Staff Blog / Announcing Vimeo PRO, a new account for businesses
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by Andrew Pile
August 1st, 2011Today we are very proud to announce the release of a new service, Vimeo PRO.
Vimeo PRO is a simple and extremely affordable video solution for businesses. We've been hearing from companies for years about how they would love to use Vimeo for commercial purposes (something our current platform prohibits) so we've built a service and added some tools that we think small businesses and organizations will find very useful.
What's new with PRO?
We've introduced some awesome new features!
Portfolios allow PRO members to create unique, stand alone, fully customizable websites, without any Vimeo branding, to promote and showcase their videos and service. Need a website? With Portfolios you can create one in minutes without having to type a line of code. We're launching with several themes to get you started, and there will be many more to come. We even have custom domain support and built-in video SEO!
Video Review Pages give PRO members a way to share unbranded and unlisted video pages with clients or for internal use. We are also allowing anonymous commenting as well as added password protection privacy.
Brandable video player options gives PRO accounts the ability to add their own logo to the player! All embedded videos will show your logo, no matter where they are embedded or shared.
Third-party video player support if you don't like ours ;) We think our player is pretty awesome, but we know you might need something we don't offer. Now you have even more options!
All the best features of Plus are included as well, including Advanced Stats, Unlimited HD uploading, HD embedding (up to 1080p), priority uploading, and great mobile, tablet and TV support.
How is PRO different?
Vimeo PRO lives as a separate service - invisible to the Vimeo.com world - and offers all the same tools and features to publish videos. Since most companies only need the Vimeo technology to upload and publish videos for their businesses, Vimeo PRO accounts do not have access to the Vimeo community by default, meaning PRO accounts' activity and videos will not show up on Vimeo.com, and they do not have the ability to like or comment. We've taken this step to keep commercial content hidden and maintain the current Community Guidelines. From what we've seen, most companies only care about being able to embed their commercial video, so we believe this private system accounts for the huge majority of business use cases.
However, we know there are those that are still going to want to be part of the Vimeo community. For them, we've built a 'Community Pass' system to allow PRO members to interact on Vimeo.com just like a Basic or Plus member. This allows for the individuals and organizations who need the extra features of PRO, but still want to participate on Vimeo.com. That's fine as long as they play by the rules.
In short, if you like the way Vimeo works now, don't worry! Very little will change. If you're a company, you can now enjoy the same great player, compatibility and video quality Vimeo is known for. We've been working on an elegant solution that integrates business for two years and with PRO we think we've found it.
And best of all, PRO is super affordable. PRO accounts get 50GB of upload space, all at once, as well as 250k embedded video plays for $199 per year. This package is literally the lowest possible price we could offer in order to make this account as affordable as possible for the small business community. We understand this model is a change to our current offering compared to Vimeo Plus, but if you compare this package to any other video hosting solution for business, these numbers are a steal. Seriously, check around.
Is PRO an upgrade over Plus?
No! We built PRO specially for business and Plus specifically for people. We're going to continue to improve the Basic and Plus account just as we always have. A huge amount of effort was put into making PRO work within the current Vimeo ecosystem, that means as we grow, everyone benefits.
This launch of PRO is just the beginning. As always, we will continue to monitor the response from our customers and improve the service in coming months, just like we've done with Vimeo Plus. Stay tuned for more awesome!
Interested? Get PRO now.
Love,
Vimeo
Important: In order to incorporate the new PRO service, we have updated our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Please take a moment to review the new Terms-- Most of what was in the old document is still here, but in language that's much more concise and (we hope) easier to understand. Things like your licenses to Vimeo and our Code of Conduct haven't changed in substance. Mainly we shortened it. A lot. We've also lowered the minimum age requirement from 15 to 13 (the rules regarding parental consent still apply) and we reserve the right to disable basic accounts after 6 months of inactivity (previously it was 90 days). An account is 'inactive' when it hasn't been logged into.
P.S. If you are thinking of switching from Plus to PRO, please read this important FAQ entry before you do. We are offering ALL current Plus members the ability to switch to PRO for $139 till August 31st! Again, PRO is quite different from Plus in how it works, so please make sure you are absolutely sure PRO is right for you before you switch.Showing 100 of 514 comments. Want to see the rest?This conversation is missing your voice. Take five seconds to join Vimeo or log in.
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Definitely was considering this until I read that part. I need more upload capacity!!!
However, at the top of this page it says "And best of all, PRO is super affordable. PRO accounts get 50GB of upload space, PER YEAR, all at once, as well as 250k embedded video plays for $199 per year."
Also, if a Plus user already has more than 50GB of videos, what then? The user has already paid the agreed upon price for upload/hosting and these videos, presumably, meet the non-commercial ToS.
As a non-prof, we will not likely be switching to Pro - but I agree with others, more options is a good thing. I look forward to seeing your "big plans" for Pro.
As far as Plus users switching to PRO, the 50GB limit only applies to videos you upload after the switch.
Do videos just stop playing when you hit 250K? I couldn't find that in the FAQs ... again, huge step forward - very excited for this. Congrats!
