Vimeo is getting a lot quieter in Midtown. The video platform is preparing to cut about 25% of its New York City staff, zeroing in on employees at its Manhattan offices and adding to a string of post-acquisition shakeups. The move comes just months after the company was taken private and follows earlier, deeper rounds of layoffs. For New York customers and creators who lean on Vimeo’s enterprise tools, it is another question mark over local support and day-to-day operations.
As reported by Crain's New York Business, Vimeo plans to eliminate roughly a quarter of its city workforce, with affected employees based in the company’s Herald Square offices at 330 W. 34th St. The piece, published April 2, 2026, credits CoStar for the building detail and cites commercial real estate sources on the scale of the cuts.
Vimeo agreed in September 2025 to be bought by Milan-based Bending Spoons in an approximately $1.38 billion cash deal, and the transaction closed later that year. TechCrunch has traced the buyer’s string of acquisitions and highlighted its track record of rapid post-purchase reorganizations.
That reorganization has already included sweeping job cuts. Reporting around a January 20, 2026 round said large portions of Vimeo’s global staff were let go and that core video engineering roles were heavily affected, according to PetaPixel, which drew on employees’ public posts and company statements about those January cuts.
Local ripple effects
For Midtown and the broader Manhattan office market, a single tech tenant trimming its local headcount is one more data point in a longer trend of shifting demand and tenant downsizing. Cushman & Wakefield's MarketBeat reports describe a bifurcated recovery in Manhattan, with strong leasing in top-tier buildings alongside persistent vacancy pressures elsewhere, a dynamic that can magnify the impact when occupiers scale back staff.
Bending Spoons' playbook
Bending Spoons has repeatedly bought digital brands and then dramatically reshaped their workforces and product plans, a pattern chronicled by TechCrunch and other trade outlets. Past deals such as WeTransfer and Evernote were followed by major restructurings, which analysts say helps explain the speed and scale of the changes at Vimeo after the takeover.
Gizmodo noted that Vimeo did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the January cuts, and the company has not published a local headcount that would make the exact New York impact fully clear. For now, the key things to watch are formal notices to affected employees and any announcements about client support, role relocations or office consolidation as the company finalizes its plan.
