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Vimeo Inc. (VMEO) reported its second-quarter 2025 earnings, showcasing a significant surprise in earnings per share (EPS), which stood at $0.04 compared to the forecasted $0.01. This 300% EPS surprise, however, was slightly overshadowed by a modest revenue miss, with actual revenue at $104.7 million against the expected $104.87 million. Following the earnings announcement, Vimeo’s stock saw a 5.07% increase, closing at $3.69 in aftermarket trading. According to InvestingPro data, the company has maintained profitability over the last twelve months, with a healthy gross profit margin of 78%.
Key Takeaways
- Vimeo’s EPS of $0.04 significantly surpassed expectations.
- Revenue was slightly below forecasts, with a 0.16% shortfall.
- Stock price rose by 5.07% in aftermarket trading.
- Self-serve bookings grew by 11%, reaching 2021 levels.
- Vimeo Enterprise revenue surged by 25%.
Company Performance
Vimeo demonstrated notable growth in Q2 2025, particularly in its self-serve and enterprise segments. The company reported a 6% year-over-year increase in bookings, marking the strongest growth since 2022. Self-serve bookings rose by 11%, reaching levels last seen in 2021, while Vimeo Enterprise revenue grew by an impressive 25%. These figures highlight Vimeo’s strategic focus on expanding its enterprise market and enhancing its self-serve offerings.
Financial Highlights
- Revenue: $104.7 million, slightly below the $104.87 million forecast
- Earnings per share: $0.04, a 300% surprise over the $0.01 forecast
- Adjusted EBITDA guidance raised to $35 million, up from $25-30 million
Earnings vs. Forecast
Vimeo’s EPS of $0.04 significantly outperformed the forecast of $0.01, resulting in a 300% surprise. This marks a strong recovery compared to previous quarters, as the company continues to improve its profitability. However, revenue fell short of expectations by 0.16%, which may reflect ongoing macroeconomic challenges in certain geographies.
Market Reaction
Following the earnings release, Vimeo’s stock experienced a 5.07% increase, closing at $3.69 in aftermarket trading. The stock’s movement reflects investor optimism driven by the substantial EPS beat and positive guidance revisions. Based on InvestingPro Fair Value analysis, Vimeo currently appears undervalued despite trading at a P/E ratio of 37.29. This performance positions Vimeo favorably within its 52-week range, with the stock trading closer to its low of $3.445 than its high of $7.9.
Outlook & Guidance
Vimeo has raised its adjusted EBITDA guidance to $35 million, signaling confidence in its operational efficiency and growth prospects. The company aims for double-digit growth by year-end, with a focus on expanding its enterprise market and enhancing its self-serve business. Upcoming product developments, including AI-powered features and new SKUs, are expected to drive further growth.
Executive Commentary
CEO Philip Moyer emphasized Vimeo’s commitment to integrating AI into its offerings, stating, "Over 64% of companies in the world are rolling out AI agents, and we intend to make Vimeo a part of that AI agent ecosystem." CFO Julian highlighted the company’s efficient investment strategies, noting, "We’re able to invest more efficiently than we expected."
Risks and Challenges
- Macroeconomic pressures in healthcare and education sectors could impact revenue growth.
- The evolving competitive landscape in video platforms may pose challenges.
- Supply chain disruptions could affect product rollouts and service delivery.
- Market saturation in certain segments may limit growth opportunities.
- Regulatory changes in data privacy and security could increase compliance costs.
Q&A
During the earnings call, analysts inquired about the trajectory of self-serve subscriber growth and the dynamics of enterprise customers. Executives addressed these concerns, providing insights into the development of AI features and the company’s capital allocation strategy. These discussions highlighted Vimeo’s focus on innovation and strategic investment to drive future growth.
Full transcript - Vimeo Inc (VMEO) Q2 2025:
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: Hello, and thank you for joining Vimeo’s Q2 twenty twenty five earnings live Q and A. Before we begin, a few comments. First, this session will be recorded and available on the Vimeo Investor Relations site later today. Second, we will discuss Vimeo’s outlook and future performance. These forward looking statements typically may be preceded by words such as we expect, we believe, we anticipate, or other such statements.
