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I looked up the video. I wasn't mortified by its content - I've seen much worse in popups before I switched to Google Chrome - but rather, like Chris/OP, by its inclusion in what I had gathered is a professional environment. There are innumerable places on the internet for that kind of baseless garbage. Either Vimeo is modifying what they are as a video host, or they are too afraid of getting involved with "grey" areas and risking upsetting customers.


Egg Born Son said:
Perhaps rather than referring them to your vimeo channel you could embed your videos in a webpage of your own and direct them to that? That way you can control the content of your site.
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This seems like a very good idea.
 
What about a Vimeo Pro account, where you get full control of the interface, so clients can be "locked in" to your content, and you can build multiple interfaces to display your content in different ways.

Yes it's not free, but $200 per year isn't much to host your business portfolio.
 
TheDingo said:
What about a Vimeo Pro account, where you get full control of the interface, so clients can be "locked in" to your content, and you can build multiple interfaces to display your content in different ways.

Yes it's not free, but $200 per year isn't much to host your business portfolio.
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I have a "Plus" account but the issue is, I can't just simply say to someone "Go look up my work on Vimeo," if this crap exists and might show up.

I've decided to use a video hosting platform that is without the nebulous "community" aspect. I mean, I'm not averse to sites that allow gay men to identify other gay men they want to have sex with, but I don't want to be associated with these sites, thank you.



Jordan Scott Price said:
I looked up the video. I wasn't mortified by its content - I've seen much worse in popups before I switched to Google Chrome - but rather, like Chris/OP, by its inclusion in what I had gathered is a professional environment. There are innumerable places on the internet for that kind of baseless garbage. Either Vimeo is modifying what they are as a video host, or they are too afraid of getting involved with "grey" areas and risking upsetting customers.
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I was not "mortified." It's not about ME so much as it's about who and what I want to be associated with. I've seen all manner of crazy stuff online and it doesn't faze me. At least YouTube tries to "keep it clean." These guys at Vimeo see nothing wrong with that garbage and that's a problem.


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Vimeo is video + you. We put your videos first and give you the best ways to share, discover, and be inspired.


Yep. "Be inspired."
 
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Okay, after seeing as much as 3 seconds of that video I stand by everything I've said. Totally inappropriate for these venues. As for the rest of it? Naw, 3 seconds of that **** is enough for me!
 
Chris Santucci said:
I have a "Plus" account but the issue is, I can't just simply say to someone "Go look up my work on Vimeo," if this crap exists and might show up.
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...But I am pretty sure you can lock your clients completely out of the rest of Vimeo buy using a custom interface that you put together using the Vimeo Pro features. I think you can even incorporate this into your own custom URL address, so your client never sees or hears about anything to do with Vimeo at any point. As far as your client knows, Vimeo does not exist.
 
TheDingo said:
...But I am pretty sure you can lock your clients completely out of the rest of Vimeo buy using a custom interface that you put together using the Vimeo Pro features. I think you can even incorporate this into your own custom URL address, so your client never sees or hears about anything to do with Vimeo at any point. As far as your client knows, Vimeo does not exist.
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If I say to someone "Look me up on Vimeo," that's the end of it. They're ON Vimeo, regardless of whatever else I do. I do not want to ask people to go to Vimeo at this point, at all. I'm done with it.
 
I think it's time to stop saying, "Look me up on Vimeo". That's a very vague way to direct clients or potential clients anyway. Send them directly to your channel.

I agree with you that it's inappropriate, but I wouldn't just stop using the service because of it. Suppose that's just me.

Kegan
 
I have to agree with Chris, I went to the page of the poster, and every vid was of naked guys, one guy had ejaculated on his phone, and holding it up to the camera. Thats straight up classless. My friend and I were talking about how we thought vimeo has gone to shite anyways, then this, uhhh

If this is what Vimeo has become I to will be closing my account too, If Vimeo is going to let people post garbage like this, I say boycott vimeo all together.
 
Gary Huff said:
And go where exactly?
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These are the platforms I've researched and I may settle on the first one as the 2nd and 3rd are a bit pricey:

http://sproutvideo.com/
http://www.brightcove.com/
http://www.viddler.com/

Then of course there's more:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vid...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a



Kegan said:
I think it's time to stop saying, "Look me up on Vimeo". That's a very vague way to direct clients or potential clients anyway. Send them directly to your channel.

I agree with you that it's inappropriate, but I wouldn't just stop using the service because of it. Suppose that's just me.

Kegan
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The point is that it's even there in the first place and they see nothing wrong with it. It's porn, pure and simple and not at all what I ever expected to see on there. They like to project an image of being a community of artists and working professionals and THAT somehow just doesn't jibe to my mind.

And as a consumer, I'm violently opposed to it and I intend to exploit a more suitable avenue rather than contribute to it and be complicit.
 
