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On September 10, 2025, Vimeo confirmed its sale to Italian tech company Bending Spoons. In response to the buy-out, S/W co-founder and former head of Vimeo Staff Picks, Jason Sondhi, offers his perspective on the acquisition and explores what the change could mean for Vimeo’s future and its community of users. It feels out of the blue, yet makes total sense. While the Vimeo of the 2010s, the beloved video platform/community of choice for the global creative class, has been gone for a while, the slow-dawning realization of this reality by filmmakers has overshadowed the fact that the business itself has been in freefall post-COVID. Vimeo was spun out of IAC as a public company in 2021 at a valuation of $8.5B. It is now being taken private again by the Italian company Bending Spoons for just $1.38B. Even that number represents a premium of 91% over Vimeo’s 60-day, volume-weighted average share price. I don’t want to go over the timeline, but I thought that this post, while hyperbolic in that LinkedIn sort of way, does a phenomenal job of laying out the key pivot points that, over the past decade, led Vimeo to this spot. So, who is Bending Spoons? It’s a

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Vimeo, the long-standing video hosting and streaming platform, is set to transition into private ownership following a definitive acquisition agreement with Bending Spoons, a European tech company known for its portfolio of productivity and media platforms, including Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, and Brightcove. Under the terms of the deal, Bending Spoons will acquire 100% of Vimeo’s outstanding shares in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.38 billion. Shareholders will receive $7.85 per share, a significant premium over Vimeo’s closing price of $4.82 on the day prior to the announcement. The stock surged following the news. The Vimeo board of directors has unanimously approved the acquisition, which is expected to be finalized by the end of the calendar year, subject to standard closing conditions, shareholder approval, and regulatory clearance. Once considered a creative alternative to YouTube, Vimeo has evolved considerably over its two-decade history. Originally popular among independent filmmakers and artists for its high-quality video hosting, the platform has pivoted toward serving enterprise clients, offering tools for video marketing, virtual events, and internal communications. Vimeo has also taken a firm stance on content protection and data privacy, explicitly prohibiting the scraping of hosted videos or the use of its content for training generative

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