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- Founder: Jakob Lodwick
- Owned by: ICA/InterActiveCorp
- Operated by: Connected Ventures
- Year Established: November 2004
- Industry: Technology (Video-sharing)
- HQ: New York City
- Owned in part by Barry Diller's IAC
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Vimeo is video-sharing social networking site which supports the embedding, sharing and long-term storage of user-generated content. Users can share their videos publicly or exclusively with family and friends. The site supports a higher bitrate and resolution than competing sites like YouTube. In October 2007, the company announced High Definition playback support.
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The Name "Vimeo"
The word "vimeo" is an anagram of "movie" and is a play on the word "video," inserting the word "me" as a reference to the site's support of user-created content. Unlike YouTube, the site will not support TV shows, music videos or movies created by anyone but users.Key Dates
- November 2004: Founded
- October 17, 2007: Introduced High Definition playback support
- May 2008: Reached over half a million videos and 410,00 members
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Vimeo Background and Information
- Official Site: Vimeo.com | Vimeo Staff Blog
- Crunchbase: Vimeo Profile
- Wikipedia: Vimeo Entry
- Vimeo: Welcome to Vimeo (Time 1:46)
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Vimeo on Amazon
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Vimeo Questions
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Does Vimeo work on Mahalo? 1 AnswerLet see? :)... http://vimeo.com/7260115 Doesn't look like it does. :( I put both the embeded and the link above and neither seem to work... San Francisco's Pe... read more -
Whats the best format to upload videos on Vimeo, for best quality and less disk quota use (5Gb per week)? 1 AnswerI use Mpeg and it works well. By my experience, AVI generates larger files, but don't take my word as an absolute truth. read more -
Other than youtube, what are some good video embedding sites? 3 AnswersI will just name a few: Google; Photobucket; Buzznet You can find a list of top video sites at: List of free video sharing sites read more
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