(To be completely accurate - Vimeo has more than likely been around for years, and I am just now discovering it. I spend most of my non-working time either with my new family or playing the sax, so I seem to be spending less and less time online as time goes on)
I've been playing around with this for about a week now and I like it a lot. There are several tiers of service, but the free level seems pretty robust - I got to create my own unique public-facing account URL, and I am allowed to upload my own thumbnails for videos that I post, a feature that is not currently available on YouTube.
Two more cool things I like about this site are the fact that there is almost NO ADVERTISING as far as I can see, and online community that exists features a wide mix of original material that is actually interesting.
So, as an experiment, I have gone ahead and published the final version of Girls Who Drink on the band's Vimeo account, a full month ahead of the official release date for YouTube. I am curious to see if I can actually drive any traffic to the new site using all of the NEW online publishing mechanisms that I have created, no less than EIGHTEEN accounts pumping advertising into the void!
In the end, I know that I will go back to working in advertising. In an age where you can't even give original music away for free, it is becoming apparent that this is the only way I am ever going to see any money at all for my creative efforts.
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