Vimeo köper företagen Wibbitz och Wirewax
Videoplattformen Vimeo har köpt startupen Wibbitz som ligger bakom en AI-baserad plattform för att skapa korta videoklipp. Det rapporterar Techcrunch. Vimeo har även lagt vantarna på bolaget Wirewax, som ligger bakom teknologi som gör det möjligt att på ett enkelt sätt länka objekt i videoklipp till externa sajter, och som bland annat kan användas för att skapa shoppinglänkar till produkter.
Vimeo uppger att båda företagen kommer att fortsätta bedriva sina respektive verksamheter och att man på sikt planerar att integrera vissa av funktionerna med sin egen tjänst.
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Vimeo, Inc. () is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices. Vimeo's business model is through software as a service (SaaS). They derive revenue by providing subscription plans for businesses and video content producers. 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. As of 2021, the site has 200 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services.
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. 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. 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 spun off Vimeo as a standalone public company in May 2021.
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