Vimeo Launches Free Video Messaging Tool

By Annie Baker • Oct 29, 2020
  • Vimeo — one of the leading professional video platform and community — has launched Vimeo Record, a free video messaging tool for users to record their screen from their browser, share video messages, and exchange comments

Vimeo — one of the leading professional video platform and community — has launched Vimeo Record. Vimeo Record is a free video messaging tool that allows users to instantly record their screen from their browser, share video messages, and exchange comments and feedback — thus improving workplace collaboration and communication for distributed teams. And following the launch of Vimeo Enterprise last year, Vimeo Record further entrenches Vimeo as the preferred end-to-end video solution for teams and organizations including the 60% of Fortune 500 companies who already have a Vimeo account.

Video messaging gives teams a smarter and faster way to share information and collaborate — ranging from training and onboarding to reviewing product design to resolving support tickets, etc. And video is also proven to boost team productivity and engagement: Recent research from Vimeo and GlobalWebIndex shows that employees are 70% more engaged at work when their company uses video to communicate. Vimeo Record is part of a broader suite of tools designed that helps businesses communicate better with employees, customers and partners, including a team library to organize and showcase videos, review tools to collaborate on assets, and live streaming for company-wide events.

Vimeo has seen a major increase in demand for its video tools this year. And since the pandemic,  the company has scaled to over 200 million members around the world, revenue has grown 40-50% each month and Vimeo Enterprise accounts have grown over 500% with customers like Deloitte, CNBC, Lincoln Center, NYSE, and Zendesk.

KEY QUOTES:

“Nobody wants to write a long email or jump on another Zoom call to describe something you could show your colleague in 10 seconds. Sending a video message can provide the context and value of that interaction in a fraction of the time. As businesses adapt to distributed teams and different time zones, we see a unique opportunity to leverage our years of video expertise and unmatched scale to get a free video messaging tool in the hands of over 1 billion knowledge workers globally. This is an exciting step in our strategy to bring the power of video to every workplace.”

— Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo

“My team is using Vimeo Record to share product demos internally and to give our customers a preview of what’s launching soon. We love it! It adds a personal touch that you just can’t replicate with email or a chatroom message. I can definitely see video messaging becoming part of our everyday workflow at Mailchimp.”

— Trevor Wolfe, Director of Product Marketing at Mailchimp, a Vimeo Record beta user