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Vimeo library overview

Libraries are available for all Vimeo accounts. Specific options may vary based on your plan.

All of your content lives in a Library. How it's organized depends on whether you use Vimeo on your own or you're part of a team.

  • If you use Vimeo on your own, you have a single space: your Library. Everything you upload lives here, and you don't need to create a team.
  • When you create a team, that Library splits into two: My Library (your personal content) and Team Library (the content you share with your team).

This article summarizes how your libraries work and how to use them.

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How your libraries work

If you use Vimeo on your own: your Library

  • You have a single space, your Library, which is accessible to all users, both free and paid.
  • Everything you upload, record, or save to Vimeo goes to your Library by default.
  • You don't need to create a team to use Vimeo, and there's no separate Team Library until you create one.
  • You can organize content with folders and tags, set privacy, and move, share, or delete videos.
  • If you're part of a Workspace or Organization, administrators can view these folders.

If you're part of a team: My Library and Team Library

When you create a team (or join one), your space splits into two:

  • My Library — your personal space within the team. It can't be renamed or deleted. Videos you upload, record, or save go here by default unless you choose otherwise.
  • Team Library — the shared space for your team's videos and folders, designed for collaboration and knowledge sharing. The Team Library is available on all paid plans; certain features require an Enterprise plan.

Roles and permissions:

  • Owners, Admins, Contributors, and Contributor Plus (Enterprise only) can add content.
  • Owners and Admins can view all content uploaded by any team member within the Team Library.
  • Contributor Plus (Enterprise only), Contributors, and Viewer roles need specific folder permissions to access content in their Team Library.
  • Viewers can see My Library, but they can't add content until they're upgraded to Contributor or above.

For Enterprise accounts with Workspaces: If you're part of multiple Workspaces, your libraries' content matches the Workspace you're currently logged into. To learn how to switch between Workspaces, visit How to switch between multiple Workspaces.

How to navigate to your libraries

To navigate to your libraries:

  1. Click on the left navigation panel from your home page, within your selected Workspace.
  2. Select Library if you use Vimeo on your own, or My library or Team library if you're part of a team.

What actions can I perform in my libraries?

Unified Search

Vimeo's search offers a unified and faster way to find content. You can:

  • Search both the Library and public content from a single interface.
  • Find specific video segments using keyword searches within transcripts.
  • Utilize filters and sorting options to refine results.
  • Easily switch between My library and public content views.

Read in detail about how to search your library.

Bulk changes

You can perform bulk actions on videos in your My library, Team library, or directly from search results within your Library. To select a video, check the box located on the left side of its thumbnail or row, depending on whether you are in grid-view or list-view.

Once you start selecting videos, the following bulk action options will appear:

  • Add to Showcase: Add selected videos to any of your existing showcases.
  • Move: Move up to 50 selected videos to a folder of your choice.
    • Read about folders at Organize videos into folders.
    • You can move videos from the Library to a folder.
    • You can move videos from one Library folder to another.
    • You cannot move videos back into the Library once they are moved out.
    • You can move folders to another folder or the library.
  • Privacy: Change privacy settings for up to 100 videos at a time. You can select Link privacy or Embed privacy as required. You can also choose to allow or disable downloads. Note that Vimeo Stock clips and Vimeo On Demand videos must remain private.
  • Delete: Permanently delete up to 100 selected videos from your account after entering your password (Only the Organization owner or admin can perform this action).
  • Translate subtitles and dub: Generate AI subtitle translations and/or dubbed audio in one or more languages for multiple selected videos at once. Available to team members on select Vimeo Enterprise plans. There is no hardcoded limit on how many videos can be processed in a single bulk action. For very large libraries, we recommend processing videos in chunks.

Individual changes

To make more detailed changes to an individual video, you can access its settings by clicking the video's thumbnail in your Library. For more information, refer to Video settings overview.

  • Copy link: You can copy the link to your video and paste it wherever you want to share it.
  • Share: Click on share to open the video share modal to view who has access to the video and who can share it with others.
  • Video info: A side panel will appear on the right side of your screen. The panel will display a preview of your video, the title, team members with access, and Manage video button which will take you to the video settings page. There is also a Privacy section where you're able to view the current video privacy as well as change it.
  • When in list mode, additional options for performing actions related to the video will become visible when you hover over it. In grid mode, they'll appear in the top right corner of the video player.

About additional features in your libraries

Additional features are accessible from the Videos tab by clicking the ellipses (•••) icon. These features include:

  • Share: This icon, depicting an upward-pointing arrow, shares the video.
  • Copy link: Copies the video link.
  • Copy embed code: The </> icon copies the video's embed code.
  • Analytics: A small graph icon leads to the analytics panel, displaying 30 days of data for the specific video. Further information is available at Vimeo Analytics.
  • Review links: Open the Review links modal to create and manage review links.
  • Download: Opens a modal for downloading all available versions of the video. This is not shareable.
  • Move: Relocates the video to a different folder.
  • Replace: Navigates to the Collaboration tab within the video's settings, where the current file can be replaced with another. Versions can be compared on the Video review page.
  • Add to Starred: Stars the video/folder, ensuring it appears in the Starred folder on the left navigation panel of the home page.
  • Delete: Deletes the video.

Making the most out of the Vimeo library

Sort your videos

  1. Inside your library, select the Last modified dropdown in the top right corner.
  2. Choose from the options to sort your content by:
  • Title, A to Z
  • Title, Z to A
  • Last modified
  • First modified
  • Last added
  • First added
  • Longest
  • Shortest

Filter your videos

You can filter your videos by Type, Privacy, and Created by filters. You can use the Created by filter if you are on a team account and want to filter videos by creator in the Team library and folders.

  1. Go to your library from your Vimeo account and select the filter of your choice.
  2. To filter by Type, select your preference from the dropdown menu.
  3. To filter by Privacy, select one or more privacy options from the dropdown.

To filter your videos by the Created by filter:

  1. From your home page, navigate to the Team library.
  2. Click on the Created by filter dropdown.
  3. Select one or more team members from the dropdown menu.

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