Despite the competition from short-clip platforms like TikTok, Instagram & Co., YouTube remains the uncrowned king of video hosting—an incredible amount of clips are newly uploaded and watched every day. This, of course, includes a lot of questionable content. Those who prefer a "more serious" environment for their own films have few alternatives, especially since 
Vimeo was taken over by Bending Spoons.
A recently launched portal called "rushes" is positioning itself as the new platform from filmmakers for filmmakers and aims to offer both video hosting and to grow a community around it. This should also help find an audience for the films; curated clip collections are also planned. It sounds a bit like Vimeo 15 years ago, although rushes is based in Europe (specifically in England).
Since rushes has no advertising, the whole thing is financed through membership fees—for 7.19 Euros per month, you get 200GB of storage space, a public portfolio page, and also some review functions like frame-accurate comments. As part of a free trial membership, you can upload one video (up to 500 MB) once. Last but not least, the creators also emphasize that they will never use the hosted videos for AI training themselves.
So far, so good—whether rushes can attract enough filmmakers to function not only as a hosting option but also as an interesting platform for viewers remains to be seen. It would be nice if the gap left by Vimeo were filled.
