If you have a good community, they might wanna support you through things like Patreon or BuyMeACoffee.

If you're getting enough views, you might be able to do sponsorships. It's good to have a contact email tied to your YT just in case places wanna reach out to you. I've also heard that some creators reach out to companies themselves, but don't know much about that (not something I'd ever wanna do myself)

You getting views and here i am.......

Thanks for suggestions this will help

If you get enough viewers you might be able to set up sponsored videos

The amount of features you get in Vimeo vs YT is night and day better for corporate work.

1. Review page is amazing. Leave notes anywhere on the video, and you get a rough timestamp where and physically where the note pertains on the frame, eg lower thirds should go here and say xyz

2. Replacing videos is something we do pretty much every day. Workflow is Internal Review using the review tools, and then we replace with V1.

2.5) If client uses your Vimeo link, you can customize the player to match their brand colors, and of course, if something changes in the video and replace it, it dynamically updates it.

3. No ads is a huge bonus.

4. We have another client where they do everything in Vimeo, and we are admins on their page via our login. It allows us to upload and manage videos on their page without us leaving our page (and, when we leave or respond to reviews, they see it's us!)

There's probably a dozen more reasons but this is just coming from an in house post production dude who uploads a dozen files a week

We use Vimeo for the review feature. Send a link to the client and they can put notes all over it with timecode. I can export the notes and pass them on to the editor. Its a paid account feature but its worth it for us.

1 Better quality

2 Not getting flagged and warning over music I PAID FOR. ( yeah, i have 2 strikes on my youtube account over music used that I PAID FOR )

You date YouTube in college, you marry Vimeo

1. Mainly, It just looks/feels more professional to receive a Vimeo link. If a videographer sent me a Youtube link to review I would assume they are an amateur. This alone is worth paying per month.
2. You can replace the video with new versions and keep the same link.
3. Better compression (someone else mentioned)
4. Client can download the file straight from Vimeo, in any format they want (including original file.
5. No ads (someone else mentioned)

I think its weird that you wouldn't want to allow the client you are working for to have input on the thing they are paying you to make. For my clients it isn't an option, they are going to give feedback, as is their right to do, anything that makes that process easier is a win for me.

So you don’t let your clients review their video and give notes??

We’re creating ads for local clients and way more than covering the monthly subscription fees. We just signed another one for $4,250 and that $250 is them paying for another month. We’re just making them a couple ad creatives. I’ve been teaching my students how to market their online marketing services to offline businesses for years. People keep sleeping on IRL (In Real Life) businesses but they’re a goldmine for us. No dealing with affiliate marketing which if that’s ones thing then cool. No dealing with trying to monetize YouTube, chase viral trends, etc etc. We just show up, tell and sell. Even before Veo we were making money with AI Ad Creatives. Now with VEO 3 we’re practically cleaning up. Our average months right now are $12k to $15k tapping just 3 to 5 clients. So we don’t have to sell a lot or service a lot of them. We have some on monthly recurring payments for other services so this works! It’s all in your positioning.

Hope that helps! 🙏🏽

I'm using it to pump lots of content for a meme coin I'm apart of. Actually made some good money with the content I'm able to create

YouTube shorts man. They don’t make as much as long form videos, but you can positively make more than 250

Just offhand and I might be completely wrong on this but if you buy the AI Pro subscription and then buy extra credits you can actually get more credits for less than the Ultra subscription. I know the Ultra subscription comes with a YouTube Pro subscription and possibly some other things too but it's maybe something for certain people to look at?

This! I am following because I want to know this as well

As far as i can tell Vimeo has always done this, they just changed the threshold. It is not intended to be a YouTube competitor for viral videos and moneymaking. If your video gets too many views, they tell you to use a different host or pay them.

Vimeo has much higher quality videos and audio and is meant for things like student projects, not a platform for someone to make money off of or to go viral on.

You can't have no upsides and charge for it. Why would anyone use vimeo? If the buisness isn't viable cease doing it lmao.

Vimeo wasn't that great to begin with and were never even in the same league as Youtube. They had a little niche that most people didn't care about.

It's honestly so easy to self host videos with public cloud these days, it doesn't make sense to use something other than Youtube for onesey twosey things.

Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform

No joke, I’ve literally never even heard of Vimeo until I saw this meme.

Ya, and that money should come from ad revenue. If they force their users to pay, they are shifting the costs onto the people who make them money. Then they leave. Then they make no money. Use your own money to fund your own growth. Ad reve ue should cover it if there is traffic.

The first parent who buys it is just going to upload the file to their Facebook or to YouTube to send to Grandma and then everyone else will be able to see it/won’t pay

DVD is dead, thumbdrive should work for them.

TBH I would do the DVDs. Parents don't want to watch the play as much as the want a physical momento that they can tuck in the pages of a photo album.

Grandparents are the target audience for these things - and they still want DVDs.

Biggest thing is what’s a good workflow for you?

DVD? Or is that a pain?

Vimeo is a good player, but you could also just do a pro Dropbox (?) account and have parents download.

I use Vimeo at work. I think they have transitioned to serving the business community and not creators, which is where I think your issues stem from.

-The interface is clunky, I'll give you that

-I've NEVER had anyone complain that you can't watch a video without an account. You probably have your privacy settings set up incorrectly.

-For search, we have over 1,000 videos and 99% of the time I'm only trying to search for one of our videos so its great to have it default to searching our videos. If I'm looking to watch other peoples content I go to Youtube.

-I don't have problems with saving preferences or updating thumbnails. Those always work for me.

-Customer service gets back to me in a timely manner.

-Its definitely not a scam. We get fine value for what we pay. It works perfectly well as a professional place to share videos with clients for review.

do the people at vimeo not realize that their userbase is crying out for things to change? it is so user unfriendly now, but it used to be amazing for short films and showcasing portfolio work. i dont use it at all anymore

AGREED! Every time they offer me a survey, I say: "Stop changing the bloody interface".

Vimeo is used by professionals. Professionals need to be productive, not wasting time finding ever changing menus and functions. Why is there a new "Manage" button. One more button to press. Ugh

Vimeo needs a competitor

Vimeo is a pretty terrible experience for discovering videos… I used to love watching short films/documentaries/commercials on it but I can’t stand to use it now. Like you mentioned, the search function drives me nuts because not only does it just search your videos now, but when you select “search all of vimeo” the results are often terrible. You can literally search a video by its exact title and it won’t come up sometimes.

Whenever someone posts something really exciting that I want to watch on Vimeo, it doesn't load.

They posted the following a few days ago: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/new-vimeo-plans

Still on Plus here, staying there for now.

I was actually thinking to buy 1 month ago. They are changed all plans. New plans are really sucks and so much expensive. It's limit you with 10 or 20 videos per month. WTFFF?
any suggestion for alternatives?

I have a "PRO" plan and very satisfied with it. Fortunately I can auto-renew and keep it. A big thanks to "vengerslovechild" for the link of the vimeo staff post explaining all that.

To Solve the issue partly. I had to recreate a 2D, 4k (4096 x 2048) Sequence and re upload it. Here is that video of the Little Forest Festival. At least one gets the feeling of full VR now.

https://vimeo.com/676720427

I am waiting on a reply from the Vimeo CEO to see if this can be corrected.