[tdeck]

I wonder why the likes of Vimeo and DailyMotion from a similar era never seemed to really make it.

[joseda-hg]

I remember going to daily motion spcifically to watch stuff that got DMCA'd out of youtube, the problem being I had no reason to stay there, the content was too sparse, even considering the amount of illegitimate content published

[keiferski]

Vimeo decided awhile ago that they weren’t going to be a “shareable video” platform. That, combined with their pretty user-hostile UI, has limited their growth.

My guess is that they looked at the costs of hosting trillions of hours of video and decided that only a corporate giant like Google would ultimately be able to afford it.

[nothercastle]

Their software experience was terrible as well. Real player type stuff. You only went there when you had no other option.