These forward looking views are subject to risks and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from the views expressed today. Please refer to the earnings release we furnished to the SEC on Form eight ks earlier today, which is posted on our website for additional information regarding those risks and uncertainties. We’ve also provided information regarding certain key metrics and our non GAAP financial measures, including certain forward looking measures. These should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute for or in isolation from GAAP measures. Additional information regarding Vimeo’s financial performance, including reconciliations with comparable GAAP measures, can be found in our shareholder letter and Vimeo’s filings with the SEC as well as in supplemental information posted on the Investor Relations section of our website.
And with that, I’ll hand it over to our CEO, Philip Moyer. Philip?
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: Good afternoon. Thank you for joining Vimeo’s Q2 twenty twenty five live earnings call. Vimeo had a strong Q2 twenty twenty five with bookings growing 6% year over year, the strongest growth since 2022. Self serve grew bookings by an impressive 11%, reaching levels last seen in 2021. This success is attributed to the recent changes in packaging and pricing, but also early positive signals from all the new product improvements we’ve been making.
Vimeo Enterprise grew revenue by 25% and saw its second highest booking level on a dollar basis. Despite falling slightly short of our bookings growth goals, the fundamentals are strong, and we are winning competitive deals by helping major brands consolidate their video technology and seeing traction across all of our AI offerings. We believe we will reaccelerate growth in this product’s bookings in the second half. Our business is doing well. We continue to hope to end the year with a line of sight to double digit growth.
Moreover, our improved efficiency has enabled us to raise our twenty twenty five adjusted EBITDA guidance to approximately $35,000,000 up from our previous range of $25,000,000 to 30,000,000 Thank you again. And with that, we will take your questions.
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: Hi. First, we’re gonna go ahead and remind all of our analysts to please turn on your cameras and your audio. First, we’ll talk to Youssef Squali.
Youssef Squali, Analyst: Excellent. Hi, guys. Nice seeing you. Maybe, Philip, can you talk a little bit about the, the self serve piece of the business? The seems like the upside came mostly through the the pricing change that you discussed.
Maybe talk about the underlying, elements of what’s driving subscriber declines still. And when you talk about having line of sight to double digit growth by the end of the year, what’s kind of baked in in terms of subscriber growth for the self serve business in particular? Do we get to a point where maybe we, you know, flatten the growth, or is that something most likely for 2026?
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: Look. I am super thrilled with our, the self serve leadership that we have. I think earlier this year, I talked about the fact that we put in place a single threaded leader, and that single threaded leader and that team are really doing some tremendous work. The pricing and packaging work was important, and not just from a from an increasing of price perspective, but also from customer retention. And so the retention rates in that business continue to be strong even as we roll out new pricing and packaging across the entire customer base.
So first and foremost, retention is absolutely essential to establishing a floor in that business to be able to grow from. The second thing is that we’ve been releasing a lot of really important features, capabilities that are that some of our customers have been asking for for years. Some of the things that you saw on the lead in video, the way that we actually the watch page for videos. People come to Vimeo for inspiration. A lot of marketers do.
A lot of creators do. And so reinvigorating our brand as it relates to watch and it relates to that entire creator community is absolutely essential, in the business. Simple things like re releasing the Apple application that we did this past quarter are again starting to delight our customers even more. We just started rolling out AI features. I think I had mentioned this on the last call.
We had just started that with our self-service customer base, and so we’re seeing really strong activity in the use of our AI features. And so when I combine together all the innovations that we’re doing, the solid retention, satisfying customers more with the right pricing and the right packaging, I actually do continue to believe that that business can be a growth business over a longer period of time than just from the enhancements that we’re seeing in the pricing and packaging.
Julian, CFO, Vimeo: And, Yusuf, why don’t I add to that a little bit? So you asked a little bit about the subscriber growth. I I I think likely mathematically that is into 2026. But as we’ve talked about before, pricing gives us a lot of room in that business if we look at the next, several quarters. In fact, actually, in q three, we are already seeing really nice trends in the self serve business.
