Vimeo users can now more easily share their favorite videos with their connected social networks. The company on Thursday announced via the Vimeo blog that a slew of new social networking features have finally arrived.
Speaking of the sites new focus on social sharing VP of product and development Andrew Pile showed off the social video platforms new social options.
The first thing Vimeo users will notice is that they can now automatically link their Vimeo account to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Google+ accounts. According to Pile:
“Previously, connecting to Facebook and Twitter only published your likes. Now you can choose granular share settings for a whole plethora of actions including uploads, likes, comments, people you follow, adding videos to groups and channels, and more. On Facebook, you can even choose to publish to a Facebook page instead of your news feed.”
Vimeo also now allows for Facebook login which means users no longer need to connect via their Vimeo credentials during the sign in process. Facebook connect features have become commonplace for many web properties but are just now catching on at Vimeo.
The final new social feature is the ability to attribute videos to a users Google+ account which in turn should help with video SEO placement capabilities via Google.com.
Check out the new Vimeo social sharing and display features and let us know what you think.
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This is a great post, Jason. Thanks for that.
It really is good that Vimeo has introduced these new social sharing options so I can now automatically link my Vimeo account to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Google+ accounts, because I like Vimeo so much more than YouTube and now I can easily ‘spread the Vimeo-word’ around the social media world.