As a Vimeo Pro, Business, Premium or Enterprise member, you can invite team members to your account to help upload and manage your videos and collections. Pro members can add up to 3 team members to their account and Vimeo Business members and higher can add up to 10.
Team member types
There are four permission types for team members: uploaders, viewers, contributors, and admins. All types will need to make their own Vimeo account in order to be able to join a team.
Uploaders can only upload videos to your account. On their upload page, they will be able to toggle between uploading videos to their own account and uploading videos to your account. Uploaders will only be able to edit the title and description of the video while it is being uploaded to your account. Any videos an uploader adds to your account will have the privacy setting Only Me, but as the account owner, you can change the video's privacy setting after upload.
Note: Uploaders will need to make sure they select the correct account from their upload page.
Uploaders do not have any access to the team account otherwise. They cannot view or edit the video after they've uploaded it nor can they access any settings for the team account.
Viewers can be invited to specific folders within your account, but they will have limited access to the contents of those folders. They can access the review page, leave notes, and share videos that are within those folders. They do not have the ability to upload, edit, publish, or access any other settings or areas of your account that are meant for working members on the team.
Contributors can be invited to access a specific folder within your account. They’ll have the ability to upload, edit, review, share, and publish videos within a folder, but won’t have access to any of your other folders or areas of your account. A contributor also won’t be able to change the title of a folder, delete a folder, or delete a video from the owner's account. They can view settings of a video in that folder as well as the analytics tab, which has numbers from the past 30 days but won't have access to advanced analytics for the video.
Once in the Video Manager, Contributors will only be able see the folders to which they have been invited.
In addition, contributors on a Premium account can access settings of an archived live event within the folder to which they contribute. Contributors can start a live event to Vimeo if they are using an external encoder via RTMP (after the Owner or Admin creates an event and provides the Contributor with the RTMP URL and Stream Key). Take note that if the Vimeo account is connected to other social accounts such as Facebook, then any live events the Contributor starts from their encoder will also simulcast to that destination.
Admins can help you upload and manage all your videos, folders, and collections.
Admins will not be able to access your account settings or payment information. Admins also cannot delete videos; only the account owner can do this.
Admins have access to the following features:
- Creating, managing, and deleting collections
- Creating, managing, and deleting folders
- Changing the privacy settings of your videos
- Viewing advanced analytics of your videos
Admins on Premium accounts can additionally do the following:
- Create live events
- Adjust privacy settings, embed customization, and interaction tool settings for live events
- Stream to live events using WebRTC or RTMP from an external encoder
- End live events
- Export chat transcripts
Only Owners can do the following:
- Edit and organize the account's profile page
- Access Simulcast settings
- Authenticate API-integrated encoders and applications
- This means any encoder that allows you to connect to Vimeo by logging in to account directly from the software or application (e.g. Livestream Studio via login, Mevo, Vimeo mobile app, or other third-party direct integrations)
- Delete live events
- Access Developer API and create and manage developer apps for their account
Adding a team member to your account
To add a team member, click the "Manage Team" tab in your Account Settings. You’ll see all your existing team members on this page (by default, it’s just you listed there). Click the "+ Add team member" link on the right side of the page, and a module will pop up. You’ll need to enter your team member’s email address, then select Uploader, Contributor, or Admin from the dropdown menu. For Contributors, you’ll need to select the folder they’ll be working out of before you send the invite.
You can also add a Contributor directly to a folder from your Video Manager. Select the folder you want to add a contributor to, click the + icon (between your profile picture and the Video Manager search bar) to pull up a menu that shows all the team members currently on the folder (by default, it’s just you). Click “Add,” type in the email address of the Contributor, then hit the “Send” button to invite them to your folder.
Pro tip: enter the email address associated with their existing Vimeo account if they have one!
✦ Accepting an invitation to join a team
Any person you invite to be an Uploader, Contributor, or Admin to your account will need to log into their own Vimeo account or create a Vimeo account (if they don’t have one) before they can accept your invitation. Make sure the email address you invite matches the email address your team member uses to create an account.
After you (the account owner) send the invite, the team member will appear in your team list with a status of “Pending.” If the person you’ve added still hasn’t responded to your invite, you can send them a reminder. Hover over the “Pending” status and click the “Send reminder” link that appears.
If your team member is having trouble receiving the invite email, you can send them a direct invite URL by hovering over the Pending status and clicking “Copy invite link” and sending it directly to your team member. Please note that this link is unique to each individual team member, so it can’t be used to invite others to the account. Once a team member accepts the invitation, the “Copy invite link” option will not appear any longer.
Removing a team member from your account
You can revoke a team member’s access to your Vimeo account at any time by clicking the gray “X” at the end of the member’s row on the Manage Team page. Only the account owner has the ability to remove team members from an account, but admins can remove contributors from a folder.
Changing account ownership
If you need to change the owner of a team account, then follow these steps:
- Change the account password of the main account to a temporary one that you can give to your team member who you want to take over the team account.
- Remove the account you’d like to add as the primary account holder from the team.
- Once it’s no longer listed as a team member, delete that account completely from Vimeo, as each account can only be linked to one email address. (Alternatively, they could change the email address on that account to a different email).
- Once the deleted account is no longer associated with any Vimeo accounts, you’ll be able to change the email on the team account to that email address. Here's how to do that:
- Log in to the team account (via the current primary email), and head to your Account Settings page.
- Click the Edit button next to your current email address on that page, and you will be prompted to enter your new email.
After you change the email address associated with your Vimeo account, a notification email will be sent to both the old and new email addresses.
Once that is done, you can hand the new credentials off to the team member and they can log into the account and update the temporary password. Make sure to have them update the billing information as well, if needed!