Comments on: Vimeo Is Not For Commercial Use

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:28:33 +0000

Getty run around charging people all the time for use of their images – it is quite possible there are other deals in place, but some people have been shut down over commercial use – it is a liability.
YouTube shut down users all the time as well.

By: Brent2

Brent2 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:41:54 +0000

It might be dangerous to try the $10/gig bandwidth charge thing. Essentially, there’s a point to where you can say “You’ve left the following dozen high profile, high bandwidth use, sites online. This is implicitly allowing your ToS to be violated.”

At the point where a bill for 50,000 shows up in a mailbox, don’t be surprised if a lawyer gets involved and drops the above. They may then have to back off, shut off and delete those accounts or just plain make any deals they have with them public.

Safer, really, to just hit the delete button. Safer for customers, obviously, to just use something like YouTube or your own hosting service.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:50:47 +0000

You really need to read the comments in the forum post I linked to – there really is no official exception to their commercial use clauses, you should pay for a real CDN

I am all for giving more than you receive & the primary use I would have for their service I wouldn’t even want the videos available to their community, just mine in private.

By: ForestWander Nature

ForestWander Nature — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:51:24 +0000

I think what their main concern is, for members to upload and generate interesting content.

So many people are turned off from ads and marketing that it simply makes a person sick.

But if you truly love what you do and what you do is something interesting then just promoting what you are doing through what you love will be acceptable.

For instance, I love nature photography and I have a commercial website that sells prints and digital downloads, etc.

However, I also give all of my pictures away for free and I publish free videos of our adventures in the mountains and forests.

If I were to upload a video that simply promoted my commercial site (which would be selfish and self centered) then I can understand why they would deny my video.

However, if I can upload something that will be somewhat entertaining, respecting the priviledge they have given me, then they will ikely publish it and just by it being published the content will attract visitors to my site and subsequent sales will eventually take place.

It seems that we all get too self centered at times and forget that every aspect of life is a give and take relationship.

Typically, the more that you give the more you will receive in return without expectations, simply believeing that by doing what is right and giving from the heart you will in the end receive reward.

By: Business Consulting Jaime Welsch

Business Consulting Jaime Welsch — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:54:10 +0000

I agree on your statement with regards to: “In this day and age it’s pretty much impossible to hold sacred and private commercial use anyway”. IMO, i believe they just don’t want their site to be over populated by “commercial videos” instead, they rather want to make it an all exclusive “personal home videos” for their community users.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:43:37 +0000

Hm, I don’t really see the problem with commercial videos, especially if the owner has granted consent for them to be spread. In this day and age it’s pretty much impossible to hold sacred and private commercial use anyway – bittorrent anyone? Also, what about companies such as DubLi.com who are relying on viral marketing to spread their message? These are commercial as such. And how about videos which don’t necessarily advertise, but instead have a short and amusing skit?

Questions, questions….

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:29 +0000

I quite agree, though the use I would primarily want Vimeo for would mean the content never appears on their site – I would just want their excellent video conversion and the ability to use a branded palyer on my site, virally and also behind locked doors.
You don’t need a video community to drive thousands of views with affiliates.

I will be writing about other options

By: Jeff Swanson

Jeff Swanson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:47:27 +0000

Vimeo is an awesome site and I think they should stick to what they do. They have a brand image in that way.

But what if you do have videos that you want to host somewhere that are either commercial or maybe borderline commercial – as in they don’t sell a product or service, but they are promoting a company just by the fact that they are educating people with how to articles, etc. Are their sites you’d recommend? YouTube?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:24:14 +0000

It is actually quite hard to find sites that have all Vimeo have to offer, especially if you are running a private members site and want to have videos kept private.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:57:08 +0000

Since Vimeo owns the site they should definitely be able to post their own terms for service. I’m sure they want to keep from being bombarded with video “spam”. As for those who want to commercialize their videos, there are numerous other options out there.

Has anyone else here tried Magnify.net? I did create a page on their site for some of my home business video tutorials for one of my sites.