“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."
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.
Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?
Edit: yes it is
that might age poorly
Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem.
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.
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.
Vimeo is the backend, not the platform.