Mediagazer: Vimeo Starts Attracting More Web Video Series, Viewers, But Advertisers Not Welcome (Mike Shields/Wall Street Journal)

2:15 PM ET, September 29, 2014

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Vimeo Starts Attracting More Web Video Series, Viewers, But Advertisers Not Welcome — Call it the anti-YouTube. — Each month, when comScore releases its monthly rankings of the top Web video properties, there are the usual suspects: YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo , AOL.

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

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