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.

  • Come to the Disposable Film Festival

    Blake Whitman  January 27th, 2009

    If you happen to find yourself in beautiful San Francisco later this week, then you should definitely check out the Disposable Film Festival events happening from Thursday Jan 29th through Sunday Feb 1st.

    The Disposable Film Festival focuses on many of the incredible short films you see on Vimeo: videos made with powershots, cellphones, point and shoot cameras, etc... and the line up this year looks amazing (trust me, I'm a judge).

    So check out the Disposable Film Fest events and make sure to get some tickets!

    I will be attending the main event on Thursday and also speaking on the panel on Sunday. Hope to see you there!

    Also, we will be having a Vimeo Offline event in SF on Monday... more details/blog post to follow.

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  • What's New with You?

    Daniel Hayek  January 23rd, 2009

    2009 is here. It's a time of hope and renewal. We're all beginning a new year, there's a new U.S. president, and maybe you're starting into a new wall calendar.

    We're curious about what you're up to in the new year that's different. Maybe you're faithfully sticking to a new years resolution, maybe you broke that resolution already, maybe you're working on or planning something, maybe you're an international user who is finally enjoying sweet, sweet, Vimeo Plus!

    It can be anything. You might be on a personal quest to find the elusive Vimeo unicorn...

    Show us, don't tell. In other words, don't just talk into your webcam, give us a look at what you're actually up to in 2009.

    Submit your video to the Weekend Project Group by midnight on Monday, January 26th. The most creative and unique video chosen by the staff will garner a prize of 100 MB more upload space or for Plus members the choice between 1,000 HD embed plays or 100MB extra upload space.

    Share with us on Vimeo. No judgments, just electronic hugs.

    EDIT---

    We have a winner folks! Thanks to everyone for participating with your submissions to this project. Our selection is "Building The Robot" by Jeremy Ruhland.

    Jeremy's brief, but interesting video, shows us that in 2009 there may be a robot uprising and now we'll know who to blame for it.

    Congrats Jeremy! You now have 100MBs extra of weekly upload capacity. Thanks again to everyone for their submissions.

    Much love,

    Vimeo

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  • Vimeo Plus, now available for everyone!

    Blake Whitman  January 14th, 2009

    It is with great pleasure that I can now say this: Vimeo Plus is now available for International users!

    We are EXTREMELY sorry for the delay, and we are making it up to everyone. If you buy Plus anytime between now and February 4th, you will get three months free with your purchase - that means 15 months for the price of 12.



    Other notable additions/upgrades to the membership now include:

    - 5GB of upload space per week (10x what you get with the free account)
    - 5000 free HD embed plays with purchase (up from 1000)
    - The ability to control which domains can embed in HD
    - 25fps/PAL support for HD (up from 24fps)
    - Make your videos private on Vimeo.com while still able to embed them on your site
    - One-button upgrading of your existing videos to the latest high-quality format without using additional upload space

    Thanks for your patience and your support. It has been a hard-fought battle, but we are finally victorious.

    Go get 'em!

    Vimeo.com/plus

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  • Vimeo Offline Event

    Blake Whitman  January 12th, 2009

    If you like awesome videos, awesome people, and awesome food, please join me and some other awesome members of the Vimeo Staff for our awesome monthly series: Vimeo Offline. Awesome!




    Vimeo Offline is a chance to see your favorite Vimeo videos in an offline environment. The events are held at the amazing Monkey Town restaurant/screening room where people can eat, drink, and be merry all while watching Vimeo videos projected on four screens all around them. Its pretty cool.

    So if you live in the area, come on by! If not, don't sweat, I'll be posting a playlist of the videos by the end of the week so everyone else can check them out too!

    Vimeo Offline: Short and Sweet
    This Wednesday, January 14th - 8pm
    @ Monkey Town, 58 N.3rd, Brooklyn, NY.

    Hope to see you there!

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  • Happy Holidays

    Blake Whitman  December 24th, 2008

    Happy [insert your holiday here so we can be as politically correct as possible]!

    On behalf of the staff here at the Vimeo, I would like to sincerely thank each and every one of our amazing users for helping contribute to one of the most creative, supportive, and inspiring communities on the planet. We are now one million strong (and growing) and to put that into perspective, that is basically the population of Swaziland.

    So now that we are the size of a small nation, let us not forget that the nation of Vimeo depends on you! It is you who make it what it is, and it is you who will dictate the future of what Vimeo becomes. Keep creating, keep connecting, keep being yourselves, and we'll see the Vimeo we know and love live for many years to come.

    Happy Holidays everyone.

    MUCH LOVE,

    Vimeo

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  • Photojojo book contest!

    Blake Whitman  December 17th, 2008

    Vimeo is teaming up with our West Coast friends over at Photojojo to host a really sweet contest!

    They are working on a book (published by Random House in Fall 2009) and they need your help!

    Here's where you come in: Photojojo is going to print a stop-motion video in their new book (think flipbook-style with a frame on the edge of each page) and they're looking for the best, most insanely awesome stop-motion video you can muster.

    Visit the Photojojo Contest Channel for the complete contest guidelines and prizes and subscribe to the channel to catch all the great entries that are bound to flood in.

    Make sure to tag your entries with 'Photojojobook' and be sure to follow the guidelines for your best chance to win.

    The contest runs till January 1st, so get your stop-mo-tion!

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  • You, right now.

    Blake Whitman  December 13th, 2008

    Howdy all.

    So, I'm curious. What is everyone doing right now?!

    Tell us in a video!

    Tag it with 'me right now' and then add it to the Me Right Now group.

    And if you aren't doing anything right now, just make something up! That's cool too.

    Hope everyone is having a swell weekend.

    Blake

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  • Get (Facebook) Connected! (Updated)

    Andrew Pile  December 4th, 2008

    You can now link your Facebook and Vimeo accounts together using Facebook Connect! To do it, go to your settings page and click the connect button on the bottom right. Once connected, you can sign into Vimeo using your Facebook username and password, and your likes and uploads will be automatically pushed to your Facebook news feed (you can turn that off on your extending Vimeo settings page).

    Enjoy!

    Update:
    After connecting, go to http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php and click Edit Settings for the Vimeo Connect app. On that pop-up screen...select "Allow Vimeo Connect to publish specific story sizes automatically without prompting." and then select "Short". This will let Vimeo automatically post a Short story, versus a one line story. Short stories include your videos title and a thumbnail image which can be clicked and turned into a Vimeo embed player!

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