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You might be thinking of VEVO (which is for major label music videos)..

VEVO is not owned by Google or YouTube.

VEVO has a deal with Youtube where they get their own-branded player (with a VEVO logo in the corner instead of Youtube), and I think there's a way to search for only VEVO-brand videos on Youtube or something.

And a way to search for only non-VEVO videos. (I hate the VEVO player.)

In Firefox, click the Searchbar drop-down "Manage Search Engines", and then the link "Get more search engines". Find and install the YouTube search engine.

Now edit the $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<your profile>/searchplugins/youtube-video-search.xml file. Change the os:URL tag template section from "?search_query={searchTerms}&" to "?search_query={searchTerms}+-vevo&".

Your Youtube searches will now default to excluding the term "vevo" from any result.

You can build your own branded YouTube player by using the API.

No, Vimeo is owned by IAC (Interactive Corp.).

No, it isn't.