Vidme fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Vidme’s website domain (“vidme.io”), was privately registered on April 2nd, 2025.

Further research reveals promoters citing Mike Popovich as Vidme’s founder:

“Mike and Barb Popovich” made a name for themselves as Amway (Quixtar) promoters in the 1990s/2000s;

 Mike and Barb were in the Air Force, working in cubes all day, when they first saw the Quixtar business opportunity.

Mike & Barb Popovich are Diamonds based in Colorado. They qualified Emerald and Diamond in 2001.

Popovich was part of Ron & Georgia Lee Puryear’s World Wide Dream Builders Amway downline (now World Wide Group).

I initially wasn’t sure if this was Vidme’s Mike Popovich but was able to confirm through Popovich’s “Mike Popovich – Freedom Ministries” YouTube channel:

Freedom Ministries is led by Mike and Barb Popovich and based in Colorado Springs with an emphasis on the love and grace of God.

Last year and up until around March 2025, Popovich was promoting “Social Goats”:

Through our membership program and generous affiliate plan, content creators and the community are all truly rewarded.

This is an opportunity that not only helps creators generate residual income but also allows followers to generate residual income as well.

Today Social Goats’ website is no longer accessible. Whatever Social Goats was, it has since collapsed and/or been abandoned.

In a “How to sign up and start here” marketing video on Vidme’s website, Chris Miller cites himself as a Vidme co-founder:

To the best of my knowledge Miller does not have an MLM history.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.

Vidme’s Products

Vidme has no retailable products or services.

Promoters are only able to market Vidme promoter membership itself.

Vidme Promoter membership provides access to an online video platform;

Watch the latest movies and series & enjoy the online theatre experience only on Vidme right to your Smart TVs, Web, Tablets, Mobile, and on more devices.

Vidme promoter membership is $34.99 a month. Note that some Vidme content is available at no cost.

Vidme’s Compensation Plan

Vidme’s compensation plan pays on recruitment of $34.99 a month promoters.

Vidme Promoter Ranks

There are two promoter ranks within Vidme’s compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

  • General Affiliate – sign up as a Vidme promoter and recruit and maintain one active promoter
  • Qualified Affiliate – recruit and maintain two active Video promoters

An active Vidme promoter is a promoter who maintains their $34.99 a month membership.

Recruitment Commissions

Vidme pays commissions down two levels of recruitment (unilevel):

  • General Affiliates earn 20% on level 1 (personally recruited promoters)
  • Qualified Affiliates earn 20% on level 1 and 12% on level 2

Matching Bonus

The Matching Bonus is a 25% percentage match on earnings by level 1 and level 2 recruited promoters.

To qualify for the Matching Bonus, a Vidme promoter must recruit and maintain ten personally recruited promoters.

Joining Vidme

Vidme promoter membership is $34.99 a month.

Vidme Conclusion

I initially assumed Vidme had a retail offering, in that retail subscribers and promoters were separated.

Through watching the previously cited Vidme marketing video featuring Chris Miller, I was able to confirm this is not the case. Everyone who pays the $34.99 a month fee has a corresponding Vidme promoter account.

This means Vidme has no retail customers, making it a pyramid scheme.

The legal status of Vidme’s MLM business model aside, the viability of it’s video platform is another elephant in the room.

Even if retail subscribers were implemented and separate from Vidme promoters, $34.99 a month is a big ask.

That said, Vidme’s platform appears to work well and the videos I sampled were decent quality and loaded quickly. As I write this Vidme’s website lists twenty-nine user channels.

Certainly Vidme is not the first attempt at creating a platform centered around content creators it hopes fans will pay a subscription to access.

“Vidme” itself is the name of a failed video platform company that launched in 2014 and collapsed in 2017.

Running a video platform is expensive. Even if Vidme grows, it might find funding its MLM opportunity financially burdensome once a subscriber-base is built (this could get more problematic if a content creator with an existing large subscriber base signs up).

Something to keep in mind both as a Vidme promoter and content consumer.

With respect to MLM due-diligence, the viability of Vidme is a secondary concern to its pyramid recruitment business model.

As with all MLM pyramid schemes, once promoter recruitment dries up so too will commissions.

This will see those at the bottom of the Vidme pyramid stop paying $34.99 a month. Unless new promoters are found, this means promoters above the ones that quit stop getting paid.

Eventually they also stop paying $34.99 a month. Once enough Vidme promoters stop paying fees, an irreversible collapse is triggered.

Math guarantees that when an MLM pyramid scheme collapses, the majority of participants lose money.