Custom Arrange Video

Hi!
first of all, as usual, thank you for this great service! It's awesome.

I've been through some discussions concerning the topic "arrange video". I understand the importance to keep a timestamp of the upload, but I don't see why that should be necessarily the criteria used to display the My Video page when people come to visit.

My website is designed in order to show posts (works) in chronological order. I decided thanks to your great service to host my videos on Vimeo. When the video ends people might click on the link and go to my Vimeo profile. There, they will see a different order of the videos, and they will start exploring with a criteria which is not the one I wish.

Since Vimeo is also a tool for communication I don't see why it shoudn't be customizable allowing the user to organize (in this case arrange videos) the way they want.

To put it else way.. why should the upload order be public and the first option? Why the upload date and not the original date of the movie? Why people who take a look to my videos would see if a 5 years old video has been uploaded yesterday, just after a video done two months ago?

Maybe the page My Video should be private, allowing other visitors just to visit My Albums where users can display and arrange video as they wish in order to “communicate" properly.

Or I could rename the videos and show them in alphabetical order.. yet it's not possible to set a different criteria from "newest" for people first visit on My Video page. And again.. newest doesn't show newest movies but newest uploads ;)

Thank you!
Have a good day.
Giorgio

Hi soxiam, I see.. yet the problem persists. If a random viewer comes to My Video, following the link after the vimeo streaming on my website, he'll firstly found video which are less important for me to show him then others that I uploaded previously.. matter of findability..
I hope Vimeo will think about this option.
Btw, thank you once more for this great service.

I'm a motion designer and I like to post my works in progress as I go along. However, I find that if I do, my finished and complete projects will retreat way back to the back pages of my main video page where people will never find them. Instead they'll just see a bunch of rough and unfinished work, as that is what's newest, and perhaps judge me on that.

So, this has me deleting my work in progress after a bit so that things don't get too cluttered on my main page.

You mention that we can create albums. I think a good solution for me would be for me to set a "main album" that I could know that viewers would see first if they clicked on my name to view my videos. Then from there they could go to "all videos" if they wanted to see the cluttered mess arranged in whatever order they saw fit..

Just a thought..

I definitely agree that being able to arrange albums is a necessary upgrade to vimeo. For example, I embed my videos on my homepage which acts as my digital portfolio. Unfortunately for me, the default action after each video completes is to load links to my three most recently uploaded videos. Because I did not realize how fixed the video order was when I uploaded, one of my oldest and worst videos is directly after my demo reel. So after each video everyone is shown links to a video I would prefer to hide away, and definitely not have as one of the three viewable links. I understand you are able to present your work through vimeo album and channel sections in the order you woudl like, but I think you should be able to rank/arrange the others so that when links are suggested they do not default to only the most recent.

Other than that I am loving vimeo, thanks for your services!

I second this. I have about 20 older videos I'd like upload to Vimeo but I dont want my video order to get all backwards.

I agree. This is a feature that needs to be implemented. I too have older videos that I wish to upload but I don't want them showing up ahead of my more recent ones.

I'm down as well.

Anybody of vimeo's staff can tell us if our request will be real one day ? it should be great to decide how our video show up

One more to join forces. This feature would be well appreciated.

I want to get my voice in for this one as well. It really makes sense. Otherwise, I love this site!

If you want $60.00 from me, then the above ability to order must be done.

Please add an 'arrange order' feature! :( I love vimeo and it's the only thing that i can fault it on.. . brilliant job otherwise! :)x x

I agree with that, it's the biggest vimeo problem !

Yes please.

Add my vote as well - if we can arrange videos within an album, why not allow us to arrange albums?

I'm in

Please.

Me too

I need it too. Can't understand why it can't be done.

I agree. I need to be able to arrange my albums...please help!

I also would like to be able to arrange the sequence in which the videos appear. It seems easy enough to do. There may be good enough arguments about why it isn't done, but that doesn't stop lots of us wanting it.

Couldn't agree more with the majority here. I would love an option to define sorting criteria for viewers of My Videos.

this sort request has been going on for 3 years folks,
vimeo.com/forums/topic:3249
i think we ve waited long enough
so pretty please with sugar on top, can we have that option?

yes, could you please allow this?

I read all the comments, specially those from the staff, and it got me wondering: why is it so hard to creat such an option, specially if it seems like a lot of people want it? whats the downside for vimeo?

joining the crowed on this,
albums are great but most of the time when i check someones work, after seeing a video of theirs that i like, i go to their page...

I often guide people to my vimeo videos for work applications, so being able to rearrange the order would be really appreciated.

Another big YES to being able to rearrange the order.
We are also uploading older videos at a later time.
But I still want my new videos to show first. It's a little option, you really could give us. I don't see any problem.

Yes, I'm also for this option! Would be very helpful to keep stuff in order on my profile without using albums or channels.

Would love to have this feature as well!

Anyone ever used the featured videos list for your profile page at vimeo.com/settings/profile?

Me too.. pretty pretty please! It's really strange that there's absolutely no option to sort the videos.. I would understand if it's a feature only available for the commercial accounts or something. But not being able to change the order at all is a bit of a let down. :(
Of course the "featured videos" is a nice thing.. but that's only 3 videos and only on the main profile page... as soon as somebody looks at the list of your videos (or lands on that page directly from a google search or something) he will see them in the original upload order, which often doesn't make any sense. But all these arguments were already written by previous posters ;)

A "perfect" implementation of this request to me would be something like.. well to be able to add a custom "creation date" that you can enter manually to every video (if you want to) .. and to have that as an additional sort criteria on the video listing page. And then having an option in your own profile settings to set the default sort cirteria if somebody visits your video page without having explicitely selected one.
So you could set that default sort method to "creation date" and make sure you have all the creation date fields in your videos set correctly.. et voila... ;)

maybe if they would put that option people would upload more videos and maybe that is for now not the plan.
I would like the option too but whatever. The service is good and like that there is not risk to find a 10000000 boring videos like on youtube. Just the best one or the less boring one! :-)

I am using flavors.me as a front end to allow users to view my videos.

The problem here is that it will only show the videos in the order I upload them which is not necessarily anythign to do with what people want to see.

I would like to have the most popular videos showing up n the main page and then users can follow the link to vimeo or other resources if they are interested.

From a user perspective it is not particularly interesting to know in what order i happened to upload videos - they just want to see the best ones

As a plus member it would be really cool to have a re arrange button. Youtube offers it !

but thx for the great service.

