Why Facebook should buy Vimeo if it wants to take on YouTube

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by Sindy Cator on October 23, 2015 at 8:17 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Opinion

Yesterday, I noticed something peculiar while covering two separate stories on Facebook search and Facebook-owned Instagram: the accompanying videos were hosted on Vimeo. That’s odd. After all, it’s no secret Facebook has recently doubled up on challenging YouTube’s utter dominance in the market. In just a few months, it’s introduced 360-degree video, tested a pop-out video player, improved recognition of copyrighted content, enabled video profile avatars, added live-streaming capabilities and much more. It also spent an insane amount of money on Oculus last year to get the jump on virtual reality. So why embed Vimeo videos when it’s spent so…