One million videos in one day
I am glad to be apart of something bigger than me
pile:
Vimeo just broke a major personal record - 1,007,116 videos played in 24 hours.
At it’s peak that’s 17 people hitting play every second. This time last year, we peaked at 190k plays in one day. In January this year, we were at just 220k. After a long hibernation, Vimeo has quadrupled in size in pretty much every dimension in less than six months.
Oh, we also set personal bests for videos uploaded, HD videos uploaded, videos encoded, sign ups, logged in users, comments, and likes. On any given day we usually break one of these, to smash them all at once is awesome.
Here’s a visualization of the past year’s codebase to illustrate the work that went into getting us here. Every dot is a step in the process.
Goddamn I love this job.
Me, too.