Staff Blog / Improved Search / One Million Plays!

The search function on Vimeo has always been an area where we knew there could be major improvement. Well I'm glad to say that major improvement has been made. We have pretty much replaced the entire search engine, and it is now much more accurate. It also now supports search functions like + and -, so if you wanted to search for videos of the beach, but you don't want to see any volleyball, you could do: beach -volleyball. You can also search for phrases in quotes, like "best video ever". Cool, right?

You know what else is cool? Yesterday we broke 1,000,000 plays in one day on Vimeo. That's a big milestone for us! At it's peak that's 17 people hitting play every second. This time last year, we peaked at 190k plays in one day. In January this year, we were at just 220k. After a long hibernation, Vimeo has quadrupled in size in pretty much every dimension in less than six months.

Oh, we also set personal bests for videos uploaded, HD videos uploaded, videos encoded, sign ups, logged in users, comments, and likes. On any given day we usually break one of these, to smash them all at once is awesome.

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BobbyG

BobbyG

Awesome!
I mean like Beyond Thunderdome awesome!

..Now if I could just figure out how to download Cherry Coke out of this thing.

BobbyG

BobbyG

That would be funny if we figured out a way to sell advertising on the first comment box of a Vimeo staff blog entry. ..I will write to Coke in Atlanta to see if we can get some change out of our love for this beverage.

Alex Dowding

Alex Dowding

cherry coke? nah, root beer and sasparrila is the way to go for me

[no, im not from the southern states, im a brit]

but advertising? hmm, might spoil the look of the gorgeous site we already have if there are big glaring adverts here and there

charliesteadman

charliesteadman

Mmmmm. Root beer.
One m-m-m-million plays! WOW!
Mmmmm. Root beer.

Michael Benjafield

Michael Benjafield

I just realised that there's no Advertising on Vimeo...
How do they make money?????

Rommel Cantalice

Rommel Cantalice

Let me ask you something. Is Vimeo an independent company or it's owned and/or administrated by Connected Ventures?

dalas verdugo

dalas verdugo Staff

It's an operating business of InterActiveCorp, stock symbol IACI.

Rommel Cantalice

Rommel Cantalice

thanks for yhe answear... InterActiveCorp is huge, i didn't know that Vimeo had something to do with them. But where does Conected Ventures get in? They at least had something to do with Vimeo, right?

Rob Mientjes

Rob Mientjes

Connected Ventures is the umbrella corporation that houses Vimeo and CollegeHumor.com, among others. CV was acquired by IAC.

Also, IANAL LOL WTF?

Rommel Cantalice

Rommel Cantalice

ohh, cool. Thanks. I don't know much about Connected Ventures, but what I know makes me admire them a lot. It's always great to see such young people succeding at bussiness.

Blake Whitman

Blake Whitman Staff

we are no longer part of Connected Ventures as of a few months ago actually.

Ian Lucero

Ian Lucero Plus

whoa, that's news to me.

Who owns it now? Did you all chip in and buy them out? ;)

Also I noticed, the sponsors are now Vimeo Widgets, Channels, Projects, and Groups. How are you guys survivin'?

Paul McClintock

Paul McClintock

I'm happy the advertising is gone ... now it's more like Sesame Street advertising...

Vimeo is brought to us today by the letter H, and the number 3.

3d60

3d60

can we the users put up spurious adfverts for the colour orange and sun light...oh go on

3d60

3d60

The vids we put up are still owned by connected ventures in your terms and conditions...?

dalas verdugo

dalas verdugo Staff

Vimeo was moved to the Consumer Applications and Portals division of IAC, which is more appropriate for us.

We're just waiting on some more ad "stock". I'm not really involved in that side of things, but we're doing fine.

Please read the new Terms and Conditions, which specifically state that you retain ownership of your videos.

Ralph Lindsen

Ralph Lindsen

whoa, congrats! next step: WORLD DOMINATION!!! (of ass kicking video hosts)

Yowda

Yowda

t'es cool Dallas
trop cool

:-)

i'm glad to share this with you every day

mike ambs

mike ambs Plus

It makes me happy to Vimeo doing so great. This is a special place. Keep on kicking ass, Vimeo :)

[ PIXEL VIKING ]

[ PIXEL VIKING ] Plus

I'm a big fan of my busted tees t-shirts - Vimeo and 'friends' keep me warm :D

Looking forward to the day where I have more than 500mb a week...

Alan Duff

Alan Duff

omg no! your gona give me nightmares

Paul McClintock

Paul McClintock

I remember that. Wow.

No matter what you do though, we will ask for more. Just keep that in mind in a couple years when you increase the weekly limit to 30 terabytes.

CTD3

CTD3 Plus

Awesomiest awesomeness.
Thank you Vimeo and congrats on all the
growth.

Remyyy

Remyyy Plus

Awesomer and awesomer, that's the way it is here.

ojo

ojo Plus

YO,
have you (the staff) ever thought that this will happen? Think back to the introduction of 250 megs a week.... Are there any other stats available like qty. of users, average vidos/user avage likes/user avarage visit, qty. of "active" users... something we can be proud of ;)

Andrew Pile

Andrew Pile Staff

We always knew Vimeo was a good idea!

As for stats, we don't like to brag that much except when it's something big.

ojo

ojo Plus

I agree with "good idea"!

Don't thought about bragging, just as an information. And "beeing proud" means to be proud of beeing a part of it.

pfista

pfista Plus

vimeo will dominate youtube soon enough

Rev2010

Rev2010

Hiya. Just wanted to note that the improved search function seems to have made things much worse. To test it I tried searching for my videos and now none of them ever show up. I've tried all the keywords I've always used, the same as the tags I've placed on my vids, and now they can't be found. Just figured I'd give a heads up.