And one of the things we’ve talked to a lot of you about is as we try to get back to growth and move the company back solidly into revenue growth, that one of the fastest pass back to that is through self serve. Right now, as we look at it, we’ve always just thought, let’s get self serve back to growth. Right? Let’s start there. But actually, given what we’re seeing, we believe that with with good ex execution, this could be a double digit grower.
So when you think about the math to get Vimeo itself back, that is really exciting to us. Of course, lots of execution to do, but the self serve business is really, really we’re really very enthusiastic there in terms of the business. Thank
Youssef Squali, Analyst: you. And then just very quickly on the enterprise and the slowdown in bookings. I think it was related, you said, the release to a particular customer. Can you maybe just drill a little deeper into that and what gives you confidence for the reacceleration in the second half?
Julian, CFO, Vimeo: Yeah. So let me start and then Philip can fill in some more about kind of where we’re going with the product road map. So the customer we mentioned is, kind of an interesting example for us and and very much speaks to the strategy of Vimeo right now. So that customer happens to be an international customer that was very central bandwidth a bandwidth user in a lot of ways. They were had a Vimeo enterprise account, but a lot of what they were buying us for was bandwidth.
And as you can see in our add ons business, that bandwidth business has been gotten a little bit more commoditized. You’ve seen that business come down in the last, while for us. So this customer really never adopted our other features as well as we would have hoped. And when that happens, we have retention, challenges. And we we know that, and we are working on that.
And that is why we are so focused on a product road map that includes more than that. So for us, internally, I think it’s a good lesson to remind us that we have to continually work to get our customers up and running on our other features. This one obviously is unfortunate, but I think for us, it’s a really good reminder of where we’re going. It also, you know, in our our mind makes us very excited about the product road map ahead. I think I’ll have Philip focus in on some of the things we’re bringing for enterprises that we just think are gonna help avoid that kind of a situation going forward.
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: Yeah. I would say a couple things. You know, when you’re growing a $100,000,000 enterprise business, as you push through that $100,000,000, it is always a little bit of it it can be a bit rocky in making sure that you have all all engines firing on all cylinders. There’s three things that I think about when you really wanna scale a $100,000,000 enterprise business. You’ve gotta do a fantastic job with new and winning against your competitors.
You do that by innovating, first and foremost, and really providing better service and a better product than your competitors. This quarter, I talked about the fact that we’re very happy with the number of competitive wins that we have. We’re seeing even more customers start to consolidate their video platforms into us. And so we’re being very aggressive in the market, very, very aggressive in going after competitive deals, and we’re excited about how we’re winning those deals. And we believe that we’re making a lot of customers that will be with us a long term long long time.
The second thing we’ve got to do is retain customers. And so we’re spending a lot of time in retooling some of our customer service department, and how we support customers and doing a better job to be able to identify customers like this larger one that might have a retention risk and proactively go and approach them with different offerings. The third thing that we’ve got to do a really good job of is expanding that custom those customer relationships. You know, we made a lot of changes to start to invest in customer relationships this this past year and in the past six months. We’ve brought in a lot of new leadership that focuses on expansion.
And so the things that I see inside of this business, and I spend a lot of time talking to customers, is we’ve got customers that are excited about our products. We’re winning with the innovations that we’re bringing to markets, and we see a path to expand customers. We’re about to start rolling out some of the most important releases that we ever have in the enterprise business. We have some new technology that’s hitting the marketplace here in q three and into q four called workspaces. It’s the number one thing that’s been requested by customers.
It’s higher grade security down at the departmental level and at the organizational unit level. The AI work that we’re doing in translations, we’re seeing now we’re finally starting to generate revenue from the AI innovations that we did and the translations work, where we’re seeing customers come in and translate literally their entire libraries, using our AI features. And so I’m excited about the business. I’m excited about some of the customers that we’ve won. These are some of the most technologically advanced companies in the world.
Spotify as an example, and Jaguar Land Rover, FanDuel. Some of the biggest names that have really extraordinary software development organizations and enterprise class technology and they continue to choose Vimeo. So I continue to be very, very excited about the enterprise business. I believe it can continue to be a a solid growth engine for us regardless of just a few minor ups or downs inside of a quarter.
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: Okay.
