As of October 2017 Vimeo Basic accounts can no longer see the very basic statistics that were once on offer to those who didn't have a paid-for account. It is the latest in a long list of features Vimeo has been stripping away from its basic users, in order to force people to subscribe to premium accounts.
Vimeo once had a reputation as a classier cousin to Youtube or Dailymotion, a home for creatives which "puts video first" as their slogan states. By slowly stripping away functionality from non-paid for users they are showing themselves to be just another profit hungry corporation - and the atmosphere of a well curated site run specifically for creatives begins to look like hollow elitism from a site that has barely a thirtieth of the number of users as Youtube.
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