¡ǝnɹʇ

¡ǝnɹʇ

I only joined Vimeo recently, happened upon it by chance. I saw the great quality work on here whilst looking for HG10 videos, and decided to sign up. Some of the work on here is outstanding, and I really appreciate this website for hosting such great files and maintaining their respective qualities. Glad to hear you guys are doing so well, and long may it continue :)

Erlend Sogge Heggen

Erlend Sogge Heggen

It's very reassuring to see all this development going on with Vimeo, and even more so to see that it's quickly paying off! I have no doubts we made an excellent choice picking Vimeo as the "HQ" for our project videos.

Amenon

Amenon

Congrats to all the team. You do a great job with a great idea.

Greg Wallis

Greg Wallis

Wow, this train's rolling, isn't it? Great news, keep on going ;)

walt

walt

yeah, i'm not so sure about the new search engine,

but congratulations anyway.

walt

walt

i have a couple construction paper videos, yet it shows the least liked one first.

is it run by groups and channels or something?

Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn Plus

When I searched construction paper, your videos came up. You can sort through them according to most relevant (which would be the ones with "construction paper" in the title), most liked, newest, oldest, etc. Your videos will come up first if you search their title. I hope that helped a little!

walt

walt

ok thanks, i'm not sure how to type that i'm grateful.

but i am.

Michael Baca

Michael Baca Plus

congratulations. youtube sucks. after i found vimeo i have never been back to youtube.

Michelle Klein-Hass

Michelle Klein-Hass

We need to get behind Vimeo so that people will start associating Vimeo with online videos instead of just Y**T***. I became a convert when they gave Wise Beard Man a home after Y**T*** unceremoniously kicked him off under pressure from the Church (sic) of Scientology. Freedom of Speech yay!!! The quality keeps me here. You make my videos look GOOD. Which says something.

Congocast.org

Congocast.org

congratulations vimeo - I love hosting my videos here - they always look great!

kruzer

kruzer

Man, that's bitchin' news!

Alan Duff

Alan Duff

Always nice to see improvement

Alex Dowding

Alex Dowding

thats what we like to see! always making it better for the user!

great job and well done on the big 6 zeros

3d60

3d60

Bigger is not nescesrairly better..... but your managing to keep grounded...respect to the team, well done vimeians....... it all rests on us innum

David Kovac

David Kovac

I just hope you won't run into problems. Great video service (I mean great in quality, not quantity) somehow manage to fail and shut themselves. I hope Vimeo will not be that case and that we have a bright future ;)

Attila Malarik

Attila Malarik

I'll join the rest and say thank amazing news and thank you!

Seriously though, 1 million. Mind boggling!

Stefan

Stefan

I love Vimeo :)

Bryan

Bryan

it's so fantastic when such a great site actually enjoys the growth it deserves.

Rubber Duck

Rubber Duck

Great news this! I hope Vimeo doesn't get TOO big though. Because, it's nice, as it is. Not too commercial, and no crap on it, as YouTube.

Caroline Martin

Caroline Martin

"Not too commercial," you say? Vimeo is for personal, non-commercial use only, so if you see something, say something. :]

Web Mistress

Web Mistress Plus

This is AWESOME! While I have nothing against sk8ters and enjoy watching them, when I'm in the mood to do so, it can get a bit tiring to search on a subject & end up with skate videos. Thanks for this!

rick fiduccia

rick fiduccia Plus

Vimeo is momentous. The ability to share and learn with HD videos is sensational.

Congratulations on the tremendous numbers!

Now it is time to call Bill Gates and have him add “Vimeo” to the spell checker in MS Word.

Andrew Cornett

Andrew Cornett

thanks for making the user search experience even better!

Jaap Willem

Jaap Willem

Congrats for this Milestone, I'm new to Vimeo but def into it..
Do you know of any integration with other programs to upload into Vimeo? Might be really easy.
Cheers and keep up the good work, now we gonna have to for the 2 million or are you thinking about 10 million??

Julian S.

Julian S. Plus

Awesome! One more reason to love Vimeo even more now ;) Congrats!

tom lew

tom lew

haha way to be vimeo! go community?

Brad Petty

Brad Petty

If views get too high you can remove some of my videos to cut down on the load.......LOL. My son broke my space bar so I'm done for now. Congratulations!

Dykam

Dykam

Woohoo! Very nice.

Mike

Mike

Coincidentally, my play count for each day since new search was introduced has dropped to 0. (Not that it was high before for my mundane vids)

PDX Race Videos

PDX Race Videos

thanks dalas!

-scott (former youtube & revver user)

Simon

Simon

Great to hear. Everyone should use Vimeo instead of all those other crap video sharing sites.
But it probably will be like myspace and virb (the one awful but popular, the other great but not known). Anyway, good job and keep up the great work.

DZN

DZN

Vimeo rocks. you tube sucks!

Simon

Simon

By the way, I'm not very up-to-date, but are there plans of including "playlists"? Why no bigger video site doesn't have that? (Or is there already the possibility to watch 10 videos or so in a row (just select them at the beginning)

Konx-om-Pax

Konx-om-Pax

prob jims radiohead vid that did it!

Microdac

Microdac Plus

Vimeo is awesome! I think it is one of the best video services online. I especially like the people who look at my videos; they are not afraid to be expressive about my controversial videos . Thanks Vimeo.

Brett Sanders

Brett Sanders

I'd love to see the stat in about a month when you delete all Gaming videos.

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