Soxiam, this argument smacks of Adobe's 'reasoning' behind not being able to save alpha channels as most people would like them to be used. "It's not the way *we* see it should be done" They say, whilst people are crying out for a change. You are not listening to the user base. This missing feature is pretty much the only reason I can't use Vimeo. I have a ton of things I'd like to upload. I'd be happy (content anyway) to pay for a Plus account for the flexibility of re-ordering on the front page. I have too many files to sit there and ensure that I upload in the exact correct date order of creation. This needs to be flexible, if it was, more people would use it. As it is, it's not a tool for practical use. Other sites can do it, you can reorder your blogs etc. If it's something that's just impossible in the way that the coding for the site has been created then just spit it out and say so, otherwise how about believing in what the users want instead of what you think they should want. This dicussion has been going on for 3 years and everybody still wants the same things, it's time to adjust Vimeos 'Philosophy" and agree with the people who provide content for it. I would love to use it but can't due to inflexibility. Lot's of people have said they would take on a Premium account for this feature, you obviously don't need the revenue enough to give your clients what they would like, well done.

Soxiam, it's lovely that you "believe that we offer enough compelling features such as albums,..etc etc". You're obviously wrong otherwise peole wouldn't still be pleading for this featuire 3 years on.

Excuse the rant, seems like it's an appropriate subject to bang a head against a brick wall for all the feedback from Vimeo it gets.

I want to get my video history online, sounds like Youtube is the place for it.

pretty please?

Daniel, I'm a plus user. I actually am okay with only be able to arrange order of videos in my channel or on an album. Recently, however, I went above 30 or so videos on the channel and received a message that above 30 videos I could no longer arrange things, and it reverted back to the latest uploaded-first thingy. I produce sequential content that needs to be in order. However it is in different categories that I need to arrange the order of each of the videos. In other words ... different categories in which I may have up to 40 videos in each category ... all of which must be in a certain order. So my question is ... why the limit to the number of videos that can be arranged on channels? And is this limit applicable also to Albums? I am struggling to find a way to "design" my presentation of the material overall, but I don't want to put in significant work only to be told later there is a limit that I did not know about earlier. Hope this makes sense. Can you help me? Are there limits on the number of videos that can be arranged in Albums like there are for Channels? Is this documented anywhere? Thanks ... otherwise wonderful service!

Totally agree! Uploading a back-log of work is a nightmare!

My issue is exactly this, adding back-logs of older work...

I don't want to use albums nor do I want to bother customizing a profile page. All I would like to be able to do is to reorder the default sequence of my videos, so it actually represents the sequence in which I have created these works, regardless of when they were uploaded.

Please, this shouldn't be too hard, right?

Also worth pointing out: I can arrange videos in an Album, but just as I cannot arrange the videos on the 'My Videos' page, I cannot arrange the albums on the 'My Albums' page. I am really surprised to see that such basic functionality is missing from Vimeo, and hope it will be added soon. It seems people have been asking for this feature for at least 3 years now.

I just joined as a plus member and uploaded all my past work thinking 'surely you can change the timestamp'. But oh no... looks like I'll be deleting everything and re-uploading.

So.. please??

Please add this feature!!! It is a tremendous pain to delete and re-upload my videos in the order which I like. PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!!!!

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I understand that the viewer is king, and if the site isn't organized for the viewers they will leave. The viewers should have control to see things as they wish, I really believe this approach is best and I think the way Vimeo handles the user experience is great across the site. I love it!

I think Vimeo is so great, that I am trying to set it up to host my portfolio of works, commercial and otherwise. I WAS using it to post occasional fun/silly projects and such, but now Im really trying to invest here. I was a webdeveloper and can easily host my videos myself, in a number of formats in flash, quicktime, ipod friendly, etc., but I was drawn to Vimeo for the complete package- great interfaces, quality, ease of use, and the community.

Now that I have started uploading old projects, some I would rather users look at later, they are on top. I will bury them with more and new things soon, but its still a random jumble- a reflection of my use of the service and changes in the way I host, etc. I will create albums soon, maybe a channel, though I don't know what that is exactly.

What I experience when I see a video I like that is hosted by Vimeo, is excitement to see more by that user, so I click and go to their page. And I click on "videos" because I want to see their channel or whatever. I want to see all their videos, the good and bad and all that, I don't want to see something over curated. I just want to see all their videos, and I prefer to see them just as they were made. Which is by date. Not by upload time. You could make the default sorting order for a user's videos "user date" something. You could change "newest" to "newest upload" get rid of alphabetical. is that too messy?

Right now Vimeo is set up for the casual and spontaneous and the new. Which is great. But if it could accommodate the old as well, the service would become more useful for filmmakers who want to use it to represent their work.

If filmmakers have almost no control over the order their videos show up on the main page that viewers see, it really drains the usefulness of the site for them, and in tern, the viewer. Would it cost too much in simplicity?

agree

wow!
didn't checked the post since a while..
happy most of you share the same opinion :)
cheers!

I too share the same opinion. I thought I would let my voice be heard as well. This would be a great feature.

Thanks Vimeo.

Same for us !! This feature is indeed necessary...

I am a filmmaker and say please
add Date of Creation
add ability to rearrange videos

Again, I agree that the viewer is king, but the initial impression is controlled by the person adding the content. (e.g. In a store the customer is king, but store owners don't just put the products in the store in the order they are delivered. They arrange it nicely and make it flow well.)

I am purposely not uploading old work and films because I don't want it at the top of the list. I'd rather people dig down the list to get to my older work.

Just simply a "date of creation" field added and a switch somewhere that says "sort movies by - date uploaded or date of creation" would be amazing.

Please please give us this, or none of my old content will ever go up there.

new plus member here and in total agreement that a re-arrange ability is crucial. Please add!

I agree. We need an option to re-arrange videos.

I'm here to cast my vote for the right to re-arrange our content.

Thanks for everything else though!

I also think creators should be able to arrange content in the order they wish. Initial presentation should be whatever order the content creator desires. However users wish to sort content after the initial presentation is up to them.

I don't really care what they do after the first viewing but the first time they come to the page I want them to see my Demo Reel at the top of the list.

That little issue aside, I love the site. That one feature would switch me to a paying customer. I almost signed up today and that kept me from doing it.

Another vote for option to rearrange and order content. PLEASE. And ASAP. For those of us who use vimeo as our portfolio (or indirectly link to it, like through flavors.me) -- this is CRUCIAL.

THANKS.

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I agree. This is a really important feature. For someone who just opened an account, I've just wasted a few hours attempting to reorder through deleting and uploading again.

One more to agree:-) To be able to re-arrange on the main page would be great. thanks

How many people browse albums etc.? So re-arranging is just crucial. Don't be so stubborn and just give your customers a nice re-arrange-checkmark..

Dear Vimeo: Look at all of these "plus" members asking for this simple change. Wake up and give the users what they want before someone else does.

This feature would be so nice. Sooooo nice.
He's right you know...lots of "plus" members here, but I will never leave you Vimeo, never never, unless you put an ad in my video, but lets face it, Im lazy and I probably still wouldnt leave.

Yes, I would like this too.

