{"id":7658,"date":"2026-01-23T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/vimeo-starts-layoffs-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:10:11","slug":"vimeo-starts-layoffs-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/vimeo-starts-layoffs-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo starts layoffs after acquisition by Bending Spoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vimeo, the video-hosting platform, is laying off some of its global staff, according to a report from Business Insider. The move comes shortly after the company\u2019s acquisition by the Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons, which purchased it in an all-cash deal last year for $1.38 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bending Spoons confirmed the layoffs to BI but wouldn\u2019t share how many people would lose their jobs. The Verge reports that the cutbacks will impact a \u201clarge portion\u201d of the company\u2019s total workforce, citing a LinkedIn post from Vimeo\u2019s former VP of Global Brand and Creative, who stated that he, \u201calong with a large portion of the company,\u201d had been \u201cimpacted by layoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch reached out to Vimeo and Bending Spoons for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vimeo, which was founded in 2004, has struggled to find its footing in a field dominated by YouTube. In recent years, the company has leaned heavily into AI. In 2023, it\u00a0announced\u00a0plans to launch AI-powered script-writing and video-editing tools. This past October, the company added a suite of additional\u00a0AI-powered creator tools\u00a0designed to connect filmmakers\u2019 \u201ccontent directly to AI workflows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, Bending Spoons has acquired a number of other well-known tech platforms, including Meetup, Evernote, and\u00a0WeTransfer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vimeo, the video-hosting platform, is laying off some of its global staff, according to a report from Business Insider. The move comes shortly after the company\u2019s acquisition by the Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons, which purchased it in an all-cash deal last year for $1.38 billion. Bending Spoons confirmed the layoffs to BI but wouldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-1162218344.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}