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Ireland
1 review
13 helpful votes
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This crowd are a real scam. They take your money alright but do not deliver the product you paid for and now I have to chase them for a refund.

I was told what I bought was deleted as it was against their policies, then why
Allow people to buy them.

Hope they close down, better sites out now.

Date of experience: November 21, 2018
New York
3 reviews
92 helpful votes
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Started as a very good video sharing website. But unfortunately now they changed their strategy. Became just another big corporation that doesn't care about what users tell. They changed their UI design and it's a crap now. I saw many people complaining but their staff just told everyone to Shut Up. We don't do anything about it.

We are a paid user and very much disappointed wit Vimeo.com now.

Date of experience: May 2, 2012
Mexico
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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They shut down Ryan Dawson's account & stole his money because he's critical of Israel. I believe they have acted illegally. The New York AG's office should be contacted. I would do it, but I did not contract directly with Vimeo.

Date of experience: November 23, 2018
South Carolina
7 reviews
29 helpful votes
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Like this site for watching what people posts. Some very inspirational videos. Great videos but YouTube still owns this area. Vimeo is a good site but just not home. Vimeo fills more professional. More entertaining to me but i got an account and almost forget I have it at times.

Date of experience: July 21, 2009
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Poor Service/Support
August 29, 2022

They have a good product, but it's overshadowed by their very very bad customer support. I tried to speak with them to walk me through addressing an issue I was having with Vimeo, bit all they wanted to do is send emails back and forth. Never was able to speak with their technical support. Very bad experience. I ended up having to call someone from within our company to come and assist. Cost money and time.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Belarus
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Good videos
August 30, 2019

Found it recently, but like it. Has a lot of good videos.
When searched where to travel in Spain have found videos about that place.
For now i search some property for sale in Barcelona https://tranio.com/spain/catalonia/barcelona for its climate and culture.
Videos are made good for getting info on something interesting

Date of experience: August 28, 2019
Norway
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Vimeo is slow to use, and it doesn't offer HD by default unless you pay. It's far behind Youtube where you can upload 10 hour videos, and double HD. Not that I see the reason why, but my point is that we passed the year 2000 about fourteen years ago.
The most annoying thing with Vimeo, is hat you have to wait in that made up line after you uploaded a video. There is no line, and I am not going to pay for something as slow and backwards as Vimeo when Youtube does it better for free.

Date of experience: October 26, 2014
California
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I think vimeo has stand alone as a video sharing platform more focused on cinematographers than on a regular user video platform I think it has greater quality of videos than youtube although is always good to upload your video to both platforms.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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My company chose to use Vimeo for hosting our videos, and the first few months using the service was nice. It was easy to upload videos, edit privacy preferences, embed in other sites - seemed perfect for our needs.

Once we started relying more and more on Vimeo, we started seeing critical issues with the Vimeo platform and service. We used embedded Vimeo videos on our company homepage, in advertising landing pages, link to them on social media, and started driving paid traffic to them. What happened next blew our minds.

1. There's some kind of glitch with mobile users on iOS when you're preferences aren't configured currently, people can't view your videos (and with half our traffic coming from iPhones and iPads, this was a HUGE problem). We had to go through hundreds of videos and manually re-configure them to work with iOS, crazy!
2. The service routinely goes down. Not like once or twice a year, but once or twice a month. This means your videos don't work. So all your paid traffic is going to broken pages with a video that doesn't play. Videos are critical to our advertising, and with them not working, we see a substantial dip in sales.

Not sure why they have routine outages each month, sometimes lasting 5-10 mins (during critical business hours). There's never notice or an email explaining why, or how they are working to fix the problem.

We've since started replacing our Vimeo videos with YouTube, since it's more reliable for business needs.