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Low and behold, got a Plus account erroneously thinking this option was a given. The argument against curatorial empowerment doesn't add up. Both as content provider and as audience, I would like to be presented with factual order, and not ambiguity. As it stands, a video that was created several years ago should not go in front of newer work if the author doesn't wish it so.

I understand there are other ways to organize, but I don't believe those are sufficient options compared to how most users peruse the site (might be a bit presumptuous here).

Anyways, those are my thoughts. I do enjoy what you guys got here, a cut above the rest, but please consider implementing this for your customers and visitors, thanks.

The same reasoning that goes into arranging songs on an album goes into arranging the order of videos. The creator wants to take the viewer through an experience. Being able to control the order is vital. The user can always scroll around and skip movies if they want to, but the creator should be able to lay out the order in which they first appear. Please add this feature.

And most people will go to your home page, not your Vimeo albums.

Well, it has been said before but I will say it again: please add the custom arrange feature or at least the option to let visitors see oldest video first.

Hi,

I REALLY need this feature as well. We would like to organize our work not by date uploaded, but by our own selection, in the Video tab. It's crucial because our clients visit our page and we would love to be able to present certain videos up front.

Please reconsider Vimeo team.

Thank you.

I am moving into the NYC freelance videographer market, and as a result I am referring potential clients to my vimeo site as my general reel. It is really important to me to be able to arrange my profile so that the videos I most want people to see are on top, as the ones on top will inevitably be viewed more. When I send my vimeo page link to someone, I don't necessarily want them to see the most recent video I've uploaded first, but rather the ones I think are going to make me look the best. As a paying vimeo member, I really think I should have the right to customize the order of my videos. The ability to customize one's media is a well-established option on Facebook, Youtube, and other web giants, and I really think it puts Vimeo at a disadvantage to not offer this feature to the user.

Feeling really disappointed finding out that I can't rearrange my videos AFTER I bought a plus account. Bummer!

+1

And that's me too...
Please can we have this feature, Vimeo!

I thought this used to be possible...or is it only when videos are in groups?

+1 in favour of fixing this.
Please also note that when you're embedding or linking to vimeo from some other sources, the customized channel workaround doesn't work.

+1

+1

"And most people will go to your home page, not your Vimeo albums" ... or channels.

we agree with this and thus encourage the development of being able to adjust the cover dates in order to edit the presentation of videos. thanks, Chris Healey.

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If you could custom arrange the order of presentation, it would make all the difference for me. Latest does not mean greatest.

+1, I'd really like to be able to manually drag the video thumbnails around on my homepage until I have them arranged exactly how I want.

I'm creating a TV series and use Vimeo to share the current edits with the producers, investors, and sales people. Virtually all of my videos are confidential and password protected. The series has 26 episodes that are uploaded as various hurdles are completed like color correction, audio mix, compositing and visual FX, etc.

Albums don't work for me because of the whole "If you put it in an album, we assume you want the video to go public." I don't. I simply want to organize my content on my home page the way I want to organize it for my own benefit.

I don't see what is so hard about providing the option. It's a variable. Right now you're using upload date/time. Add "custom order" as a new variable and a "Sort By" popup. Put in a little drag and drop code or some up/down buttons to bump videos into a different order and Bob's your uncle.

I want this for my own personal sanity. By the time this is done, there will be a massive tangle of versions that are all jumbled up because post production is not a linear process. I honestly don't understand the obsession with upload date.

big +1 over here too

Jeez Vimeo -- what's so wrong letting your users organize their work not by date but the way we want it to appear...?!

Fix it. This is embarrassing -- your silence is like you voluntarily want us to shoot you in the foot.

I concur with the sentiment of this discussion, please give us profile page video ordering options Vimeo. Thank you in advance!

I agree. I want to post videos in a certain order to my FaceBook Page. I can't do that. I can re-order an album but I can't put an album on a FaceBook Page Vimeo tab. Please put this right staff. It's very annoying.

Could not agree more with the sentiment here Vimeo. Just joined as a Plus member and the lack of a reorder feature is a major disappointment.

Please make it possible to arrange videos in any way the uploader sees fit. Would be a HUGE help to the independent filmmaker. Thank you!

Dear Mr Vimeo,
How does allowing the author to control order disempower the viewer? This is something that Vimeo has not explained to my satisfaction. The fact is, I can order my videos but this does not prevent the viewer from picking and choosing. In fact, that is how I browse Vimeo - I pick which videos to watch mainly based on their thumbnails, so will scroll through a list looking for interesting things.
That said, when I look at a designer's work, I pay attention to the order, and look for a progression from older to newer, also looking for a development of work - I expect better quality work to be the top-most in the list, and usually the best work is the work done this year, not two years ago.
I have been uploading my body of work, but only just realised I cannot change the order of movies. I have been uploading based on which clips I had easiest access to - I did not realise Vimeo required me to plan my uploads to make chronological sense!
Please, for the sake of those of us using Vimeo as a portfolio of work, allow us to change the order of clips in our profiles, without having to resort to albums (which I do not believe regular viewers - like myself, a viewer for more than 3 years) use at all.
Thanks for your consideration.

Vimeo, PLEASE address this. As a Creative Director I want the ability to curate my work in the order that I feel makes the best impression. Clearly LOTS of Plus users want this feature and the technology exists. Why are you guys being so stubborn?

Wow - didn't find anything about this topic in the FAQ where I searched around 30 minutes to find some infos about »arranging/sorting« videos - now I know why :-)
Please Vimeo - give us this option!

Add the ability to organize one's own videos. Thank you.

Please add "Creation Date" as meta-data that can be added and used for sorting.

Creation date is much more important than the date a video is uploaded.

Wow - still can't arrange? I'd sure like my reel to show up 1st on my main page... rather than buried

The solution is as simple as this:

Please add "Creation Date" as meta-data that can be added and used for sorting.

Creation date is much more important than the date a video is uploaded.

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This feature is essential if I'm to upgrade to Plus. I'm not uploading my older videos because I don't want them to show up at the top of the list -- and I want to be able to send out my vimeo profile to people.

I would like this feature too please.

just to throw our hat in the ring as well, this would be a great feature to get to arrange videos ourselves!

As a new plus member this morning I began uploading all my older work just to find out that my newest work is stuck at the end of the list. Seriously for such a great site this is a simple problem and theres an obvious demand from your customers to fix it.

I also want to be able to arrange the home page of the group I created with the videos in the order I want people to see....it seems a lot of people contributing their work are constantly deleting their videos and resending them to the group in order 'bump' and have their work featured.....this causes me to reject their work....as the creator I want the control of what is featured!!!

Yes, I would like this too!

It's a joke how many people want this simple feature and you simply brush the issue off claiming we can do it with an album. This is pathetic, just let people reorder their videos, I personally will be switching back to YOUTUBE, as the simple task of uploading older work to the back of the queue is impossible with vimeo. Failure to ignore your core users demands will hopefully be your downfall

Give it to us!!!! Please? Atleast for paying plus members like me.

