Just four months after Italian tech firm Bending Spoons completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of the pioneering video platform, as we were fearing just over a week ago, Vimeo has laid off what former employees describe as “almost everyone” at the company, including the entire video engineering team. The move follows a familiar pattern from Bending Spoons, which previously gutted the teams behind Filmic Pro, WeTransfer, and Evernote. For filmmakers and cinematographers who have relied on Vimeo for more than two decades as a premium alternative to YouTube, the news raises urgent questions about the platform’s future and the fate of countless portfolios, client projects, and the infrastructure powering services from the Criterion Channel to Dropout TV. What we know about the Vimeo layoffs Bending Spoons confirmed to multiple outlets that layoffs were announced at Vimeo on January 20, 2026. The company declined to specify how many employees were affected, citing privacy concerns. However, former staff members have painted a stark picture across LinkedIn and social media. Dave Brown, Vimeo’s former Vice President of Global Brand and Creative, wrote on LinkedIn that he was impacted along with “a large portion of the company.” Former software engineer Steve Dixon described being laid off alongside “a gigantic amount of the company.” Perhaps most tellingly, Derek Buitenhuis, a 13-year Vimeo veteran who had left in November, shared that “almost everyone” was terminated, “including the entire video team.” Multiple reports indicate more than 1,000 employees were affected globally, with Israeli outlet CTech reporting that...
Published By: CineD - Saturday, 24 January