Vimeo announces a Desktop Uploader and improved stats

Video sharing site Vimeo has just announced some major improvements, including a Desktop Uploader and new, more detailed statistics pages. The desktop app will offer a lot of features that Vimeo's web interface doesn't, like uploading multiple videos at once, and pausing/resuming your uploads. Vimeo hopes the Desktop Uploader will also increase stability and avoid timeouts on large uploads. The app will be cross-platform, built on Adobe Air, and should hit public beta soon.

The new stats pages will roll out by the end of the year, offering advanced data on all your videos, both individually and in the aggregate. You'll be able to see who's playing your videos, where your traffic is coming from (both in terms of referrers and geo stats) and whether people are watching in HD or SD. Many of these stats features will be for Plus users only, but Basic members will get a new stats view too.

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