We'd love to upload some of our older work (5-6 years old!) but we can't risk people thinking it's our latest stuff. Sorry, Vimeo. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed.

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i agree this is a really important feature for videographers etc wanting to pull old jobs into their vimeo portfolio.. I was hoping to move all my old work from youtube across to vimeo but having everything appear ass-about is really not ideal. and just 'putting them in an album' isn't really a solution because people that land on the profile page are only really going to click through to the video list.

please reconsider vimeo team.

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I would like to put my 2 cents forward as a light user of vimeo.

I only share videos on vimeo with my family. The regular videos like bar-b-q, a trip, family picnic and so on. I would upload a bunch of videos which are not in any order. It could be first video of my recent trip and then the last video just to give my family a trailer while i convert and upload the rest of the videos. Once all is done i would like to rearrange my videos in order that i want my family to see it and this is where i would like to have this feature. Being a web developer myself, i would say a simple drag and drop script might sort out my problem and as it seems from this thread, many others.

Seems like this is being debated for 2 years now internally and on the forum i would suggest testing this feature with a few members and see the results.

Thanks for great site. Increase the 500MB limit a week for free users :) and 3 HD videos please.

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I've been waiting so long for this... Is there feedback from Vimeo or is everyone being ignored here?

There are two ways to see this. Either you want your complete filmography to be on vimeo, in which case the argument stands that ordering them by date is of prime importance because you don't want recently digitized old stuff buried under your new films.
And the other thing is that you should only upload what is brand new and finished and polished and refined - and that's vimeo's point, I think. Allowing people to upload their old stuff and place them at the back of their page is just hosting people's films that they are sentimentally attached to but not sure they're gonna be a hit.
So really ask yourself what you want people to see coming from you, old stuff or new stuff? I understand both points of views because as a filmmaker i wish people would arrive on my page and see films ordered like when people go on IMDb. But the way it works now kind of forces you to be really selective with your work and upload your recent stuff - because life should be aimed towards the future, right? And this website is good because it features beautifully crafted, finished films, right? Not "in progress" videos or films from when we were 12 years old trying to make films in our backyards.
Besides, if you make a showreel an album or a channel are great tools.

So, as much as I am annoyed that if I upload just any old short film that i've made 20 years ago but recently digitized it will show up on top of my films, I also respect and like the fact that it makes me chose more carefully what I want to upload, thus forcing me to think in terms of quality before uploading.

i probably agree with all those people above me

I agree with you Dustin.
Just want to drag the video thumbnails to reorder. It's important! Has this been made possible yet? Thanks.

+1 on the wanting to re-order issue

There must be some technical issue, because it's pretty clear that anyone who stumbles in on this conversation would LOVE to be able to rearrange the order of how their videos are presented in the right-hand list.

I dont understand why this request is so hard to accomplish? It's obvious that this is a service many people are asking for (and people have been asking for many years I might ad) so could you please explain to me why you refuse to do it? If you can arrange in any order you want in albums and channels, why would you not offer that service for everything. My main problem is that you can not link an album to a flavors webpage, so arranging my videos in album does me no good.
Thanks.

-Beaux

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Am a Plus user and happened to upload 40 videos in a short span of time and was aghast that my best/latest work got buried away.

I totally, absolutely, vehemently, imperatively, desperately wish to see this custom-sorting feature implemented right away PLEASE. For the following reasons:

1) I do not think it is manipulative on my part to put my best foot forward and present visitors what I think are my best videos right away. I really care that they experience the best of what I have to offer without having to grope their way around my page. THIS, is good user experience in this context. NOT the cliched/standardized drop-down sort options.

2) When I can control much else of how visitors can see my stuff - including name of video, my name, Like button, Share button, color etc etc - pretty much everything else, what is the big ethical/moral issue with letting me decide the order of my videos???

3) It is not even a technology bottleneck. It is doable and done. YouTube offers this already. Ouch, that probably rankles.

Hope you will take serious note and implement this immediately. It really really really really really really really matters.

My best compliments to your otherwise fantastic work.

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Cannot believe this hasn't been implemented yet!

I too have a bunch of past videos that I'd like to upload (mostly grad school/ITP documentation), but I want my full video stream to be in order of when I actually recorded the video. Chronology is really important to me. Drag 'n drop organization would be great but maybe a simpler way to do this would be to allow Plus members to change the date in the settings area, in the same way that WordPress allows one to change the date of a post. If authenticity is an issue, perhaps the "creation date" which sets the order of the videos could be distinct from the "upload date" which could be displayed inconspicuously on the player page. (I didn't get a chance to read the whole thread, so maybe someone already proposed this, in which case I'm giving a "+1".) Thanks.

+1 PLEEEEEEASSE , I've stop to upload because of this... This is the Huge problem of vimeo. When I upload a video now, my favorite videos go to page 2... I don't want that , I want to have all the best videos in the first page... give us the choice by adding a "by favorite order" list, and that we can choose what order is by defaut when some one log in our page.

Thank you ! love vimeo.

10 Months ago I wanted this feature... I guess I'll just have to delete and reupload my videos in the specific order I want to show them...

is it just me but the albums bug out when I'm trying to drag and arrange the order, they wont save in the order i place them - its driving me nuts, this may be costing me work as my presentation is all over the place..

tried putting videos in order, in an album - It will not save it correctly - just tried it on another mac, still the same problem!!

please please please add this..i have 3 different + accounts with you guys...its a simple request that will help a lot of people

I just want to say the vimeo Uploaded is garbage. Thats all. Its says it takes 4hrs to upload a 500mb file?!

Back to TrustWorthy YouTube then.

In the absence of a proper response from Vimeo, let's theorize why that is. Vimeo, prove us wrong!

1. Vimeo was developed in an erroneous way so that this feature, however simple it might seem, is impossible to implement.

2. Vimeo staff is afraid that the increased volume of content this feature might lead to would outgrow their server capacity.

3. Vimeo staff has a specific ideological problem with implementing this feature. It somehow conflicts with their ethos. An internal conflict might even be the reason for the silence. No one dares to comment.

4. Vimeo earns a lot of money. That being their sole interest, there is no incentive to listen to their userbase.

5. Vimeo's development is limited by some contract with one or more investors.

6. Vimeo's staff is just plain arrogant.

I'm not going to say "please" like so many have done here. I paid for Plus; if this feature can not or will not be implemented, spell it out. I can't recommend this service to friends or colleagues if you can't even give your customers a proper answer.

