Hopefully, though, the new policy should at least make it so creators don’t have to scramble to lower their bandwidth use or find a new way to host their videos in just a few days. In other words, if creators had to pay more under the old rules, it’s very possible they’d still have to with the new guidelines.
Vimeo’s post, written by its CEO, is very apologetic in tone it even opens with an image of a bouquet of flowers, the universal sign for “I messed up, please forgive me.” But it’s worth noting that these changes won’t necessarily make Vimeo a better option for the creators that were hit with high prices by the legacy policy - Vimeo told The Verge in a previous statement that the “top 1 percent” threshold was already around 2 or 3TB a month. These policies make Vimeos easier to understand, but not necessarily better for some use cases One creator didn’t realize they were actually uploading to Vimeo when they uploaded videos to Patreon until all those videos disappeared. They were also surprised that Vimeo was demanding thousands of dollars more a year if they wanted to keep using the service in the way they had been. (Videos can still eat up a lot of bandwidth even with a small number of views - there’s a lot of data that needs to be transferred if 10 people watch an hour-long concert in 4K.) Many of the creators were paying hundreds of dollars a year so they could use Vimeo to host videos for Patreon, and were shocked due to how few views their content received.
Under the old policy, several creators say they received messages from the platform saying they were using too much bandwidth, and were at risk of having to leave the platform. Vimeo estimated that his costs would go from $900 a year to $3,000 a year - that’s a lot of cash to come up with in just over a week.
#Vimeo plans upgrade#
Under the old rules, one creator told The Verge he was given nine days to upgrade his account, decrease his usage, or have access to his videos disrupted. Vimeo’s new policies also say that creators will have “a minimum of 30 days” to reply to Vimeo and work out a deal if they are over that cap, and that nothing will happen to their content during that time. Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars - or leave the platform
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