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.

  • Weekend Project: Bring it back(wards)

    Daniel Hayek  April 24th, 2009

    Hi Vimeo Community,

    This week I want you all to try using reverse filming and editing techniques. You can move the action in reverse sequence during your shooting or choose to reverse the motion in your video editor, it's up to you. So get out there a shoot a scene where your cup of coffee magically refills itself or show your super hero strength by jumping backwards out of a pool with a reversed splash. For an example see this great video by Peika. As always please be safe and use common sense whenever making your videos, we care about you all very much!

    The most creative and original video that utilizes reverse action techniques and is submitted to the The Weekend Project Group by next Thursday at midnight will garner 250MB's of extra upload space and/or 2,500 HD embed for Plus users. Please only submit videos that you have created specifically for this project, we know there's a lot of talent on here but we want everyone to have a fair chance.

    Have fun :)


    EDIT-

    You all submitted some great work, I tip my hat to you all. Seriously this was really fun to watch and I'd consider proposing this project again.

    The winner of this week's project is Intake Films with their video, Reverse Filming (intake films) . They get 250MB's more of upload capacity each week. Congrats!

    Thanks to everyone for their videos, lovely work. Now enjoy a nice relaxing weekend :)

    Comments (48)

  • Imagine Science Film Festival

    Daniel Hayek  April 21st, 2009

    Vimeo has teamed up with the Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) as an official media sponsor. The ISFF highlights original movies with a science or technology theme and/or movies that have scientists, engineers, or mathematicians as the lead characters. Just submit your film, there's no submission fee, to the ISFF Group here on Vimeo. Each week a film will be chosen and featured on the ISFF Video Pick of The Week Channel. Additionally films will be selected on the ISFF Short Film Channel and some of these films will then be chosen to be part of the festival.

    Films that successfully incorporate science into a compelling story while maintaining a credible scientific basis are encouraged. Remember your film can be animated, comedic, mysterious, a techno thriller, get creative! There's a lot talent here on Vimeo that produces excellent work, so why not submit your film for the chance to have it shown before live audiences and win awards!

    For traditional submission guidelines for the ISFF 2009, please visit the submit-your-film page on the ISFF web page.

    Love,

    The Vimeo Science Squad

    Comments (10)

  • New Vimeo Homepage!

    Kevin Sheurs  April 15th, 2009

    Hey everyone!

    We just launched a new logged out homepage for Vimeo! With this version we wanted to be consistent with the logged in experience you're all used to and better explain what we're all about.

    If you want to see it you'll need to log out. We hope you like it, and start sending your friends and family who are interested in Vimeo!

    Comments (67)

  • Vimeo Offline Event: The Single Take

    Blake Whitman  April 13th, 2009

    Howdy all,

    Vimeo Offline is back! (cue rock music)

    The Single Take

    This month's theme: The Single Take
    I'll be presenting one-shot videos that have no editing and rely solely on the power of the moment, the camera, and the operator to create a piece of beauty. Come meet the staff and fellow Vimians and enjoy a night of food, drink, and lovely videos.

    Vimeo Offline: The Single Take
    Wednesday, April 15th at 8pm.
    @ Monkey Town, 58 N. 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY.

    Reservations are a good idea.

    See you there!

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  • Weekend Project: Silent Film

    Andrea Allen  April 10th, 2009

    Last time I suggested a Weekend Project, it was all about making noise. This week, I'm swinging the pendulum to the opposite side and proposing a Silent Film project. And when I say silent, I mean no sound. At all.

    This means you're going to have to make actions, edits, and direction speak for you. You are allowed to use those old-timey slides to show what people are saying and to narrate your story. But remember, silence!

    Check out Silent Film by Benjamin VanderVeen for a perfect example.

    As always, be sure to add your video to the The Weekend Project Group. Next Friday I'll pick a winner and bestow either 1,500 free HD embeds or 200 megs of extra upload space. I'm feeling generous and decided to bump the prizes for this week's project. I don't care what Dan says, you guys deserve it.

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  • Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

    Daniel Hayek  April 3rd, 2009

    Do you have a favorite video on Vimeo that you'd like to try to imitate? Give it a go this weekend by making an homage or a video inspired by another video on Vimeo. Just include a link to the video you are referencing in the video description and add it to the The Weekend Project Group. Also send a message to the owner of the clip you are imitating just letting them know that you're a fan of their video so you decided to make something like it. Please keep this fun and polite, we don't want anyone to insult the work of another Vimeo user so play nice.

    For an example check out Andrea Allen's spoof of Steve R's vacation in Cuba video.

    The best spoof gets you 100 MB's or 1,000 HD embeds (for Plus users)

    You have until next Thursday at midnight, so get cracking!

    Big hugs and high fives,

    The Vimeo Team

    UPDATE: Thanks to everyone's great contributions! You all did great and I'm very happy to say that the tone and style of every video was complimentary and interesting, just the way we like things on Vimeo.

    This week's project winner is Jason Moore with his video And Then I Met Frotography inspired by Jared Wells's own And Then I Met Photography. Congratulations Jason on being this weeks winner, your weekly upload limit has been bumped up.

    Thanks again for everyone's videos.

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  • Better, faster, stronger help is here!

    Daniel Hayek  March 25th, 2009

    Good news everyone, we just launched our new Help page! We've designed it to help you get the answers you need more easily and quickly. Now whenever you have a question, you can search our new robust FAQ. Related topics with answers will be suggested automagically. You can also visit our FAQ page and look through questions pertaining to different sections of our site. Try it out!

    As always, the forums are available if you want to look for current issues and advice from the community. We hope it helps! As always, we welcome your feedback.

    -The Vimeo Ultra Help Squad

    Comments (54)

  • Vimeo T-Shirts are now available!

    Daniel Hayek  March 18th, 2009

    Now you can show your Vimeo love when you're offline. We partnered with our friends at Busted Tees to bring you four stylish t-shirts available in male and female sizes. Also, instead of hiring real models we just used our lovable Vimeo Staff, that's us! To visit the store just click the image below. We hope you like them.

    Love,
    Vimeo

    Comments (84)