I believe this feature is not even something to think about Vimeo guys... its something that needs to be fixed. I love Vimeo, and I am very thankful for the great service you guys been giving us so far, but please, dont leave us in the dark, without answers. I am also a Vimeo Plus user, a motion designer and starting as a director, and this is something we need, there isnt just really much discussing to be done at this point... I see this as a "fix" than a "feature". And please, do reply to your users request, be that response positive or negative, I think we deserve that, for trusting your service and investing on it.

I thank you in advance, and I anxiously waiting for an answer.

+1

For me it is a problem because I upload music videos to show them to people and password protect them. When they get released the video is already "a month old" with 5 clicks. So yes I need to reset the date.

+1. as a plus user I would also expect to be able to rearrange the videos or show them by creation date... Channels are not an option. PLEASE CHANGE IT! Everything else you offer is so great! It should only be a small step for you.

new to vimeo..Whats the best way to generate traffic on here

Yes I would like this too!

Custom creation dates and a default option to sort by that. Add my name to the list. Thanks, Vimeo.

Actually, if you think about it arranging by creation date is actually more truthful and helpful to the viewer. Sure, leave "upload date" arranging as an option, but know it's often more inaccurate.

+1.

I thought I wasn't getting something. I surveyed my account thinking I must be dense not being able to find the obligatory 'Arrange Videos' option. Then I see this thread and now I'm thinking I can't believe people have been requesting pretty rudimentary option for 2 years without getting any satisfaction. Poor form Vimeo.

Not to be pithy, but when I worked in software "philosophy" was usually engineer code for legacy.

I think it would really benefit all of us to finally see vimeo allow for user defined display of content on our pages.

And conversely Funny or Die has a pretty neat way of displaying videos not just by the order the user wishes but by the magnitude the user wishes to display them. Such as featuring certain videos on the users own profile pages and arranging videos how the user sees fit. Maybe the vimeo folks should take a test drive over there for some inspiration.

Hell, make it a pro feature as an incentive for me to rejoin the vimeo pro ranks. Cheers

Hi Mr. Vimeo,
everything has already been said by 163 people before me, and since last STAFF reply is 9 months old, maybe some news will be born soon?

Everybody agrees that the problem with album is that they are cool yes, but they are a hidden feature, one must go and look for them, as if any user has to think: "should i watch his videos OR his albums??"
I think here lies the problem.

I had a bit of time and i've made this rough sketch to illustrate how to possibly improve this service
It's about MERGING the video section and the album section:

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This idea is even more complicated than just let video being organized manually - but hey.

I'm not going to say that ANY other online community (behance, coroflot etc and even youtube) offers this chance to custom organize videos
I'm not going to say that I turned to Plus in the hope to find this option available and I'm not going to say that I was very disappointed when I found out it was still not possible.

So instead of complaining I came up with this idea, hence please Mr. Vimeo say something and don't hide behind the "you can do it in albums" statement.

We use Vimeo as work platform, and many of us pay for it, you should listen to 164 politely angry voices.

Peace.

Have you guys done this yet?

It is quite important for anyone who is trying to make a particular impression. As one's work improves, so should ones ability to showcase it.

+17, explained in the following rant:
I've just purchased a vimeo plus account in order to display my work on my professional site. I love the quality and ease of use of Vimeo, and am really dismayed that this issue, which has stopped me from becoming a member in the past, has still not been solved. Anyone who clicks on to vimeo from the embedded videos (and I know I do that quite a lot), gets to my profile page. And most people I know including myself, then click on the list of videos. Not on Albums or Channels or anything else. I've read through both threads I could find on this subject and it feels like you Vimeo guys are frankly evading the issue and not being open about the actual reason for it. And so I urge you:

Would you please explain, in a simple and concise manner, why you believe that encountering a bunch of arbitrarily sequenced videos (since that's what displaying them by upload date amounts to) is more conducive to a user's experience then seeing them arranged by a date tag or anything else by default?

It seems like such a simple matter- if you really believe chronological display should be a default, fine- please let me enter the date the video was actually produced in my settings. Right now I'm stuck with a bunch of old videos that I "made the mistake" of uploading after everything else. They keep jumping to the front of the line where I really don't want them to be- and I have no way of fixing this short of re-uploading everything or just removing the old videos altogether. This just doesn't make any sense, and has nothing to do with viewer vs. producer flexibility: this arbitrary parameter for organization of the videos is not any more flexible or natural to the viewer than encountering them in any other order- if you think otherwise please share this with us here.

+1

+1
when will be there a solution?
this question is discussed for more than 4 years!!!

+1!

+6 As a studio this is a much needed feature.

...an impassioned +1!

Please add the custom arrange feature!!! I've been a pro user for several years, and it would make Vimeo better than ever. Please help us out, Vimeo.

+1 Have you guys done this yet? It's been like forever that everybody is asking for a simple way to arrange videos

Yes PLEASE! thank you

I join the request. Please Vimeo, make it happen!

This request has been floating around for more than two years. My hopes therefore aren't high, but I too would love to see this feature!

It is true that it is the sole great lack in the Vimeo possibilities.... Tried loads to bypass the problem but the only way is to re-upload everything I'm afraid...

Yes, this is a deficiency.

this feature would make vimeo mos def the best videohosting site out there!!!!

This really hasn't happened yet?

I can only add my voice to the multitude. This is important to me too, and a basic feature of the MobileMe universe I recently quit for Vimeo !

I would also like to add, politely, I agree with everyone here. This is a feature that would be super helpful.

I was really hoping that the 'new' vimeo would include the ability to choose which order my videos appear on my main page, but so far it still doesn't appear to be an option.

+1

Way over due!

I see I am late to the discussion that goes back two years.
Looking at the comments I do not see many staff responses. Given Vimeo's reputation as high end and cutting edge service I would think Vimeo would be all over this. Where there is a will there is a way. Vimeo please find the will. Vimeo will remain great only if it listens to their customers.

This is ridiculous. Don't give up hope people. One day vimeo will implement this change.

Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaangeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

+1 An important deficit.

Now that I have a Plus account, I'm adding older videos, and I need to sort them by date made, not date uploaded.
I need this on the default home page & sidebar.

Album doesn't sort by date uploaded, nor can it be made the default page.
A Channel can not be made the default page, and custom sorting is limited to 30 videos.
The sidebar seems random, regardless.

Other people have other custom needs, the big picture is that more freedom to customize is needed.

This discussion has gone on for years.
Occasional staff mentions of Vimeo's philosophy about who controls viewing seem like a way to avoid the bother of a fix. If you must charge more, so be it, but something should be done.

We are Plus members as well and would like to be able to decide what videos are listed on our Vimeo page (vimeo.com/oiffy) and in what order.

This is a no-brainer and very much missing feature.

Can someone from Vimeo please respond to these requests? They've clearly been going on for a long time - OVER TWO YEARS!!! - and a long list of paying, professional customers are unhappy that they're being ignored.

Thank you.

