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“The important thing is the desire of the creators to continue to want to work with us and our ability to recoup and make margins on the investments in our programming,” Toles says. With all of these sites growing and many of them keeping their metrics to themselves, defining success can sometimes be murky, but Toles says that each of the three originals they have released so far has exceeded financial expectations. They can also pay a bit extra and buy the movies instead of renting them. Instead of paying $10 a month for YouTube Red in perpetuity, users only pay for the shows or movies that they want to see, usually in the neighborhood of $5-$10, depending on the budget and length of the program. The other differentiation between the two, and something that sets Vimeo apart from every other streaming service, is that it is not subscription-based. Walmart is apt for YouTube, which has nearly 170m unique views a month, according to ComScore, whereas Vimeo clocks nearly 45m. Toles likens Vimeo to Bloomingdales and YouTube to Walmart. They’re targeted to the young teenage girl whereas our audience is used to high-quality productions and pushing the envelope.” “I think YouTube has really leaned on kids shouting at the camera and makeup tips and tricks. “I think tactically it’s similar but the kind of creators we have and the kind YouTube has is where the differentiation comes from,” Toles says. So far, neither YouTube nor Vimeo can compete with the $6bn that Netflix says it will spend on original content in 2016. Vimeo, which is owned by digital giant IAC, is investing between $10m and $12m a year on making its own content. YouTube Red, which launched in February, is very similar to what Vimeo is trying to do, but on a larger scale. Google’s YouTube is following a similar path to Vimeo, giving some of their best creators money to make original programming and charging viewers to watch it. There have been two other original releases: Darby Forever, a short by Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant, and Rolodex of Hate, a standup special by RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio.

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Its first show, High Maintenance, another critical darling with a cult following, is now being made into a series for HBO. So far, Vimeo has an excellent track record with its original programing, as modest as the number of offerings has been. They’re targeted at young teenage girls whereas our audience is used to high-quality productions that push the envelope Vimeo's Sam Toles on YouTube The second season, which was funded by Vimeo, will premiere on Wednesday 30 March. The laziest way to describe it is as a gay version of Girls, but the series is actually much better and more nuanced than that.

Vimeo also announced the premiere date for the second season of The Outs, a popular and critically beloved web series that is currently available on the service. We really wanted to find a way to empower and to further their exposure and careers by investing in content from the community.” “The most important thing for us is to differentiate in the marketplace,” says Sam Toles, global head of content acquisition and distribution, about how they chose which projects to greenlight. This “organic” approach, with film-makers emerging from the site’s existing community, is a crucial element of Vimeo’s originals strategy. All of the principals of these projects have produced previous work that proved popular on Vimeo. There’s Lonely and Horny, a comedy series by former College Humor writer Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld about the indignities of modern single life Toro Y Moi: Live and In Concert, a recording of one of the chillwave artist’s gigs and Garfunkel and Oates: Trying to be Special, a musical comedy special by the ukulele-toting duo whose IFC show was cancelled last year. The site’s new projects include Wizard Mode, a feature-length documentary about an autistic child who became a pinball savant, inspired by a short that was popular on the service a few months back.

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