How to Migrate from Vimeo to LinqTV - Ultimate Vimeo Migration Checklist

You all must have heard the news that Bending Spoons is acquiring Vimeo for a whopping US$1.38 billion. Since Bending Spoons is acquiring Vimeo for a whopping US$1.38 billion, it is bound to reflect heavily on their customer base that relied on Vimeo for its video hosting services Users are searching for Vimeo migration. Therefore, if you are one of them, here is a checklist on how you can migrate to LinqTV One, one of the best OTT streaming and hosting software solutions, without losing any of your customers or data.

Nasdaq will soon delist Vimeo, and with new leadership comes new strategies that may not align with your business goals. In fact, if you feel that Vimeo will no longer be the same, you are not alone. Massive internal and external structural changes at Vimeo will affect thousands of customers. Users have started migrating, and depending on how you want to go ahead, you should also consider migration options.

Let’s admit migration is a tedious process. Moreover, from data to customers, it becomes difficult to manage how the migration process will add all the information, and it will be able to create a seamless experience for the end viewer.

LinqTV One handles your migration process, from how the migration happens, setting up of account to customer metadata, subscribers’ information, and everything else that is needed.  With LinqTV One, you can build fully functional OTT streaming apps and websites across 14+ ecosystems. Migration to LinqTV One means you are introduced to a world of possibilities and while maintaining all your hard work done at the Vimeo video platform.

We will talk about the future possibilities a little later, but first, let’s take a look at the Vimeo migration checklist and what all we need at LinqTV for a smooth transfer of your content and customers to LinqTV One. Here is your video migration guide.

Let’s start with the basics first. Here are a few things you must do to start the migration process to LinqTV One.

Now we understand that migration simply does not mean the transfer of video files. In addition, here are the entities that will be migrated.

LinqTV One offers a complete migration process where all your data and customer base shall be migrated to the new LinqTV One CMS interface. In this migration, data will be stored on LinqTV’s servers and accessed via LinqTV One CMS. Alternatively, there is another way of on-premises migration where LinqTV has to manage all the content metadata and artworks, but video/audio would be served from the customer’s own cloud storage via their own CDN.

For the ease of process, let’s assume you need to migrate all your assets in a full-fledged migration to LinqTV One.

Well, it’s not. LinqTV’s team of experts will be there to assist you at every stage of your Vimeo migration journey.  Here is a 6-step process of how your entire content repository will be migrated.

First of all, make sure to have a Vimeo Pro subscription and then create a list of all the conten