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Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News
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Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem. I don't think they will loose much sleep over this.
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.
Vimeo is the backend, not the platform.
But they won't be asked to replatform. Dropout have their own website. Them changing service provider should be mostly invisible to consumers.
I'm sure it'll be noticeable, but Dropout could market it as a fancy new update/UI. Users definitely aren't going to have to migrate anywhere.