Technology

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

What you lose is audience. People often aren't willing to replatform for a single creator.

I don't know about Floatplane or Nebula, but Dropout uses Vimeo as their back end. So this could impact some of the independent guys.

Floatplane too i guess.

Patreon seems like the most likely competitor. I think some content is now hosted directly there.

I doubt Vimeo was putting up numbers that actually competed, either, but it was there as an alternative.

We need a Peektube to accompany it

Companies that want control over their videos. I.e. not to have ads play, not to have their videos followed by suggested content that sends viewers to competitors, nor have that alternate content show when the UI is paused or interacted with. It also allows updating of videos (whereas YouTube makes you upload a new video and you loose all links or view stats/momentum from the switch)

Pretty popular among film students and indie filmmakers

Mainly creators of visual content from all backgrounds

That or they post them so they can say they did before promoting within, hiring based on nepotism, or to be able to do a H1B hire.

Not very often though.

Because they’ve titled their home page as such. Here’s what I see when I search.