Somehow, Vimeo seems a very sympathetic company. I know it’s just a perception, but this news is nice to hear. Perhaps they can pass on this positive vibe over their acqusitions.
I’m using Vimeo as the backend for my video course on how cars work. It’s working out great. They do all the storage, transcoding, subtitle hosting and provide a player. I had to code up a course player to wrap it all up with a playlist but everything else was basically solved from day 1. I even use their ‘Review’ tools to annotate the videos that my editor uploads.<p>It’s a great example of a business in a strong and profitable niche in an industry that is absolutely dominated by YouTube. I’m happy to give them my money.
I was investigating Vimeo's paid plans[0] as a video hosting solution for a startup client. The plans were pretty economical and compelling, and I can see why they're interested in acquiring livestreaming capabilities too.<p>I think this is pretty spot-on:<p>> Vimeo’s core business is focused around selling tools and services to professional and semi-professional video creators<p>Indie-produced + -distributed content is definitely a growing market that's starting to disrupt industries such as education, training, and entertainment. However you feel about Vimeo, consider that they with other companies will enable the production of brand new content that we've never seen before.<p>[0] <a href="https://vimeo.com/upgrade" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/upgrade</a>
Was initially excited at this prospect as I would like an easy to use streaming tool that's not twitch or youtube for smaller personal projects, but at $75/mo. for 5 hours of streaming this is a no go for me. Can't think of a market where that pricing makes sense.
I’ve known livestream since they were called mogulus with a flash app control system. Max and the team were always innovative and passionate about live streaming. Congrats to the team on years of hard work.
I use both and this makes me fairly happy. This might mean Livestream's Procaster will get FIXED. Vimeo is known for simplicity and 'just works.'
wow I had forgotten Livestream even existed still. Used to use it here and there for free live streaming way back in the like justin.tv ustream type days