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Roku, the tiny set-top box with a lot of channels, gets one more improvement today. It's an important step in the battle with stiff competition from Apple TV, the recently improved Amazon Fire TV, and the forthcoming Android TV, to name only three. Now Vimeo is the latest to add just a bit more functionality to the Roku box. The streaming service is announcing a major improvement to its app -- the first major change since it was released back in 2011. "Roku provides an amazing set-top product for our users, and we really wanted to blow the Vimeo experience out of the water for our viewers", says Nick Alt, VP of Mobile and TV at Vimeo. "This latest app is part of our commitment to creators and ensuring their content is discoverable in the best possible ways, across many devices". The new Vimeo app has been completely rebuilt, and the service points out it didn't use the usual templates that many Roku app developers have utilized. The new version contains the most popular videos right on the homepage, and customers can also access staff picks and collections. In addition, the company states "the new app also makes it easier to access personalized video feeds (My Videos, Likes, Watch Later

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Subscribe to News - Industry Matt WhoisMatt Johnson’s video essay chronicles Vimeo’s acquisition by Bending Spoons, but the real story is how the platform systematically alienated its creator community years before the buyout: copyright purges, storage restrictions, and an enterprise pivot that abandoned the filmmakers who made Staff Picks a career launchpad. Has Vimeo betrayed filmmakers? Let’s dive into what happened. In a comprehensive video essay, filmmaker Matt WhoisMatt Johnson traces Vimeo’s arc from the pioneering HD video platform that launched countless careers to its November 2025 acquisition by Bending Spoons, an Italian tech company known for aggressively restructuring its acquisitions. Johnson’s documentary-style breakdown, embedded below, captures the emotional weight of watching a beloved platform decline. But the full story, supported by financial filings, acquisition documents, and industry analysis, reveals that Vimeo’s wounds were largely self-inflicted, and the Bending Spoons acquisition may be less a death sentence than a consequence of years of strategic drift. The golden era: when HD meant everything Johnson, who has been creating videos since 2006, recalls a time when Vimeo represented everything YouTube wasn’t. While Google’s platform was stuck at a nearly unwatchable 320 by 240 resolution, Vimeo offered 720p playback, a massive leap that

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