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Vimeo Bans Video Game Videos
NY-based video sharing service Vimeo has decided to no longer allow video game videos. In an announcement made yesterday on the Vimeo company blog, Blake Whitman noted that new videos will be removed and current videos are subject to deletion after September 1st.
Blake explains that there are two main reasons for the change. First, Vimeo is about creative expression and copying a video game isn’t creative expression. Second, the game videos are larger and longer than most other videos which causes their transcoder to push long wait times for other Vimeo members. I’ve noticed this wait on Viddler as well and from what I understand on Viddler it has to do with non-U.S. show content.
There are nearly 500 replies on the Vimeo blog discussing the change - most are for the change. Apparently YouTube also bans these type of video game videos. The big question in the forums is what specific videos will be deleted and which will remain. Apparently it will have a lot to do with what the staff call "creative merit".
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It just sounds so elitist, I mean, people can bag on game videos, and others can bag on lip-dubs. I actually CHOSE Vimeo because it appeared to be snootier than YouTube, which is what I was looking for… and that ‘game videos are longer by nature’ line? Come on, we could say ‘Scoble videos are longer by nature’… Basically, it’s a subjective call, and I’d be more worried about their scalability.
Their company tone in the comments has really been giving me the heebie jeebies. I dunno. We are customers that are basically leaving or getting fired or something.
I’ve said many times that consumers choose what the purpose of a product is. Guy Kawasaki joked in a talk “oh god, the wrong people are buying our products in large quantities! quick, stop them!”.
I guess from a business perspective, vimeo have looked at what is their most important asset, and decided it was the ‘creative content’, versus other content that they now seem to have blocked. I would hazard a guess that users of any kind are vimeo’s main asset, and that this move may show a lack of understanding of the people that are actually using their service.
It matters not one dot who you want to use your service, try helping the people that do.