I'm a film maker and have just joined Vimeo to be able to showcase my work to others outside my own website. Without thinking about it, I started uploading all my best work first and the oldest work last. After uploading about 21 films I realized I have no control over how they display. I kept thinking that I cannot find how to do that as the thought that you won't let me do that seemed so improbable.
My hunt as to how to do this has brought me to this forum.
Can I please add my request to the umpteen others that this is really important to us as professionals to be able to showcase our work in the order we want. I've read some comments from the Staff about how they want to empower the viewer rather than the host to decide the order of the videos. But frankly in your in case it's neither the viewer or us who decide the order but 'Vimeo' who has decided that the videos can only appear in the order they want. All you need to do is to at least give us a choice within your 'sort' button options to make any other one of the existing buttons the default setting instead of 'date Added'.
Please let me know if there is any plan to do this or else I need to erase all my films and start uploading them again

We have 130 videos sitting on BLIP waiting to be moved here and we CAN'T because you don't allow us to arrange the videos in the order we require. I've moved 35-40 videos here and now we're regretting making the move to a PRO account here. Please give us an ETA on being able to do this other than ERASE everything and uploading 169 videos from oldest to newest. This is ridiculous that we can't rearrange the video order.

+1

Vimeo is phenomenal. However, it just seems logical that if someone is paying for a plus or pro account that they should have the flexibility to create an experience they wish for viewers of their work to have.

Channels are a good idea, but it still has flaws. If I have 30+ videos then I'm not allowed to rearrange them. That is not good at all.

I signed up for a plus account for a month, thinking the options would be there. Sadly this is not so. Atleast I have a month to build a video player and host all of my work on my site, as I don't see Vimeo making tremendous strides over the next 30 days. Oh well.

I strongly agree, especially as a paying member. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it customisable.

Another one adding his voice. LIke others, I concentrated on getting content uploaded not realising I couldn't re-order once uploaded.
IMHO . . .essential for a site such as this.

As someone who has just converted his entire body of work over to vimeo and just discovered I can't arrange them from "best" to "least best" in my own opinion, I'm amazed this hasn't happened yet. PLEASE RESOLVE THIS ISSUE, VIMEO!

pretty please.

This is crazy, look how many people need this feature and Vimeo are ignoring everyone. PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT PAY FOR YOUR SERVICE!. I use vimeo as a portfolio and would like to have my showreel appear at the top of the list or order in the way I want, Is this really too much to ask for ?

I want to be able to arrange my videos how I see fit after I have posted more than 30 videos. Why 30? This is completely illogical and given that I am paying the bills I would like to have the say as to how my clips are presented. I can't understand Vimeo's pin headedness about this especially with the torrent of complaints about it.

I agree with the community. Vimeo, make your people happy!

I've been waiting for so long ...

Dear Vimeo, can we get some feedback on this please?

Thank you.

x1000 for custom orders

It baffles me how the Staff refuses to provide us with a simple feature that obviously is desired by a large majority of the community. It is little things like this that cause people to wander elsewhere to post their work. Would giving us the option of setting the order of our videos cost you millions of dollars? Would it cause your servers to crash? I highly doubt it. Whoever the hard head is that is making the decision to NOT grant their community their request needs to pull their head out of their own ass and start trying to make the people happy.

Add me to the list. I have a few older projects that I would love to post, but would not like them showing first. Vimeo is a great service but the content provider/storyteller should have this option.

Still debating this? Really? Come on Vimeo!

I can't believe this discussion started 2 years ago and there is still no solution more clear explanation brought to the problem. Vimeo people, it's not because you have a predominant influence on the market that you should not care about responding to the user needs.

I would like this too please.

No news about this? 2 years after and still many of us would love to see this feature.
listen to your users vimeo! :)

my website stil looks like a mix of a bunch of random videos. very much amateur.

+1

Please.

I would also like this feature!!!

Happy to pay for a PLUS account for this.

I believe that the rationale for giving the artists control of the initial viewing order has been clearly made. What is the hold up in responding to these requests? PLEASE!

I agree with everyone else here. Please sort!

Pretty strange this issue was never resolved...considering I have yet to read a post by a member rejecting this much-needed fix. Seems the only ones rejecting it are the STAFF members. Very strange. Sure isn't a good method for maintaining positive customer relations. They won't even consider the "PLUS" members' advice. Vimeo seems very stubborn when it comes to accepting critical, rational feedback.

content creators should be able to control what order their work is seen in. period. it's their portfolio, they should decide. just like they decide what order the shots and scenes in their films go. and practically, filmmakers don't always have access to the best versions of their films at any given moment. or the might be waiting for rights to clear. there are a million reasons why people don't upload their work in the chronological order it was made. nor is that necessarily the order they'd want it in any way. and as far as the argument that the current system maximizes the experience or users/viewers, i would simply ask "how"? are viewers silently clamoring to watch internet video content in the precise order in which it was uploaded? or do they really not know or care about such esoteria, and just wanna see something that will engage them?

official vimeo folks who've posted here claim that the "albums" will allow creators the video arranging control they want, but that ONLY helps when someone has a direct link. if someone does a search for a content creator's name, or clicks on a link from another video, then they will see the creator's work in the default way, which is: last uploaded, first seen.

please, vimeo. pretty please and double-secret please, add the ability for content creators to arrange their videos however they want, on their profile page, and any other page.

Come on, Vimeo. You have the technology to do this! You have proven this with the customized order function in My Albums. It would not hurt to add this function to the My Videos section as well, would it? What really hurts is for me to DELETE all my movies, FIND OUT which order they were created, UPLOAD them again, and HOPE that I do not find an old movie that should have been listed earlier...

I am a long-term MobileMe (which HAS the manual sorting function) user, and if it wasn´t for Apple´s weird decision making, I would not have joined Vimeo and paid for a years´s PLUS membership.

So please listen to me and the other 200+ people in this discussion and include this simple function.

I totally agree with all of the comments above, and it's not rocket science to put this right so I would love to know why this discussion has been going on for 2 years with no real response?

As a new VimeoPlus member, and therefore someone who pays for your services, I would have thought it is in Vimeo's interests to keep me and the thousands of other paying customers happy. The users pay nothing... Why weigh the options in their favour? The customer is always right... Right?

If this isn't addressed properly by this time next year when my subscription is up again, I will use an alternative... Simple as...

+1

+1

Add me to the list...I was about to go Pro thinking I would get more control over this, now I'm having second thoughts. I simply don't understand Vimeo's aversion to this idea. I've recently started using Vimeo exclusively to host my animation work, but now I need to add a large back catalog of older videos and I really don't want that work to sit on top of newer stuff. I have albums but I rarely use them, don't know many that do, and if somebody clicks on an embedded video to go to my user page it certainly doesn't redirect them to the album of my choice. All we are asking for is a date field where we can set how things are arranged on our MAIN VIDEO PAGE. Come on Vimeo, listen to your users. The debate over user control is moot, they can still sort or arrange as they like, but at the very least the default arrangement should be defined by the creator of that content.