I'm glad you brought this up, Chris. I had kind of started to see a drift in Vimeo's professionalism. Perhaps, in the same way the video production world has exponentially ballooned with so many people buying DSLR's and calling themselves DP's, Vimeo's customer base has swollen with classless idiots with nothing better to do than masturbate on their iPhone.
 
Jordan Scott Price said:
I'm glad you brought this up, Chris. I had kind of started to see a drift in Vimeo's professionalism. Perhaps, in the same way the video production world has exponentially ballooned with so many people buying DSLR's and calling themselves DP's, Vimeo's customer base has swollen with classless idiots with nothing better to do than masturbate on their iPhone.
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Yeah, now essentially everyone on the planet has a device that functions as a video camera and it seems WAY too many people feel like the world needs to partake of their idle thoughts and provocations. I used to hate YouTube, but now it's looking like the hero in all this because they at least try to keep it clean and I think that's a necessary thing because when people can anonymously post video - anything goes, and I'm just not interested in "anything."

Decorum, manners, etiquette, and "class" are sorely missing in society these days and seem to have been displaced (more and more) with the pursuit of "freedom" to "express" ones self.

And I'm not anything like a prude - I just think there's a time and place for everything and having an innocuous "community" vibe as Vimeo purports to have kind of seems a bit off when they allow that crap to exist on there.
 
I agree vimeo has really gone downhill. I feel like I used to see some cool things on my front page, and now its just endless variations of fashion videos shot with a DSLR naked handheld, hunting for focus with some crap house music blasting.

Oh and insert Old man yells at cloud.jpg here.
 
Just flag the videos; and contact the mods on vimeo directly. Unlike Youtube, vimeo is not a faceless monolithic company; there are people there in the forums all the time that work there and you can easily contact them. Most of those guys are passionate about the art of video much the same as you are. Talk to them and let them know that you think the site is being dumbed down by this stuff; and maybe they will change it.

But yeah; a PLUS account will allow you to separate all your content from the community aspect of vimeo if you want to.
 
Chris Santucci said:
and it seems WAY too many people feel like the world needs to partake of their idle thoughts and provocations.
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To quote Robin Williams talking about smoking pot with his buddies before the advent of social media, "I used to have inane conversations, too, but I didn't feel the need to share them with the world."



Chris Santucci said:
Decorum, manners, etiquette, and "class" are sorely missing in society these days and seem to have been displaced (more and more) with the pursuit of "freedom" to "express" ones self.
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Hit the nail on the head with that one. I point to poor parenting leading to generations of kids with entitlement philosophies, but that is tangential to politics, so I won't get into it on this forum :)
 
Chris Santucci said:
THIS is not just "nudity." Not by a longshot. I think I have just discovered the need to utilize a more "sanitary" platform for my work online, that's all.
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Whether 'nudity' or whatever exists on Vimeo, or Youtube for that matter, I think you should create your own 'portal' to these sites if that's where it is 'cheapest' to store and stream your content.

There are any number of possible scenarios where a potential customer, or a customer, 'sees' something that they do not like and then transfer that dislike to your work.

With 'free' services... there is a 'price'... I think Vimeo is feeling the effects of the more popular Youtube, in terms of having viewers 'driven' to the site... and so there may be other content which does get more viewers, but may offend someone.

This is the reason why when the Wife was active in photography, we had either our 'own' site, or had a photo service site for our customers to view their wedding proofs... rather than the embryonic 'Flickr'... or whatever... yes it cost... but the consequences of some 'uptight' mother or mother-in law... heck even some brides... seeing something they didn't like having nothing to do with the proof album... was too great a risk.

I personally am not 'offended' by sexual or non-sexual nudity... but that doesn't mean I think it is appropriate for a business to have to compete with such material... unless one is in the business of making porn... and even then... who needs the competition... in that case you want your customers to see your porn, not someone else's...
 
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BTW, if people are simply after a low cost way to host their videos and are prepared to do a little bit of work to put them online, the cheapest route by far is to buy space with a reliable web hosting company and use Flash progressive download streaming.

I have a GRID server account with MediaTemple.net which provides 100 GB of storage and 1,000 GB of bandwidth each month for $20 per month. For comparison SproutVideo provides 25 GB of storage and 25 GB of bandwidth for $25 per month.

To stream a Flash encoded video I use the excellent Proxus Flash Player player which is free for the standard player, or you can purchase it as a Flash component for $45 and then have a Flash developer customize the player for you. This player has a huge range of built-in customizable options.

The only issue with Flash is that Apple iPhones/Tablets ( and some Android devices ) do not support Flash playback, so you would have to look at a different streaming video playback option like HTML 5 video.

Going this route you would have to hire a web developer to create the interface for your site, but it's your site, so you can do whatever you like, and your clients will never see anything but your work.
 
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