Vimeo is the most classy video sharing website on the entire internet. It simply outclasses YouTube in every sense. Vimeo, which is literally the word ‘video’ with ‘me’ stuffed in the middle, launched in 2004. It actually does not compete directly with YouTube, where it puts in concentration on quality more than quantity, which in the latter’s case is vice-versa. Vimeo was created by creative individuals, film-makers and video creators who wanted to share their “creative work”.
The Vimeo homepage offers a great feeling in itself, being more about atracting casual passers-by than promoting content that’s hidden within it. Everything is categorized into its ‘Explore’ tab and its only a click away.
Vimeo isn’t the place to go if you are too much into the cats and dogs running on the treadmill stuff. Vimeo is more about classy short films, snapshots of interesting people’s interesting lives, experimental music videos, etc. The website has a 500mb upload limit per week, although this can be increased to 2gb by upgrading.
The best thing about Vimeo is its video player, which concentrates more on the video and less on the non-sense surrounding it.