Rushes Is a New Creator-Focused Vimeo Alternative | PetaPixel

U.K. filmmaker Guy Loftus has launched Rushes, stylized rushes, a new video hosting and sharing platform designed to fill the void left by a reshaped Vimeo. The platform is built by video creators, for video creators. The reason why there is even a void in the space for Rushes to fill is that Bending Spoons bought Vimeo last year for nearly $1.4 billion. As Bending Spoons has done with prior acquisitions, like Filmic, Vimeo was gutted a few months later. To be clear, Vimeo still exists, but there is uncertainty among what was once its core audience, filmmakers, about how useful the platform will be moving forward, given that Bending Spoons fired much of Vimeo’s staff and seems increasingly focused on enterprise applications and customers. In contrast, as CineD reports, Rushes aims to be a go-to place for individual filmmakers and small creative teams to host, share, and review videos. “Rushes is a community and video hosting platform — designed for filmmakers, by filmmakers,” the company explains. “We’re based in Europe, we’ll never let an AI train on your work and we aren’t an evil mega-corporation.” The Rushes team says it built the platform “because filmmakers deserve a space that
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