Staff Blog

by Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs.
June 3rd, 2009

Thank you to everyone who participated! Awesome job everyone! We learned how to do so many things, like stacking dice, building epic forts, whistling with our fingers, taking pictures of exploding water bombs, and even destroying old hard disks. I hope everyone learned something, but more importantly, had a fun time with this last weekend's project.

The winner for "How-To" is Remyyy, for his creative video, How To Chase Butterflies. Congratulations Remyyy for being this week's Weekend Project winner, you will be receiving 5,000 more HD embeds.

The runner up is MadHat for the video Destroy old hard disks. Great job! You will be receiving 1,000 more HD embeds.

See you all for the next Weekend Project!

by Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs.
May 29th, 2009

This week's Weekend Project is: How-to

Share a fun activity or skill that you have, with everyone. Teach us how to make and fly a kite, bake a dessert, juggle your mom's most precious gems, make the most outrageous paper airplane, build an epic blanket fort, or even how to do your favorite killer dance moves. The more ridiculous, the better.

Pick up whatever recording device you have whether it is your cellphone, video or photo camera, or even webcam and teach us how to be awesome.

Remember, only add videos that you create specifically for this project, no previously created or uploaded video.

Ultra awesome mega-challenge: Make your video less then two minutes in length.

Don't forget to add your video to the Weekend Project Group and most importantly, have fun!

The best How-To video gets you 250MB more upload space or 5,000 HD embeds (for Plus users).

P.S. I'm working for Vimeo in NYC this summer, so we have a lot of really fun projects coming up. Get ready for it.

by Blake Whitman
May 26th, 2009

It's no secret that Vimeo members upload some of the best content on the web. This site is a powerhouse of talent, and all of the credit for that goes to you guys.

Our job is to do as much as we can to give all of that incredible work the exposure that it deserves and give everyone the ability to find it more easily. It's for that reason that we created Vimeo Categories: a new way to discover people, communities, and videos you might not normally see.

Vimeo Categories work differently than similar systems you might have seen on other sites. Categories are populated automatically using your Channels and Groups. If you moderate a Channel or Group there's a new settings tab that will let you choose up to two top-level Categories to be included in. Our algorithm will automatically look at videos you've selected and include them in the Category pool, favoring videos, people, and tags that are most active and representative of that Category.

Now that Vimeo Categories are here, your TV is going to feel lonely because you're going to be spending all your free time browsing through top-notch content on Vimeo. We've been working on Categories for several months now and have already found a boatload of new stuff we never even knew about thanks to the collective editorial consciousness of everyone here. We know you're going to love it, and you can help us by categorizing all your Groups and Channels right now!

PS- The bulk load of Categories was written by Sean who unfortunately couldn't be here for its release because he just had a beautiful baby daughter. If you dig Categories give him a big thank you here!

by Andrea Allen
May 20th, 2009

Hey everyone,

I come to you bearing good news about new Vimeo Forums. We've revamped the forum section of the site to make them easier to navigate and search. We've moved what used to be Known Issues and Bugs to the Help Center. Go there if you have a question about the site or a technical difficulty. The Help Center is by far the best place to go when you need help with the site.

The new Community Forums are now home to all the topics that will get you involved with other Vimeans. We've added a Festivals and Contests forum for spreading the word on upcoming events. There's also a new Wanted section where you can get in touch with people you would like to work with, hire, or work for!

Don't be alarmed if your forum post gets moved by a Staff member from the Community Forums to Help Center and vice versa. It will take some time to adjust to these changes and we'll be gently directing posts to their appropriate locations while everyone gets acclimated.

As always, please let us know what you think. See you in the forums!

Community. Quality. Who's your coach? Vimeo.

by Blake Whitman
May 18th, 2009

I have a confession to make: I love the Disposable Film Festival.

For those of you who are not familiar, the Disposable Film Festival celebrates films made on the lo-fi using point and shoot cameras, webcams, disposable film cameras (yes, they make those) and any other cheap video camera. This medium allows filmmakers to explore new ways of telling stories and experiment with the mobility and accessibility of the hardware itself. We see TONS of these great videos on Vimeo all the time and its why we've partnered with DFF for a second year in a row. Plus, Eric and Carlton and the gang over at DFF are just plain cool.

So... I encourage you all to submit your disposable films to the festival for 2010! They are accepting submissions now till August 31st, so you even have time to make something for the festival if you are feeling inspired.

To submit: upload your video to Vimeo and fill out the submission information here.

To see videos from previous years, check out the DFF Channel.

by Blake Whitman
May 15th, 2009

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by Andrea Allen
May 15th, 2009

We're broadcasting from the office today, May 15.
Watch us as we make the Vimeo!

by Blake Whitman
May 11th, 2009

Hey All,

This month's Vimeo Offline will be hosted by none other than Vimeo's own Wreck & Salvage!



The Wreck & Salvage trio will take you on an exploration of mind and space via the glory of found media. Come bear witness to their frenetic mixmastery. Videos from videos, from computers for computers, of the people, by the people, for the people.

Tuesday, May 12 @ 8pm.
Monkey Town - 58 n.3rd st. Brooklyn, NY

This is going to be a good one folks. Reservations are a good idea.

See you there!