
You can password protect your videos.
Lower traffic - Because it is a smaller community, you will get fewer views of your work.
Paid access – A basic membership is free, but there are fees for increased security, stats, support and customization.
Commercial restrictions – Must have a paid account to upload commercial videos.
Upload restrictions – Even the Pro account limits members to a maximum of 50 GB of uploads per year, at a maximum of 5 GB each.
How might this network be beneficial to libraries?
Certainly, Vimeo could be used to share all sorts of videos – informational, how-to, training, story times, programming, even board meetings. However, because of its focus on the artistic, filmmaking and music communities, this could be a great platform to us for maker programming – beginning filmmaking, music lab, and other artistic pursuits.