{"id":49328,"date":"2025-09-22T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49328"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:59:21","slug":"vimeo-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/vimeo-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/vimeo-1-38-billion-sale-end-of-an-era-254428.html\">Jamie Lang<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45209645\">Hacker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45197302\">News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/vimeo-1-38-billion-sale-end-of-an-era-254428.html\"><p>Vimeo, once the internet&rsquo;s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal. The sale, expected to close later this year, will end Vimeo&rsquo;s turbulent run as a public company.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari promised &ldquo;ambitious investments&rdquo; in Vimeo&rsquo;s future, citing enterprise video services and AI-enabled features. But given the company&rsquo;s track record &mdash; including significant staff cuts and restrictions at Evernote and WeTransfer &mdash; many in the creative community are skeptical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manton.org\/2025\/09\/16\/says-something-about-vimeos-decline.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.manton.org\/2025\/09\/16\/says-something-about-vimeos-decline.html\">\n<p>Says something about Vimeo&rsquo;s decline that I heard about them being acquired not from the tech news websites that I read all the time, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/vimeo-1-38-billion-sale-end-of-an-era-254428.html\">from Cartoon Brew<\/a> in my RSS reader[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/vimeo-returns-to-apple-tv\/\">Vimeo Returns to Apple TV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/meetup-and-iac-apps-acquired\/\">Meetup and IAC Apps Acquired<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/filmics-entire-staff-laid-off\/\">Filmic&rsquo;s Entire Staff Laid Off<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/10\/evernote-acquisition-and-layoffs\/\">Evernote Acquisition and Layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/vimeos-pivot\/\">Vimeo&rsquo;s Pivot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"vimeo-acquired-update-2025-11-05\">Update (<a href=\"#vimeo-acquired-update-2025-11-05\">2025-11-05<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@themoep\/115474387322154883\">jakob<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@themoep\/115474387322154883\">\n<p>PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"vimeo-acquired-update-2025-12-15\">Update (<a href=\"#vimeo-acquired-update-2025-12-15\">2025-12-15<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ednl\/115695732470259670\">ednl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ednl\/115695732470259670\">\n<p>This change came a few months ago, so must have been right after the acquisition, but apparently I hadn&rsquo;t visited Vimeo since: they now require age verification for all UK+EU visitors (or rather: logged-in users, and logged-out visitors of unrated\/mature videos&mdash;most videos are unrated). I can&rsquo;t make full sense of article 71 of the EU DSA immediately; it seems that there&rsquo;s a lot of &ldquo;it depends&rdquo; and  &#x336;V&#x336;i&#x336;m&#x336;e&#x336;o&#x336; Bending Spoons just went with a blanket requirement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/29\/imgur-blocks-uk-users-over-age-verification\/\">Imgur Blocks UK Users Over Age Verification<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"vimeo-acquired-update-2026-01-22\">Update (<a href=\"#vimeo-acquired-update-2026-01-22\">2026-01-22<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46707699\">Daemon404<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46707699\">\n<p>Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As expected. Almost the whole company is gone, less than 15 people left in engineering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lang (Hacker News): Vimeo, once the internet&rsquo;s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal. The sale, expected to close later this year, will end Vimeo&rsquo;s turbulent run as a public company.[&#8230;]Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari promised &ldquo;ambitious investments&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-09-22T20:24:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"5c59c203-a3bf-44f2-96e2-83632ad7e222","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-22T19:59:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXFnCA6O_RPKW4oNjKtfiIg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,1650,1968,97,1685,96],"class_list":["post-49328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-children","tag-layoffs","tag-video","tag-vimeo","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50772,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328\/revisions\/50772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}