Vimeo, the business-focused video sharing and internet hosting platform, is bringing again its Apple TV app after ending assist for all of its TV apps in 2023. Whereas the corporate hasn’t been making an attempt to be a YouTube competitor for some time, TV apps have been at all times extra handy than Vimeo’s proposed answer of casting video from a smartphone or pill.
The rebuilt Vimeo Apple TV app enables you to entry Vimeo’s curated library of Workers Picks, your private library of uploaded movies and something you have saved to your watchlist to look at later. Vimeo additionally says the app helps “enhanced playback with chapters, pace controls, and multi-language choices.” The app is on the market to obtain and check out now, supplied your Apple TV is working tvOS 18 or later and you’ve got a Free Vimeo account.
Vimeo initially pivoted away from being a direct YouTube competitor in 2017, a number of years earlier than it dropped assist for its apps. Since then the corporate has styled itself as extra of a enterprise service, offering a means for companies {and professional} creatives to host and promote movies, and even construct their very own streaming providers.
Spinning up a brand new TV app would not essentially imply Vimeo is altering methods, however for those who’ve received some pupil movies hanging out in an previous Vimeo account, you now have a a lot simpler technique to watch them at house.