Date of experience: May 7, 2016
Florida
3 reviews
40 helpful votes
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Bad customer support
September 20, 2023

I was using Vimeo for quite some time and I got some technical issues with the app. I requested customer support in order to help me resolve the issues, but I received a support where few people are bouncing me back and forth with no result. I think that they don't have a know-how, so that is why I am still waiting for some developer to contact me. Waiting...

Date of experience: September 20, 2023
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I am a VIMEO premium member and have been for over 2 years now.
I have never had such poor service from a company ever.
I have had 3 major problems and never once have they addressed
My problems. This is the worst company ever, looking to leave them this week.
When you try to get help, you get this link with three options, none of which apply to anything.

Date of experience: June 12, 2022
California
18 reviews
23 helpful votes
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FIND ANOTHER PROVIDER
March 17, 2022

Worst customer response time possible -- they will get back to me WEEKS LATER to say they know there's been a long delay and they hope my questions have been answered. They don't even bother to answer the questions. In addition to this, they charge me almost twice as much as the site clearly indicates I should be paying -- and I can't reach them so there is no way to clarify. I could not trust Vimeo less. I would just look for another provider. I need to do the same.

Date of experience: March 17, 2022
Indiana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Bait and Switch
July 27, 2021

This company is dispicable, They waited until I had a large library up and offered to my customers then told me I had to pay thousands more or they would cut me off in under 2 weeks. Stay as far from them as you can.

Date of experience: July 27, 2021
Louisiana
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Video purchased
January 17, 2019

I purchased a video good for 1 year september 2018. When I tried to access the video in January 2019, I was alerted to purchase again. After 2 weeks back and forth with vimeo, I got no where, extremely frustrating! Personally, I dont have a positive recommendation. Vimeo has no contact number. They only use email. After sending them screen shots, I still felt I was talking to the wall. Vimeo still did not get the entire issue after 2 weeks of emails. Not worth working with them.

Date of experience: January 16, 2019
Iowa
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Charged anyway
May 10, 2020

I signed up for free trial. Made sure to go into billing and shut off renewal but they did it anyway costing me $245 for something I don't use. It is not user friendly. I tried to contact them but just get thrown into a loop FAQ.

Date of experience: May 10, 2020
Chile
5 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Bought 2 animation series on January 2018 and the account of the creator was terminated by Vimeo, without warning me about the deleted content and refusing refunds (45 USD).
It's not a reliable source, since it left you without what you paid for without warning.

Date of experience: December 27, 2018
Washington
1 review
9 helpful votes
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SCAMMERS AND LIARS
September 3, 2019

The absolute WORSE video hosting site I have ever experienced with.

They made some bs emailing saying I have to upgrade my account or it'll be deleted. So much for "free"

Then they deleted my account for adult content?! Never have any sort of "adult content". I lost ALL of my videos and work. Absolutely do not use this site.

Date of experience: September 3, 2019
Brazil
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Vimeo censors art claiming to be pornography, but supports sex, pornographic and explicit videos on its platform.

They are censoring a series of video arts that question the power and cultural structure under the female body, it is a work of art and criticism, done with glitch, that is, it is not possible to see anything, however, give a quick search: https://vimeo.com/search/group/page:2?q=porn there are hundreds of really explicit videos!

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Freedom of speech
November 21, 2018

This site seems to be persuaded by a external force to delete any account it is asked to. Was watching news about middle eastern affairs and how countries are dominating others with real journalism and now this account can not be found.

Date of experience: November 21, 2018
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Refund
September 19, 2023

We stop using Vimeo months ago… They hit my account without my permission… They refused to contact me… they are impossible to contact… no live person to talk too… Why would a billion dollar company refuse to reimburse $900 to a struggling Ministry… It sad and unprofessional…I will not recommend this company to anyone…

Date of experience: September 19, 2023

Overview

Vimeo has a rating of 1.9 stars from 192 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Vimeo most frequently mention customer service, anti war and pro account. Vimeo ranks 298th among Videos sites.

service
40
value
39
shipping
18
returns
22
quality
32