

As CollegeHumor was drawing in audiences, Vimeo was put to the side while Lodwick and Klein focused on supporting the main CollegeHumor site. The name Vimeo was created by Lodwick as a play on the words video and me. The idea for a video-sharing site was inspired after CollegeHumor received a large number of views from a posted video clip of the October 2004 Saturday Night Live show that included Ashlee Simpson's infamous lip-syncing incident. Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by Connected Ventures, the parent company of the humor-based website CollegeHumor, as a side project of web developers Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein to share and tag short videos with their friends. Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein, founders of Vimeo History Initial growth from CollegeHumor (2004–2009) IAC spun off Vimeo as a standalone public company in May 2021.

Lodwick and Klein eventually left by 2009, and IAC implemented a more corporate-focused structure to build out Vimeo's services, with current CEO Anjali Sud having been in place since July 2017. IAC acquired CollegeHumor and Vimeo in 2006, and after Google had acquired YouTube for over US$1.65 billion, IAC directed more effort into Vimeo to compete against YouTube, focusing on providing curated content and high-definition video to distinguish itself from other video sharing sites. The site was initially built by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in 2004 as a spin-off of CollegeHumor to share humor videos among colleagues, though put to the side to support the growing popularity of CollegeHumor. As of December 2021, the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services. Vimeo provides its subscribers with tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting, enterprise software solutions, as well as the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. They derive revenue by providing subscription plans for businesses and video content producers. Vimeo's business model is through software as a service (SaaS). Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices.

( / ˈ v ɪ m i oʊ/ ) is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City.