The possibility to add a custom logo too. but the price a think is too expensive for something we find free on the net. Actually, there's a really good site that offers almost the same for FREE! It's called vimeo! hehe
The organisation I work for is a Multi-National, and I can see huge benefits to using this service. There are several avenues that can be explored, as well as those which are yet to be explored that would benefit Us. I would love the opportunity to discuss, as well as explore, potential uses of your new service?
Would it be possible to enter into some official communication to explore the potential at a corporate level?
We are a start up business, so obviously a little hesitant considering the upgrade fees.
Ideally we would be able to enjoy a short trial on the new pro account in order to test out the new features.
Is this something that would be possible for vimeo plus users?
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We're offering PRO to all Plus users for $139 till August 31st!
I need to be able to upload at least 4 sermons a month at around 35 minutes per sermon. How about a 500 gig option???
I am afraid after "checking around" as you suggested, that sermon audio.com still has vimeoPRO beat by a mile with unlimited archiving of all video as long as I am a member.
I gotta say I was really hoping this would have worked out.
"Because Vimeo supports the creative arts, small scale production companies, non-profits, and artists may show or promote their works."
A church is a nonprofit entity.
We are very committed to keeping the community exactly as it is: awesome.
However, plays are only counted against the limit when played off-site. Anything played on Vimeo.com doesn't count against the limit.
Check out other video services for businesses, you'll find it's one of the most affordable solutions out there.
Our research showed that the play and storage limits will be more than enough for the vast majority of biz users, and for the price it's incredibly competitive. If you want more plays, you can always buy more.
I'll consider going Pro soon..
Good question! Vimeo PRO videos do work on Roku.
vimeo.com/help/faq#everywhere
I'm confused about one thing. If I have a 50 minute video, my account will allow 250,000 HD views over the course of a year for $199?
there should be a concrete standard or you should eat the difference
But fairplay would be limiting used bandwidth per year, as all website hosting providers do. Vimeo will have exact payment / bandwith usage (at last Vimeo for shure pay to someone per bandwidth use).
In the case if one would like to have autoplay video on their website (some product add). Most of people will leave entry page after few seconds, so a little bandwith will be used. 250K will soon run out. Company with less than 250k visitors/y may find this service expensive. Succesfull companies if will nned to pay several $1000's/y; they will serch for other service soon, or hire their own server (they're realy cheap).
But I understand: Vimeo is business after all. Current sistem does respond to some market needs, but it is mostly Vimeo's honey-pot for collecting big money; probably for covering Vimeo's free communiti which consumes storage space and bandwidth endlessly. It's for some narrow segmented market; For SMB is too expensive and restricting, for larger needs PRO's linear costing become way to expensive. It's for beginners, because it's easy, not so expensive and fits for a yer or two.
Consider that 50GB is adding just 1GB per week, which is not much (a few short videos). Next year $400 if needed next 50GB. Than $600, $800...
it is really need to be considered good if PRO is OK for someone. It have evesome features, its great, but. Every coin have two sides.
Object: Vimeo PRO vs Vimeo Plus
I would love to see a comparative table between PRO and PLUS.
- PRO offers detailled stats how detailled than PLUS Advanced statistics
- PRO lives as a separate service. With PLUS I could keep content secret and allow access directly with a Password how different is it compare to PRO
- PRO and PLUS guarantees not displaying ads on myvideo, right ?
Thank you.
The primary difference is PRO is for businesses. If you are a business and want to upload content that doesn't comply with the Community Guidelines (vimeo.com/guidelines), you have to use PRO.
As far as the questions you had:
- PRO and Plus Advanced stats are the same.
- PRO and Plus privacy features are the same for PRO users with the Community Pass enabled. By default, all PRO videos are private. Both have password privacy.
- PRO users have no ads displayed on any of their pages. Plus users never SEE ads. So there is a difference there. We never show in-video ads for ANY type of user (including basic)!
Is it no different for PRO? I need to be able to use several passwords on a video, so I can cancel access to those who shouldn't have permanent access to the video, and retain a password for those who can continue to access the video.
Merely changing a password blocks access to people for whom I don't want to block accesss.
Plus has unlimited plays and 5GB/week. However, it's for personal use only. You can learn more here: vimeo.com/plus
Thanks!
Really?
So strange.
A 55 minute video, at your HD bitrate of 2.5 mbps, is a 1 GB file. 250, 000 views is 250 TB of data delivery. The average CDN, Limelight, Akamai, Amazon would charge their customers $12,500 for that amount of bandwidth.
How does this work? Sounds like a gimmick to me.
But yes like Blake said above, if you're absolutely blowing the doors off on usage we reserve the right to reach out to you and work on a plan that works for both of us. Based on 5 years of experience, we think this will be a very rare occurrence. We're not looking to scam anyone or turn the lights off without warning. I would hope anyone who's worked with the support staff in the past would know that's not what we're about.
Does the player support VAST 2.0/VPAID? any Ad Server/Ad networks?
As far as ad networks, no we don't support any in our player. However, we do support direct file access for PRO videos so you could use pretty much any 3rd party player player.