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Vimeo outage: Failing to load player.js

Vimeo reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 21, 2025, 12:27 UTC. It was resolved after 7h 28m.

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Oct 21, 2025, 12:27 UTC
started
Oct 21, 2025, 19:56 UTC
resolved
7h 28m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedOct 21, 2025, 19:56 UTC

    Monitors are clear and we’re resolving this incident.

  2. identifiedOct 21, 2025, 13:50 UTC

    We've confirmed that player.js is now successfully loading. We'll continue monitoring.

  3. identifiedOct 21, 2025, 13:45 UTC

    We've taken action to circumvent the problem and we are seeing signs of recovery.

  4. investigatingOct 21, 2025, 12:30 UTC

    We’re investigating issues where loading player.js fails. This may affect playback in scenarios where customers are directly loading our Player library. Playback on the web and in embeds are unaffected.

  5. investigatingOct 21, 2025, 12:27 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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Vimeo outage on Oct 21, 2025: Failing to load player.js · APIStatus.watch