![]() The cost of our Plus, PRO, Business, and Premium memberships covers the expenses of all of the services we provide, including feature development, uploading and conversion, video storage, and video playback. Vimeo, on the other hand, is a proudly ad-free and subscriber-supported video platform. To give you more background on our lapse rules, most video platforms that offer free storage are financially supported by in-stream advertising. You can restore all your videos by re-upgrading to any paid Vimeo membership tier. You can visit this page to see exactly what videos you lost access to when you downgraded to Basic. They will be stored there for up to one year, but are no longer viewable. Because you had videos that exceeded this limit, they were moved to our archives. ![]() If your paid Vimeo membership (Plus, PRO, Business or Premium) expires, you only keep the most recent 10GB of videos uploaded during your membership. “Thanks for reaching out about this, and I’m so sorry for any confusion. I contacted Vimeo about this, asking the reasons for deleting my videos which I uploaded while being in the paid membership category. In other words, I will have to continue paying to Vimeo to keep my videos alive on the platform. Vimeo’s statement above says that 30 percent of my videos are going to be deleted, because of the shift from Plus account to Basic account. ![]() And since the total storage limit for Basic accounts is 5GB, you also won’t be able to upload videos (unless you remove videos until you’re below the limit If your membership expires, you’ll only keep 10GB of videos you uploaded as a paid member. You have 14.2GB uploaded to your account. And since the total storage limit for Basic accounts is 5GB, you also won’t be able to upload videos (unless you remove videos until you’re below the limit).” Vimeo Basic account upload limitation Vimeo deletes videos So I asked Vimeo not to renew my Plus membership. That’s why I decided to downgrade my Plus account to Basic, and move to YouTube. However, as time went by, YouTube has risen above Vimeo in almost any aspect. Vimeo always seemed like the best platform for filmmakers regarding quality and prestigiousness. My account was under the Plus membership category, which means I have been paying Vimeo $8 per month since 2013. I have been a Vimeo loyal user for about six years. Vimeo platform From Plus to a Basic account This situation forced users to continue and pay to Vimeo to keep their videos alive. Vimeo’s users were surprised to discover that their videos were deleted after switching from Premium account to Basic account.
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