Staff Blog / Introducing... Vimeo Categories!
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!
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62 Comments
Daniel Madaler
Finally a good way to browse.
And where is the video of the baby girl? :)
edit: some pictures of the featured categories are missing... at least "Technology"
Chrizzle
Thanks and super congrats, Sean :)!!
Matt Schwarz Staff
Go forth and rock!
Seán Bray
Oh Vimeo, you and your awesomeness! Thanks Sean, and congratulations :)
Marien MALET
Cool :-)
Karen Abad Plus
Great job you guys. :-)
Zack McTee PRO
congrats on the baby sean.
Remyyy Plus
Congrats to Sean for the baby ! All the best ! And congrats to you all for that baby too ! I'm already digging the category page who looks awesome (Big big up Sox !). (me refreshing the category page ten times, one more, one more)
HannahMai Plus
cool! :)
Andrew Cornett
Love the new feature + the icon rocks
Andrew Wilson Plus
Love the new categories section. It takes Vimeo's professional stance up another notch. The layout and design of the pages themselves are very well done, too. Awesome job, Sean! :D
armandoalves
Great feature. Any way to get RSS feeds on categories ?
Soxiam Staff
we've considered rss and subscription options for categories but decided that's not the direction we want to drive this product for now.
armandoalves
That's understandable. It's already huge step forward the automated categorization, which i'll hope will be used wisely by the community.
Maybe in the future, ultra-niche categories could have RSS. Oh, wait ... we call that groups :)
thanks for the reply.
Andrew Pile Staff
To add to Sox's point, we didn't want to detract from the Channels and Groups in these Categories. If you like what you see, subscribe to them!
Kevin Sheurs Staff
...same with people and tags :)
Blake Whitman Staff
...and goats.
mike ambs Plus
I do love my goat rss-feed :)
Bryce Plus
Nice new feature. Good work team Vimeo.
Frederic Vercammen Plus
now I can still many more videos discover on the best site ever, vimeo.com
Thank you for browsing ...
Eric Buist Plus
very very cool
Daniel Canona
Love the simple, clean UI. Vimeo, you've done it again.
David Price
Good job and congratulations to the new Dad!
Mike Kobal Plus
thats great. thank you! congrats to the new dad.
Mitchell Stafiej Plus
It's like a big bowl of awesome!
chamomile vj therapist vj
i just love Vimeo. don't you just love Vimeo!?
Ian Matthew Welch
Well done guys! I will now have absolutely no life since I will spend most of my time browsing videos in a new, refreshing way. Keep up the great work!
0300TV / OnArchitecture PRO
Interesting... I miss the category: buildings or places.
Keep the good work!
Lee
Great amount of work done here and it shows! I was able to find videos I was looking for instantly! I even saw a few of mine, awesome!
Blake Whitman Staff
awesome!
dalas verdugo Staff
awesome!
Glen K. Richards
awesome!
Efehan Plus
I love the categories, its a discovery attack. Well done!
Blocter
Congrats Sean!!
Is there any way we have influence on this?
Like I'm making a web series -> short doumentary. I'd love to se that in the list as well
Blake Whitman Staff
Create a Channel with your content and categorize it and tag it appropriately.
Nikio
OMGZ, this is too cool! xD
vj_waky
Very very well done! Great tool!
Charlie Wilson Plus
Awesome! I've always loved the content on Vimeo, and it's even better now there's a nice way to discover new stuff. Great job!
Mongovision
Good job!!! It will be better if we can select wich category belongs to every video. In our channel we have comedy videos, but also concerts from our band, but also experimental stuff, but also... it's only a suggestion. Thanks again.
BeatnikTV
Sweet Nice work
mike ambs Plus
Awesome, awesome, awesome job! :) I'm really digging the category page *thumbs up*
kaspars
i just enjoyed catoegories..and yea, i'm sure i am going to enjoy them for quite a while from now on.
thank you boys and girls up there!
Andrew Landry Plus
I like it! Great work!
The AbiolaTV Overflow Channel
Thanks so much. We can't wait to dig in. We're new to Vimeo - still getting used to it, but so far, it's awesome. Thank you, again. And congrats on the baby!
Blake Whitman Staff
Welcome!
archie Plus
i dont see "cars" or "cars releted" section :P
Blake Whitman Staff
That's a good idea, we'll add that as a subcategory under sports.
Phoric
Cool, thanks Vimeo!
And it was neat seeing one of my videos listed under the first category I clicked on. :)
Michael Brodner AKA Bones PRO
All good and fun but where do we find the horror/thriller/scary stuff at?
Blake Whitman Staff
ah, good idea!
ailatanotos
I like this, Congratulations and thanks Vimeo for been so cool team.
Yo creé un grupo de videodance. cómo puedo agregarlo a la categoria?
vimeo.com/groups/all/category:dance
Muchas gracias.
Morris
'oly crap! awesomeness.......gonna head over to digg it now~
Christina King
I'm very happy to be here! *^.^*
With warm regards from Canada! :)
Andrew Wilson Plus
Been browsing categories a bit more. Awesome work, but I'm still a bit sketchy on how one gets their work into a category. Are you saying that a video is selected only from being in channels and groups tagged under a relevant category and tags, and only if the video itself is highly viewed / liked / commented? And this is done automatically by a program?
Blake Whitman Staff
it rates videos in channels and groups highest, then videos that aren't in channels and groups that have more likes and related tags and titles.
rick fiduccia Plus
Great idea these Vimeo Categories
How about one for "beer & donuts"
Ronen V Plus
I don't see a "fucking awesome" category.
Explain
BigCrow (Crow Pictures)
LMAO
Max Bergmann
thanks :)
Trialkings
poeberg-trial.info
greetz
chin long
goodluck
BigCrow (Crow Pictures)
Thats great... but I don't understand 1 thing: if my (or eny) video is NOT in any group or chanel, how it's gonna be categorized?