Vimeo offers a variety of ways to restrict access to your videos. This article will explain how to change a video’s setting and what each setting does so you can make an informed decision on how to configure your videos. Please note that most of these settings are only available to Plus members and higher.
In this article:
- Restrict who can watch your videos
- Understanding the different privacy settings
- Restrict where your video can be embedded
Restrict who can watch your videos
- Log into Vimeo and navigate to your Video Manager.
- Click on a video to open the video edit page.
- On the right side, click Privacy.
- Under the Link section, select the desired privacy setting. The selection will save automatically.
Understanding the different privacy settings
When it comes to your video’s privacy settings, you have a few options to choose from. Below are the visibility options and what they mean.
- Public: Anyone can watch the video. This video will also be discoverable in search engines.
- Private (Plus and higher): Private videos can be seen or shared with anyone with the link (either shared directly or via embedding). Those you share the video with don't need a Vimeo Account to see the video. Anyone with the link can also reshare it. This setting prevents your video from appearing in search.
- Note: When you change your video's privacy settings to Private, an extra set of numbers - what we call the private hash - will be added at the end of your video's URL, and must be included in order for share links and embeds to work. You can remove that extra set of numbers from the URL by changing your video's privacy setting to Public, Password, or Hide from Vimeo.
- Password (Plus and higher): Set a password for the video. Anyone who enters that password can watch the video.
- Hide from Vimeo (Plus and higher): The video can be embedded and viewed on other sites but does not have a video page on Vimeo. Your video cannot appear in channels and groups but can still be added to showcases and portfolios.
- Only me: The video will be visible internally to you and your chosen team members, and no one else. (Note: Adding team members to your account requires a Pro membership or higher).
Restrict where your video can be embedded
Another element of video privacy is whether your video can be viewed somewhere other than vimeo.com. All privacy settings except for “Only me” allow you to embed your video on other sites.
- Log into Vimeo and navigate to your Video Manager.
- Click on a video to open the video edit page.
- On the right side, click Privacy.
- Find the Embed section at the bottom of the panel.
- Choose between three options:
- Anywhere: Anyone can embed your video onto any page on the internet
- Nowhere: No one, including you and your team members, can embed your video anywhere. It will only be viewable on vimeo.com
- Specific domains (Plus and higher): Add your website’s domain (mysite.com) or subdomain (subdomain.mysite.com) in the text field that appears; be sure to click (+) to add it. You can add multiple domains.
- Note that subdomains will need to be added individually; the main domain will cover additional URL paths (mysite.com/specificpage) but will not cover subdomains.
- Wildcard characters are not supported.
- Your selection will save automatically.