HERES WHAT THEY SAID:
Goodbye for now
Vidme came a long way as an independent platform, but we couldn’t find a path to sustainability. We’re building something new.
After careful consideration, the Vidme team has arrived at the difficult decision to suspend the Vidme site and apps effective December 15th at noon PT. We’ll use this blog post to explain what this means for users, how we got here, and what’s next for us.
What this means for users New sign-ups and uploads will be disabled effective today. Existing videos will be playable and exportable from your video manager until December 15th at noon PT, at which point they will be permanently deleted from the Vidme servers. All paid channel subscripitions will be suspended immediately, and subscriber-only videos will be exclusively accessible by their video owners. Any outstanding earnings will be paid out upon verification within 60 days. All Vidme paid subscriptions will cease as of today, and subscribers will no longer be billed.
Please see our FAQ for more details, and email us at hello@vid.me with any questions.
Why we started Vidme
We started Vidme (initially Viddme, before we could afford the shorter domain) in 2014 with the mission of helping the next generation of entertainers find their audience and earn a living.
At the time, YouTube was the only major platform that provided revenue sharing — a system which often neglected creators with small or niche audiences.
We were confident we could create a new type of video platform — one that was more community-oriented, more transparent, and more equitable to creators. Inspired by reddit’s crowd curation, we also saw an opportunity to improve the experience for both viewers and curators by allowing the community to surface trending content.
Given the large market opportunity (video ad spend is $84B in the US alone), and the impending shift from linear television viewing towards digital video, we believed that we could create a sustainable platform to accomplish these goals.
What we accomplished
Vidme’s first feature was a one-step video publishing tool: simply drag-and-drop your file and Vidme would generate a shortlink to your video that you could share anywhere, no account required.
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