Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Employees, Allegedly Contains ‘the Whole Video Crew’

Vimeo simply bought hit by one other spherical of layoffs, and it sounds prefer it was an enormous one.

Business Insider reported earlier this week that the video internet hosting web site had lower jobs throughout its world workforce.

“Yesterday, following Vimeo’s current acquisition by a personal fairness agency, I realized that I, together with a big portion of the corporate, was impacted by layoffs,” wrote the corporate’s former vp of International Model & Inventive, Dave Brown, in a post on LinkedIn.

A software program engineer mentioned in their very own LinkedIn post that they had been laid off together with a “gigantic quantity of the corporate.” And a former Vimeo staffer additionally posted on X that “nearly everybody at Vimeo was laid off,” together with your complete video crew.

The information comes simply months after the Italian tech holding firm Bending Spoons purchased Vimeo for $1.38 billion final 12 months. Vimeo had beforehand cut its workforce by 10% in September.

Based in 2004, only one 12 months earlier than YouTube, Vimeo has positioned itself as a premium different for video internet hosting, focusing extra on skilled creators and companies than viral content material.

In 2020, Vimeo started leaning extra closely into AI-powered instruments after buying Magisto, introducing automated video enhancing options. Extra just lately, the corporate has continued to embrace AI. Final 12 months, it rolled out options that use AI to look via video libraries, permitting customers to shortly discover particular moments utilizing key phrase searches.

“We’re attempting to make AI extra helpful to the creator and the viewer,” Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer told NYNext on the time. “Our objective is to chop via the noise, to be the platform of belief.”

Vimeo’s AI instruments additionally let customers translate and dub movies in addition to edit footage by deleting phrases straight from a transcript.

Whereas it’s tempting to hyperlink Vimeo’s AI push to the layoffs, the precise cause is probably going less complicated. Actually, Vimeo’s share value practically doubled towards the top of final 12 months after it announced tools that might assist weed out AI slop.

Bending Spoons, in the meantime, has developed a status for purchasing tech corporations previous their peak and aggressively reducing prices. The agency acquired Evernote in 2022, adopted by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025. Layoffs adopted lots of these offers. In September 2024, simply months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.

“I can verify {that a} layoff was introduced at Vimeo on January 20, 2026. To respect the privateness of these departing, we can not present extra particulars at the moment,” a Bending Spoons spokesperson instructed Gizmodo in an emailed assertion. “Going ahead, Bending Spoons stays dedicated to rising Vimeo to fulfill the wants of its various person base.”

Vimeo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Gizmodo.