Move your entire video library in under an hour
Vimeo enforces a 2 TB/month bandwidth cap on every self-serve plan. Exceed it twice in a year — or hit 10 TB once — and you are forced into an Enterprise contract. Teams report price hikes exceeding 900% with no warning, and videos held hostage until they pay.
Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for $1.38B in November 2025 and laid off the majority of staff — including the entire video team — in January 2026. This follows the same playbook used at WeTransfer: slash headcount, restrict free tiers, extract cash.
Vimeo holds a 1.4/5 on Trustpilot. Only 2% of callers report their issue resolved. Average hold times exceed 30 minutes, and users report being ghosted for weeks.
Essential capabilities like custom domains and advanced analytics are gated to higher plans. The interface changes frequently without improving, described by users as "a nightmare, messy, and unintuitive."
Before: bandwidth caps and surprise invoices. After: flat-rate plans with no overage charges and no forced upgrades.
Before: videos served from vimeo.com or a pricey add-on. After: every video delivered from your own custom domain at no extra cost.
Before: Vimeo branding on your player. After: a fully branded, lightweight HLS player with no third-party logos.
Before: manual download and re-upload. After: connect your Vimeo account and import your entire library in one step.
Go to your Vimeo library, select the videos you want to migrate, and use the download option to get your original source files. Alternatively, use the host.video Vimeo import — connect your Vimeo account and select the videos to pull directly.
Sign up for a free 14-day trial at host.video. No credit card required. Set up your organization and configure your custom domain.
Use the Vimeo direct import, drag-and-drop upload, or connect Google Drive, Dropbox, or S3. All uploads use the TUS protocol for resumable transfers — no re-uploading if your connection drops.
Replace Vimeo iframe embed codes with host.video embed codes on your website. Each video gets a unique embed snippet. If you use a CMS, a find-and-replace on the Vimeo player URL is usually sufficient.
Spot-check your pages to confirm playback, auto-generated thumbnails, and transcription. Once verified, cancel your Vimeo plan. Your host.video embeds are live on your domain with HLS adaptive streaming.
Existing Vimeo embed links will continue to work on Vimeo for as long as your Vimeo account remains active. host.video does not redirect old Vimeo URLs — you need to swap the embed codes on your site. The recommended approach is to run both in parallel: upload to host.video, update your embeds page by page, and only cancel Vimeo once every embed is replaced. For large sites, a simple search-and-replace of the Vimeo player domain in your CMS templates handles the bulk of the work.
Most teams complete the migration in under an hour. The Vimeo direct import handles the file transfer. The main time investment is updating embed codes on your site, which depends on how many pages you have.
Vimeo analytics stay in your Vimeo account as long as it is active. host.video starts tracking from the moment your new embeds go live. There is no way to import historical Vimeo analytics, so export any reports you need before canceling.
host.video has its own player with full color, logo, and controls customization. You will need to configure your player branding in host.video, but the process takes a few minutes from the dashboard.
host.video supports password protection, domain locking, and signed URLs. Re-apply your access settings after import — the controls are in the video settings panel.