Vimeo profile

Paid creator and business plans are central to its model.

Annual sales are not publicly itemised for this business. Paid creator and business plans are central to its model.

The commercial unit is paid video hosting and production capability. Storage, bandwidth and business tools sit behind the subscription, rather than a payout for every view.

Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for approximately $1.38 billion in cash in November 2025.

Paid creator and enterprise workflows are central: storage, collaboration, AI and translation expand the value of hosting the library in one place.

Vimeo AI transcribes, translates, dubs and answers questions about videos. Text-based editing turns a transcript into another way to cut the footage.

Vimeo integrates AI into its own hosting and editing workflow with third-party technology partners.

Vimeo collects account, uploaded-content, usage and technical information and describes analytics, marketing and service-provider processing. Closing an account does not instantly remove every log, tax record or transaction record. Review per-video sharing as well as account settings.

Creators can edit generated suggestions. Vimeo labels AI translation in playback and supports AI-content labelling for uploaded videos.

Choose which tools to use and who can access each video. Video-level sharing settings matter as much as the account-wide defaults.

15/25 points

Vimeo’s hosting and sharing controls let a creator choose an audience; they do not independently validate a video’s claims. For an organisational account, the account owner can control access and content, so the individual user is not always the decision-maker.

15/25 points

Vimeo collects account, uploaded-content, usage and technical information and describes analytics, marketing and service-provider processing. Closing an account does not instantly remove every log, tax record or transaction record. Review per-video sharing as well as account settings.

15/25 points

A hosting platform's production quality does not verify the claims in a video.

20/25 points

Choose which tools to use and who can access each video. Video-level sharing settings matter as much as the account-wide defaults.

Comparison priority: audience permissions, presentation, storage and business video tools. A creator choosing a host is solving a different problem from a viewer choosing entertainment.

A polished upload, a completed edit or a useful viewer response rewards creating and sharing through the same workspace.

Comments, review requests and video-performance updates pull creators back into ongoing projects.

Hosting, editing, captions, translation and sharing live together. Replacing a video without changing its link makes staying put especially convenient.

Client comments, team review and shared links make the workflow collaborative; other people depend on the same video workspace.

An established library of embeds and review links raises the cost of switching. The pressure comes from workflow continuity rather than a public popularity contest.