Youssef Squali, Analyst: Alright. Great. Thank you, brother.
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: Thank you, Youssef. And now we’ll go to Tom Champion from Piper Sandler.
Tom Champion, Analyst, Piper Sandler: Great. Philip, Julian, good afternoon. Philip, I guess maybe on enterprise with the leadership changes you made at the start of the year and everything you see on the product side, maybe not to put two pointed a question out there, but we did see an enterprise customer decline sequentially. Just curious your thought on the ability to get that back to growth in the second half of the year. And I’m curious, as you think about enterprise over the last quarter, was there any impact from macroeconomic turmoil that maybe was in place at the start of 2Q?
And or just any thoughts on if changes to the search landscape are impacting the enterprise side of the business? I don’t know if it does or it doesn’t, but search is clearly, in a period of change. So any any comments around those those issues would be really helpful.
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: Sure. So, you know, first of all, what I would say is that we continue to win new customers, and we’re excited about the fact that that we’re bringing more customers, into Vimeo, you know, every single day. We do have a number of customers that churn. You know, this is a business that I would tell you that, when I got here, the AOV in that business was much lower than where it is today. And so how we classify customers, whether or not they’re a new Vimeo enterprise customer, self serve customer, a custom customer, an add on customer, we’re still getting some packaging and pricing right in that space.
We’re launching some new SKUs in the mid market. And it’s increasingly what we’re doing is we’re trying to provide a perfect stair step up from self-service all the way up to enterprise. I think I’ve said in the past that roughly about 70% of our customers in the enterprise business come out of that self serve business. And so in any given quarter, it’s been interesting to me to see that we sometimes change customers back and forth between those businesses, but overall, I’m I’m pretty pleased with our ability to bring new customers, into the business. So still excited about it.
I would say on the macroeconomic trends, you know, we’ve seen a few challenges in some geographies, you know, from tariffs and some uncertainty. We’ve seen a little bit of in some areas, health care as an example and education that maybe are not as strong as as what we’d like to see. But I would also tell you that we’ve got a stronger value proposition than ever in some of those places. Our ability to be able to do interactive video, think, is gonna be important. Our ability to be able to do HIPAA and compliant video with, you know, with the health care organizations, we continue to have a strong value proposition.
And then your last question as it relates to search. Look, we’ve seen a lot of organizations fall off a cliff, you know, in terms of SEO. I’ve seen some numbers as high as like 30 to 40% drop off. Our team is doing a better job than they ever have in doing return on ad spend. We’ve focused really, really, really tight on that, and I think that we’re probably more efficient than we’ve ever been in that space.
We also think what I’m excited about is with some of the work we’re doing with Agenic AI, we actually have the ability to be able to help customers with SEO and search and really make video a part of that that longer term SEO strategy. So while there are some challenges in the in the environment in that space, we also view what we’re releasing in the marketplace as something that might be a solution.
Tom Champion, Analyst, Piper Sandler: Okay. Maybe if I could just ask one more. Julian, I’d love to have you talk a little bit about the investment plans for the year. I think last quarter, it was up to $30,000,000 in R and D, and it seems like maybe there’s been a change there or some learnings. And and just maybe talk to us about the investment plans for the year.
Julian, CFO, Vimeo: Absolutely. So I think what we’re finding is that we’re able to invest more efficiently than we expected. So when you look at our guidance overall, the top line guidance is roughly the same as where we were before, but we’ve been able to bring up the adjusted EBITDA guidance. And that really is because we’re able to get more done with less. I think it it is not at all an indication of any less enthusiastic approach to investing.
But as we go and deploy the money, I think we’re being very, very careful about is every dollar something we wanna spend, and we’ve been adjusting along the way. So we’re delighted that we can have that kind of an EBITDA result even while we invest. What I think it really speaks to is something we’ve talked about for a long time, which is the Vimeo business model is great. This business really can generate very attractive margins even when we’re in a lower growth environment. So as as we build this business, we we have always had the approach of let’s invest very, very carefully with our shareholders’ money, and you’re seeing us be able to put up better EBITDA margins, which has actually been a trend we’ve seen over the last two years as well.
