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Vimeo Launches Vimeo Plus – Annual Paid Plans
NY-based video sharing service Vimeo has announced the launch of Vimeo Plus today. Vimeo Plus is a paid service that offers additional benefits over the free service. NewTeeVee has a good overview of all of the features of Vimeo Plus which include: $59.95/yr, no ads, more uploads per week, priority uploading and some HD features.
Rick Turoczy at RWW wonders if Vimeo can convert their loyal users into paying customers. He points to Flickr as an example although he says that $60/yr is "nominal" – I’d say up to $30 is nominal, over that is a much bigger buying decision. I do think this is an excellent test for the overall industry.
Viddler has introduced a number of new features that they could have charged a small amount for.
I hope Vimeo has included a Plus badge – I still believe that there is a social factor with badges – you don’t want to be the only one in your circle without the Flickr Pro badge.
[...] you upgrade to a Vimeo Plus account, the source files will be stored as long as you are a pro member. Vimeo notes that they [...]
Fair point. $5/month struck me as nominal given the feature set.
Isn’t $5 what you pay for a cup of coffee in the city? ;)
I agree – $60 is pretty cheap for all the added features you are getting.
I am happy to pay this amount.
I agree – I also think a year is a long time!
My own observation is more people are paying to have that PRO badge and never need that storage/bandwidth on Flickr!
$60 is definitely a steep price to be charging, based on current status of economy and Vimeo’s share of the video-sharing pie.
Yeah! $5 a month or even $15 a quarter sounds more reasonable than $60 a year. Plus they gotta throw Flash Player 10 support into the mix cuz as of today, their video upload still doesn’t work with the new Flash player!!
PS. Just sent you 2 emails. I think this is worth a story on CenterNetworks!