I have tried to custom arrange a video in my channel by dragging the video to the #1 position. I hit save changes and absolutely nothing happens. For one of the staff members in another thread who said that there was never a "feature" option in the old channel look, he is incorrect. I use to "feature" my videos by picking the video I wanted to feature and selecting the "feature" option. Now I have to drag the video I want to the top, but for some reason it isn't working for me, even when I press "save." Perhaps I have to be a PLUS member to be able to use this option?

Add my vote to add the feature.

I'm not suggesting to 'force viewers', I agree. But everyone (including users -most of whom are filmmakers) should have a choice.

What if albums are arranged by default in the order in which the owner sets them and there is a big, beautiful, visible, friendly, easy-to-access button that viewers can click to re-arrange by date?

Please, please, please.

Just joined Vimeo Plus, so add my voice to get a proper sort feature

Please

+1

Yes PLEASE. This is surely a no-brainer. It's very frustrating and makes Vimeo useless as a portfolio site as you can't properly control what your visitors will see when they first visit your account. You end up having to build another site or blog to display your videos in the order you want. Albums and channels are not a good enough solution as people still head straight for your main page once they are on the site.

+ 1

Would be nice if Vimeo deigned to respond to this forum after so many months of silence. Throw us a bone.

+ 1

I'd like this feature as well.

This would be a very welcome feature after literally years of users requesting it.

Vimeo, we love you guys. But we would love you forever if you would add this feature:) +1 Great all around service, this would just be really helpful.

+1

Just recently switched to Vimeo from YouTube because it's so much better in so many ways. Now I'm not sure if I'll stick with it. Example: As videographer for a big family wedding, I'm posting segments of the wedding weekend as I finish them, and sending family members to Vimeo to view them. Members who first tune in when I'm done with whole project will see a nice display of the whole wedding weekend in REVERSE, starting with the reception and ending with the bachelor party! I noticed the option for the viewer to sort the videos alphabetically by title and figured I could at least use that, so I started each title with a number. But assuming I can even get people to check that option, when they go to "couch" viewing mode to watch the wedding, it STILL starts at the end with the reception! This lack of presentation control is so ridiculous that whatever Vimeo's strange motives may be, I feel like they will eventually have to resolve this. Then I will embrace this service wholeheartedly.

+1

please fix this.. !!!!!!!!!

Please give the paying customers, PLUS, more control over their Vimeo. Do whatever youwant with the free memberships but we paying members deserve more in the way of customization. Everything is too much like YouTube now- reduced to the lowest common denominator.

Am I asking too much?

+1

+1

We are paying costumers. Make this work for us. Please. Thank you.

Please provide this feature:-)

+1

The problem with "Album" as a solution for custom arrangement of the videos is that it doesn't function as the front page of the users. In order for visitors to arrive to the album, the users must send a direct link to them. It is not an elegant solution as Daniel Hayet (STAFF) has suggested two years ago on this thread. I would appreciate if we can have the option to use an "album" as the front page. That will fix this issue.

Thanks for listening

Seems somebody got a response from staff in another forum 3 weeks ago:

"Soxiam STAFF 3 weeks ago
It's something we've considered in the past but decided not to. We know the reasons why some of our users would like this feature but we also learned that it's a rather difficult tool to build (at our scale) and make it useful (even for users with thousands of videos)."

Something we considered but decided not to do. Hmmmm. I understand the difficult nature of this task, but to say it wouldn't be useful? Even Facebook allows users to drag and drop photo order in massive albums containing hundreds of images. I believe it is up to the user to decide whether it would be useful or not, and the sheer number of users in this forum begging Vimeo to listen should be a testament to that.

I link to vimeo via my website (flavors.me) and the ability to reorganise the order of my videos is a real deal-breaker for me. I'm thinking of going back to youtube.

Come on Vimeo, Everyone in the industry is asking for the ability to change the viewing sequence of their clips. Please help us out with this. Its the right thing to do.

+1 from me as well.

+1 To be able too customize your Profile on Vimeo!!

Here here! We all want this option. Why not?

+1

Could you please add this option? It would be pretty helpful ... Thank you.

Still not listening to your customers then.

Wow. Just wow. I was thinking about going PLUS but not until this gets resolved. This is a huge problem.

CAN YOU ADD THIS OPTION TOMORROW. I don't need people to watch my crappiest video first... It's just v-idiotic

I have a feeling this is mostly a business related issue. By having the last uploaded video first you will avoid uploading videos that does not reach your public quality standards or your personality/videographer profile. This generates less need for bandwith and storage. I have decided not to care and upload everything I want to share, which means I sometimes have to deal with negative comments related to quality, weirdness and so on... :-)

I don't go to PLUS until this get resolved.
For me too this is a huge problem (remembering exposureroom...very sad...)

Are all the above comments not enough to persuade Vimeo that this is a necessity? Many non-plus members are holding back from signing up...and those who have are already Plus customers should have a say in the service they are paying for.

Mmm... I've just bumped on this problem... that really suck. Please VIMEO do something about it. We are paying customers after all...

Yep this defo needs to be sorted. The answer 'you can arrange albums' just isnt cutting it for a variety of reasons listed above. The bottom line is we all got loads of content that is great in its own right but would rather people saw other stuff first and not be put off by older quirkier videos. It really is making me delete old videos and not put stuff up for this very reason, i'm sure i'm not the only one. On the scale of things this must be fairly easy to implement? Aside from that, awesome service but this is a big problem and i reckon outs a lot of people off.

This discussion was opened 3 years ago, and still no action from Vimeo staff... YES YOU... And another 2 weeks pass by, and not even a response from Vimeo staff... HELLO?. Any chance I might get some kind of response from 5 posts to YOU on this topic.

I'm beginning to think you simply don'g give a SH*T for your customers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, a lot of people want this. I originally thought I was one of the few.

A new Vimeo plus user here and can't believe the re-arrange function has not been implemented after many many years. There's obviously some sort of internal 'philosophy' at Vimeo dictating the resistance. Very disappointing.

Just want to add my voice to this chorus as I literally am baffled every single time I log in to upload a video to my reel and can't manage how it appears. Is there some ideological stance the creators of vimeo have on not letting users have this mind-numbingly basic ability??

Do you organize the apps on your phone? Wouldn't you rather they just appear in the order you bought them? No? Why? Oh, right, cause it makes no useful sense.

Luckily we have this decade old string of ignored users here to give us a useless place to (not) voice this complaint.

