Vimeo has announced its 2022 Best of Staff Picks across three categories: Best Branded Videos, Breakthrough Creators, and Best Videos. This year’s winners were selected from 600+ Staff Picks in 2020.

In 2022, the highest number of brand videos was included in Staff Picks. The category was introduced in 2020 and has now reached 12% of Staff Picks.

Best Branded Videos of the Year

• Apple – Escape From The Office, directed by Mark Molloy

• Cannondale Presents – High Road, directed by Lindsey Hagen
• Christie’s – Santo, directed by Freddie Leyden

• Coors Light – CoorSlide, directed by Animation Director Faga Melo and Creative Directors Raphael Franzini & Rafael Beretta
• Kathmandu – Summer Never Sleeps, directed by Daniel Warwick

• KidSuper – The Misadventures of KidSuper, directed by Sebastian Sdaigui
• Mastercard – Spotlight, directed by Fredrik Bond

• Penny – The Wish, directed by Marcus Ibanez
• Switzerland Tourism – Even if it Takes A While, directed by Spencer MacDonald

• TAKT – Thank you, directed by Bine Bach

Best Videos of the Year

• Doechii – Crazy, directed by C Prinz
• Faraway, directed by Aziz Zoromba
• Indonesia FPV: Bali & Java, directed by Andrew Efimov
• O Black Hole!, directed by Renee Zhan
• One More Try, directed by Najeeb Tarazi
• Ousmane, directed by Jorge Camarotti
• The Sentence of Michael Thompson, directed by Kyle Thrash, Haley Elizabeth Anderson
• The Vandal, directed by Eddie Alcazar
• TSHA – Running, directed by Danaé Gosset
• Ultromedia Please, directed by Sam Campbell

Breakout Creators of the Year

• Amber Schaefer
• Cherish Oteka
• David Findlay
• Dumas Haddad
• Ian Barling
• Joe Cappa
• Justyna Obasi
• Nuhash Humayun
• Runyararo Mapfumo
• Talya Galasko

All the winning videos are available at https://vimeo.com/bestoftheyear/.

“Vimeo Staff Picks is an industry-respected source for talent discovery and a way for our creators to gain more exposure. In a recent Vimeo survey of hundreds of Staff-Picked creators, 85% believe receiving a Staff Pick helped increase brand awareness around their business, 68% said that being Staff Picked helped them receive paid/funded future work, and 61% say that being Staff Picked helped launch their careers,” said Lynn Girotto, chief marketing officer, Vimeo. “This is a testament to the ambition of Staff Picks to help creators increase their exposure, get hired, and most importantly, get paid.”

For the first time, this year’s Best Of microsite provides an interactive experience, using Vimeo’s interactive video capabilities. Visitors to the microsite can access curation notes, director commentary and Q&A, filmmaker biographies, and more.