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: I wanna add one thing in addition. I think we’re super proud of how efficient we’ve been in this space. The other thing is that we are taking a business that has had, you know, close to a dozen different products, and we’re bringing that that entire business down and that code base down to a single code base over a period of time. As we deprecate older products, as we converge these products together, we get more efficient and we get faster. And so our pace of innovation, I talk a lot about this in our shareholder letters about pace of innovation.
It is so so important to customers right now in a world where AI is changing the interface to information that we’re able to keep pace and actually outpace our competitors in taking customers and the entire video platform we have into this next era of AI. And so I’m excited both about our efficiency, but also our speed at which we’re innovating.
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: Thank you. And our last question, Bill Kerr from TD Cowen.
Bill Kerr, Analyst, TD Cowen: Hi. Thanks for the question. So you mentioned on the shareholder video that you’re testing Genetic AI features with customers now. I was hoping that you might be able to describe, you know, what some of those features look like and what the potential timeline might look like for a broader rollout of those features that you’re testing now.
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: You know, I’ve recently seen some statistic that state that over 64% of companies in the world are rolling out AI agents, and we intend to make Vimeo a part of that AI agent ecosystem. The ability to be able to use any AI agent that you want and be able query the Vimeo the Vimeo library to be able to ask questions. You know, is can you find a video that has my old logo? What is the most frequently watched video inside of my inside of my video library, and how long do people watch it? Is there a particular color palette that’s being used inside of this video?
Or being able to allow a customer support department to be able to integrate video directly into that customer support experience. Say, for example, you have a complex product, instead of you having to just put out text to be able to guide the user, you can go right to a section of a video. The idea of agentic video is literally making Vimeo like almost like ChatGPT for Vimeo, being able to provide access to the entire library through a simple agent, a simple natural language interface. And we’re really excited. We see huge uses for this in things like health care to be able to augment the the patient experience.
We see the opportunity to bring down customer support cost by being if a picture is worth a thousand words, know, a video is worth a million words, and the ability to be able to deliver that video right at the right moment, to in a customer support situation is excited. The ability to be able to onboard employees. You know, one of the biggest contributors to our video library is Zoom. We have an integration with Zoom, and so you can imagine Zoom meetings and team meetings and Meets suddenly being able to be summarized, the content, being able to give clips to be able to onboard a brand new employee of these are the most important clips that you need to watch about the project that you’re coming into. And so we’re really excited about this ability to be able to extract details, to be able to interact with video, and to be able to summarize vast amount of content that you simply couldn’t do without having to watch all the videos in your library.
We can do it in a fraction of a second with some of the new AgenTic technologies that we’re releasing.
Bill Kerr, Analyst, TD Cowen: Okay. Great. Thank you. And then I just had one more on, on capital allocation. You guys continue to generate a significant amount amount of free cash flow, and you maintain a strong cash balance.
Can you talk about how you’re thinking about deploying that capital, especially since it seems like you guys have gotten more efficient with your investments for this year? So, yeah, just looking, you know, to get some more color on that where you’re deploying
Julian, CFO, Vimeo: that capital. Always looking at sort of the three legs of the capital allocation stool, invest in the business, buy back shares, and m and a. And, you know, as you’re we really were came into this year very focused on the invest in the business angle on that. And so that’s what we’ve been really focused on at least near term. But we believe that we are a very attractive acquirer.
We are stable. We have a great business model. We’re in a really exciting space. And so we do look at a lot out there. I think our bar to have something be something that we wanna devote the team’s energy to and distract from other things we’re doing is pretty high.
So so far, nothing’s passed that test, if you will. And then you’ve seen us buy back shares over time, and we clearly have an appetite for our shares out there as we work through the years.
Bill Kerr, Analyst, TD Cowen: Okay. Very helpful. Thank you for the questions.
Moderator/Operator, Vimeo: And that’s all for our questions. With that, I’ll turn it back over to our CEO, Philip Moyer.
Philip Moyer, CEO, Vimeo: So first of all, I wanna thank all of you for being shareholders, and thank you for joining our q two twenty twenty five earnings call. We look forward to speaking with you for our q three update in November.
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