As a Vimeo user, and paying customer, who has voiced my opinion on this matter in the past, I can say that my patience has reached an end with this issue. I don't know about the rest of you, but my videos get probably 10% of the traffic they used to before Vimeo revamped and relaunched the site to a disgruntled user base. To not allow paying customers to custom arrange their videos is ridiculous. I hate to say it, but YouTube allows me so many more options for customization that they aren't even comparable anymore. YouTube quality keeps increasing and Vimeo is doing what to keep me shelling out my money year in/year out?

Wow, this is three years old and still in discussion. :)
But it's funny, I also was searching for that kind of feature. Ended up making an album with my own videos. But still, people randomly come to my profile and watch my uploaded videos and not my album.
I would also love to have the possibility to sort "my videos" in a way that I would like to present them to my audience. Maybe by adding the option "custom" to the others "plays" "alphabetical" etc. and being able as a creator to choose what option should be standard for my channel.
Thank you.

Sorry about my recent post. Guess I was feeling a bit cranky. Apologies if I upset anyone. Still would love it if videos could be arranged any way other than through the album/channel or chronological ways..

Awful customer service on this topic... Over a year since Vimeo staff have made any comment or updated us on this. 3 years and getting nowhere it seems.

This would be a really helpful feature. We could use it so that we don't have to be so careful about our video uploading order. We need to upload quickly and across different offices and it seems like an option that should be standard.

I would like to upload my old great videos but I'm not doing because they will appears as last and people will watch them for first.... I'm doing my site for this reason, I waited for a couple of years for this features on vimeo it's such a pity .. anyway thank you for building this great video TEMPLE

Give the people what they want. +1

I paid the $199 a couple of days ago and I'm surprised at how crappy Vimeo is. YouTube is better. wish I could get my money back. they won't respond to my emails. I wonder if maybe vimeo is about to go out of business. they don't seem to have staff to answer this or do the simple coding required to give us one extra choice. I don't think Vimeo will be around much longer. You should make sure you have all this content some place else.

Yet another month goes by without reply... I opened a new discussion called 'Ignorant Vimeo Staff' to which Vimeo staff shut down the discussion; denying anyone their right to contribute to the topic, and myself any 'right to reply' following your dishonest and tardy reply.

This topic is living and breathing proof of my claim that you simply do not care for your customers feature requests... By my calculations it is now 15 months since Vimeo have responded to this topic in any way...

I'd give up, if it weren't so laughable... Oh yes, and that I AM PAYING FOR YOUR SERVICES...

Vimeo, what research have you done that suggests viewers would prefer to see videos in order of upload date over creation date? And to help us understand; for what reason would you prefer to see our videos by upload date over creation date?

+1

Seriously, Vimeo, get over your pride and do something about this request which has topped your suggestions forum for the last three years.

C'mon now!

I will be cancelling my membership when the time is due because this still has yet to be addressed... The lack of communication from Vimeo regarding this is deplorable and very unprofessional.

Please vimeo i need it too/ :)

Please Vimeo, I would like to add my voice to this feature request!

Just joined the Vimeo community. Extremely disappointed by Vimeo lacking this feature. I read the Staff answers and with all due respect, they make no sense to me. We should be able to arrange the content we create and upload in the way we as creators of the content desire, specially after paying $200!. Sorry for my language, but I've got so frustrated after uploading 4 videos for several hours and realize about this.

I have to delete them all and re upload them again in the order I want today, but who knows 1 year later!. To be honest, Who really cares about the upload time!! Really who cares! Am I missing something?

Luckily I don't have many videos to upload so far, but it so strange that after 3 years with SO many valid points and requests, this has not been implemented.

Great disappointment. As another user posted before, I cannot recommend this service to any of my friends as I find that feature a MUST. I need to arrange the videos in the main web, albums and everywhere!

Same here. Still in need for the re-arrange feature - without creating an album.

This still hasn't been implemented? I would of thought the ability to rearrange your videos outside of an album would of been a standard feature for a Plus member.

I believe the people have spoke vimeo. When are you going to rectify this situation. You otherwise offer such a great service. Don't ruin a good thing by dragging your feet on this one.

The default for displaying videos still seems to be upload date. For yourself, you can arrange your vids different ways (alphabetically, etc.). But folks visiting the site see your vids only by upload date. After 3 years (see original post above), this hasn't been resolved. Is there a touchy issue involved here? Would this functionality conflict w/ a core (but unstated) Vimeo philosophy: "Newest is Best"?

Simply put, we need playlist functionality.
Create a playlist of selected videos, and be able to share that out with videos in custom order.
Done and done.

+1........

Unfortunately, it looks like no responses from Vimeo in 2 years since Blake Whitman's suggestion of a "good alternative in the meantime." Definitely not a good sign for this essential feature. 1 of the limitations of this site that have persuaded me not to upgrade.

+ 1

We still need this feature so bad. And we won't stop asking for it.

Vimeo is still the best solution for professionals but lately there are too many signs that something is not working properly in this company.

People starting to tweet about malfunctions, lack of reply from staff, unresolved bugs, and so on...

We love you guys but for how long we can go on like this?

Time for a vimeo alternative thread?

It looks like Vimeo has some issues with dates : )

' Vimeo Staff Staff locked this topic on Dec 31, 1969 because because of inactivity '

vimeo.com/forums/topic:29295

I was about to post an innocent question to the forum "can I set the video date" for EXACTLY the same reason as all these folks.

I paid for Pro to do a bunch of uploads... but I'm editing the videos "out of order" and I want them to be displayed IN order.

View by date: is simply incorrect. My videos *have dates* but they aren't the upload date.
View alphabetica: also incorrect because it doesn't let you switch from a-z to z-a. I'm uploading videos with titles:
2009-11, Thanksgiving
2010-01, New Years

Alphabetical doesn't make it possible to start from most recent.

VIMEO -- PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS!

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Matt.

One thing I'd like to point out.. you say "upload date is upload date". I *totally* agree with you! However, your UI doesn't say "upload date". Your UI says "date". The date of my daughter's 5th birthday is the date of her birthday, it's not the date 7 months later that I uploaded the video.

Please wither change the UI to say "Upload date" (then it'll be accurate!) or let it REALLY, ACTUALLY be the date. Right now it's simply incorrect and confusing for the viewer of the page-- the user you say are trying to optimize for. I mean this in the most friendly way -- I know the "date" of my videos better than you do, though I agree you know the "upload date". :)

+1

I would love to be able to re-arrange video order as well.

More specifically I am using the API to display groups of videos on our site (Series of related Sermons for a church). The "groups" I'm using are channels. This works awesomely and I love it. However we recently went way back into our older sermons and found a few series that never got their own channels, the videos themselves were uploaded to Vimeo in the correct order however since the channels were created out of order I am unable to display the channels in the "correct" (chronological, uploaded date) order.

My solution is going to have to be a hard coded mess in my display page unless there's something I'm missing.

Thank you Vimeo for doing so much RIGHT (it makes the FEW little bothersome things much easier to handle)! You're awesome and we love you.