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Vimeo and You

Many of us are familiar with YouTube. After being bought by Google, it has become synonymous with online video viewing and sharing. Unfortunately, many people are also not familiar with alternatives to YouTube.com

Vimeo is a website which hosts high quality videos and enables users to view, post, share, and provide commentary on them. The word is an anagram of ‘movie’. It also combines the words ‘video’ and ‘me’.

Starting in 2004, the site does not host advertisements. Users, however, are limited to different data amounts depending on a pricing plan. Base users with free account can upload 500MB of video per week. A Vimeo Plus account can upload 5GB/week for a maximum of 250GB per year. A Pro account allows 20GB/week and a maximum of 1TB per year over 3 team members. A Business account has no weekly limits, 5TB of yearly data over 10 team members. Vimeo has also begun a live streaming service for $75 a year for 7TB of storage and unlimited weekly streaming.

The site is not available in China, India, or Indonesia.

I took the time to make a free Vimeo account and spend some time navigating it. I even uploaded a video of my family’s vacation spot (Unfortunately, the beaches are underwater). The site itself is visually appealing. Unlike YouTube, the home page does not throw content in your face. It encourages you to make an account and shows off some tips on how to utilize their tools correctly.

Due to the site’s limitations on uploads and pricing plans, the videos posted seem to have more intent; they don’t come across as spam. Furthermore, many users seem to use the site to avoid YouTube guideline and policy changes. While Vimeo is not a cesspool of undesirable content, the content seems more authentic and put together.

I will use this site to discover different opinions, sights, and information regarding topics I am interested in. For example, I have discovered several videos of professionals repairing and building instruments. Vimeo seems to shine at making information seem more professional. There is something pedestrian about a YouTube video that makes it seem amateur.

Vimeo’s target audience seems to be people who enjoy the value of high quality videos in a more professional environment. It appears that businesses and organizations can make more of a professional impact with their videos by hosting them on Vimeo. The layout is much cleaner (than YouTube) and a lack of ‘fluff’ videos and advertisements make the entire site seem geared towards someone who knows what they want. The requirement to pay for the service (at the user’s discretion) not only ensures serious posters, but makes the site seem more luxurious than other video sharing sites.

Remember all, there’s more out there than YouTube. Vimeo has many videos which can provide the information you’re looking for without any distractions. Viewing videos is free, so sit and spell and get lost in your feed.

-AJKnox

And All Eyes Fell On The Last Page

This is AJKnox from The Last Page.

The Last Page is a creative effort. It is a collective of individuals that produce music, art, and other content. While the name was coined in the summer of 2017, the members have been working together for a decade.

This blog will be a place where I can post my experiences and thoughts in reference to The Last Page, current events, and the world around me. Feel to free to read, comment, and learn with me as I navigate through my life.

There will be more to come. This is just the beginning.

-AJKnox