Are there any alternatives beside Vimeo and the much too expensive Brightcove?

1- For digital content, any protection really happens BEFORE the video is actually bought. Once it plays on a computer screen, there are so many ways to “grab” the content. We should all recognize it.

2- Our experience shows very few users have fraudulent behaviour (for example, we sell Epicurious cooking school videos, and these are not share of free platforms). 99.8% of people use correctly the bought content. Note, fraudulent users tend to never content, and find anyhow ways to acquire it for free. We strongly believe a good purchase experience reduces actually the risk of fraud, as it takes more efforts to steal than to buy legitimately .

3- In Vimeo, options are still limited to protect videos (see in video settings):
a- Remove the download option of your video
b- Have domain restrictions activated, so the link cannot be easily shared with everyone.
There are few other elements we can enforce too, i.e. we do see who buys content, with credit card info, email and more. We run parallel checks and if any abuse, we can easily notify the users. So far, we never had to use such an approach.

Cleeng PLAY allows you the publisher, to:

- Keep up to 92% of the revenue generated

- Offer a user flow that is embedded in the player – viewers can pay for and watch the video without leaving your web site

- Set any price of your videos and we mean real revenue, not just tipping.

- Adjust to varying business models: pay per view, subscriptions and even metered paywalls.

- Immediately accept major credit cards, PayPal and even mobile payments. We provide payment methods in over 87 countries.

- And best of all? This service is ready for your to start selling your videos immediately! Why wait? Sign-up today for a free Publisher account. All you need to do to Get started and generate revenue from your videos! Go to: http://play.cleeng.com/setup/

seems legit.

Some people create lots of small videos, you can’t expect me to pay $0.10 for each one they make, but you can expect me to pay $3/month to watch them all.

It seams many other video or content platforms tried to launch their own pay system, yet often they realize this is not their core business and then look for other best in class components to integrate.
Actually, for those who cannot wait 2013, Vimeans can try Cleeng. Takes 2 minutes to protect a video: http://play.cleeng.com/setup

“Your Tips

SWEET. Your video has been tipped $5.00 by 1 person so far.”

It also states your name and says you tipped me 15 hours ago, though yesterday at 1 am nothing showed up.. A friend sent me a link to the FAq this morning https://vimeo.com/help/faq/tip_jar

There you can read the following:

“I just received a tip via Tip Jar. Why isn’t it listed?
It takes tips 3 hours to process. After 3 hours, you’ll see the tip listed on your video page and the video’s Advanced Settings page. You’ll also receive a confirmation email.”

Other than that:
“a payment for all the tips you receive in the month of June will be transferred from Vimeo to your PayPal account on July 30th.)”

Thanks for the tip! I’ll put it to good use.