Comments on: Would You Pay To Watch Select Vimeo Content?

By: RUSS

RUSS — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:17:00 +0000

nope. wouldn’t pay. would just watch something else.

By: DafOwen

DafOwen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:14:00 +0000

I don’t begrudge movie makers the opportunity to make some money back from their creations.

However being a technical/camera geek type – I think the most likely types of films I’d pay for would be instructional – think your Kelby training, JoeyL, Zack Arias, CreativeLive types – BUT most of those already have a system in place and are quite expensive (for me).
Maybe smaller videos so they would be cheaper.

I also think the Tips Jar is an Ok idea. But to give I think I’d have to find something really quite special. Cue tipping discussion scene in reservoir dogs.
Creative pieces are more likely to benefit from tips than fees.

I think taking 15% is a bit high – I would have expected 5-10% at most.

By: Jens Marklund

Jens Marklund — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:37:00 +0000

Maybe a good way for small budget stuff to get distribution, like that timelapse movie, or tutorials that regularly costs money. Instead of dealing with buying a physical copy, or download off the production company, this could maybe be their place.

But I feel like a lot of people will think they can make millions off this, and it will result in no one watching their videos. Maybe it would be easier if you could see the first 5 min for free?

By: Frank Schophuizen

Frank Schophuizen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:50:00 +0000

I would not pay to watch it. I would just simply skip the pay-per-view videos. As a result, I would also skip the advertisements, so for advertisers it will become less attractive to advertise on pay-per-view videos.

I think people will also move away from Vimeo to another (free to publish, free to watch) provider. And advertisers will probably move to the crowd also.

And Vimeo? They will cash some money, then sell Vimeo to Google or Facebook and cash some more.

By: Ajodeit

Ajodeit — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:56:00 +0000

It would seem as though this would suddenly cause a lot of vimeo content to be only available though a pay per view. So the quantity of quality free content maybe be reduced signifcantly. I think they should find a more clever less imposing way of making money on their website or ways of slowly intergrating pay content without affecting the free content.

Maybe they could have some kind of Early Access system where videos are only available through pay to view system for a length of time or until some amount of views is made. Then it reverts into free content.

How about intergrating a version of Kickstarter just for video production? They could make money on videos before they are even made and have the content available for free.