<story><title>Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>117 subscriber-only videos ... around 150 views on average ... 815 for the most viewed.&lt;p&gt;so &amp;quot;bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users&amp;quot; says they have &lt;i&gt;no audience&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;no traffic&lt;/i&gt;, doesn&amp;#x27;t it? The whole platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>Her videos seem to be fairly long (multiple-hour) art tutorials, so back of the envelope suggests that for most users, monthly delivery costs from a straight CDN (based on 24 months, four hours per video, 1080p quality, per-GB CDN price at $0.05) is going to be somewhere around $300&amp;#x2F;month, or basically dead-on to the $3,500&amp;#x2F;year they&amp;#x27;re asking for.&lt;p&gt;Now, Vimeo&amp;#x27;s own delivery pricing is far below that -- perhaps an order of magnitude less -- but for most people there aren&amp;#x27;t going to be better pricing options for long-form video content of this sort.</text></comment>
<story><title>Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>117 subscriber-only videos ... around 150 views on average ... 815 for the most viewed.&lt;p&gt;so &amp;quot;bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users&amp;quot; says they have &lt;i&gt;no audience&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;no traffic&lt;/i&gt;, doesn&amp;#x27;t it? The whole platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanyz</author><text>Can say that we are seeing a lot of these customers reach out to us at Swarmify and many of them are similar size. It doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like they should be anywhere close to &amp;quot;top 1% of users&amp;quot; at Vimeo.</text></comment>