New Features

  • Share on Twitter
    Now you can share your videos on Twitter! Just click the Share icon in a video to launch the Share module.
  • Channel Notifications
    Channel owners now have a new section in their channel settings to optionally receive emails for when someone posts a message to their shoutbox and for when someone subscribes to their channel. Adding moderators to your channel also now has an approval process, where both parties will receive emails when the request happens, and when the request is approved.
  • People Subscribed To Me
    There is now a new page within your My Contacts where you can see what users are subscribed to you and what they are subscribed to (likes, videos, and/or appearances).
  • Featured videos for your group
    Have any videos you want to show off in your group? You can easily add any 3 group videos to feature on your group homepage.
  • Featured videos on your profile page
    Have any videos you want to show off on your profile page? You can easily add any of your 3 public videos to feature on your profile page. Try it now.
  • Removing Video Thumbnails
    Everytime you upload a video, you get 12 thumbnails to choose from. Now, a month from the day you upload your video, we will automatically remove any unused thumbnails. But you will always be able to upload your own.
  • Improved Searching
    We've been waiting for this. The toolbar search is now much more accurate.
  • Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
    Clicking on most login and join links will now trigger a lightbox overlay where you can quickly login or join Vimeo and stay on your current page.
  • Better referrer statistics
    Now we record every page that videos get embeded on, check it out in the stats section to the right of any video page.
  • Share on MySpace
    Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
  • Badge additions
    You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
  • Daily Email Update
    You can now receive a daily email full of what's happening in your Vimeo world. Sign up is located in your notifications settings.
  • Converting time during transcoding
    Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
  • New Hubnut Behavoir
    From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
  • Search Channels
    Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' box in the top navigation bar, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
  • Posting to Flickr
    It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
  • Expanded Tag Browsing
    Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
  • New Avatar Feature
    Clicking any "avatar" aka user portrait will bring up a menu of actions you can take regarding that user. Use this menu to add contacts, subscribe to videos, and send messages to users you see on Vimeo
  • Spam Filters
    We've recently rolled out some great new spam filters that we think will help keep spammers off of Vimeo. Of course its impossible to stop ALL spammers, so if you ever see any send an email to Help@vimeo.com and we'll take care of it.
  • Add Multiple Email Addresses
    Now you can add multiple email addresses to your account and then sign in with any of them using the same password. Just set one as your main address, verify it after we send you an email, and you're all set.

  • RSS feeds fixed!

    Jake Lodwick  January 10th, 2006

    Ok, RSS feeds are working again. Please let me know if you have any trouble!

    Additionally, the date of each clip should be accurate. Previously, there had never been a date.

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  • RSS feeds temporarily disabled

    Jake Lodwick  December 23rd, 2005

    We had to temporarily turn off RSS feeds due to excessive traffic. The site should continue to run as usual, but you won't be able to access any RSS feeds for now.

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  • Introducing special tags

    Jake Lodwick  December 12th, 2005

    Here's something interesting: you can indicate who appears in a clip with a special tag. For example, to indicate that my brother Eric is in a clip, just add the tag user:thebrother. Then, his picture and a link to his page will appear on the sidebar:



    Additionally, a link back to that clip will appear on his home page:



    Replace thebrother with the person's username, and you can do it with anyone - not just my brother.

    Also, you can use another special tag to point to a Flickr photo. Here's how:

    1) Every photo on Flickr has a unique ID number. Find that ID by looking at the URL for that photo, and extracting the long number. For example, the URL for this photo of snow falling is http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakob/71899315. The photo's ID is 71899315.

    2) Tag your clip on Vimeo with flickr:71899315 (replacing that number with the ID of your own photo), and now it will appear on the sidebar whenever someone views that clip!

    As always, feedback is appreciated. Please use the Vimeo forums.

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  • You can flag inappropriate clips!

    Jake Lodwick  November 16th, 2005

    We added a much-needed feature today: you can "flag" clips that you feel don't belong on Vimeo. We all need to work together to keep porn off the site, and now it'll be much easier to let us know when someone uploads some to the site.

    When you're watching an offending video, simply click the "Flag as offensive" link underneath and fill out the brief form, if you'd like. We'll remove offending clips immediately.

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  • Vimeo now has forums - discuss!

    Jake Lodwick  November 2nd, 2005

    We added a simple user forum feature to Vimeo. Please go the the forums page and try it out!

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  • Subscribe to the Vimeo blog via RSS

    Jake Lodwick  November 1st, 2005

    We should have added this feature a while ago, but here it is. The Vimeo Changes & Fixes blog (which you're currently reading) now has an RSS feed.

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  • Make a Vimeo badge for your own site!

    Jake Lodwick  October 25th, 2005

    It feels good to introduce this: Make a Vimeo badge!

    This page gives you some code so you can put your Vimeo clips right in your blog. Now, your friends don't have to be Vimeo users in order to see your clips. MWAH.

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  • Get an SMS when someone comments on your clips!

    Jake Lodwick  September 26th, 2005

    I created a fun feature for myself, and I loved it so much that I made it public. Want to get an SMS on your mobile phone whenever someone comments on one of your clips? Now, you can do it - just fill out these fields at the bottom of your "Edit my info" page (which is linked from your home page):



    It's funny - getting a comment sent right to my cell phone, the moment it happens, really makes me feel connected. Now I'll never be alone!

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