Customers usually ask this as "how do I archive Season 1 before I add Season 2?". The short answer: you do not need to, and there is nothing to delete on either side.
A season is a playlist, a playlist is a showcase, and every playlist has an on/off toggle. Toggling a playlist off is not destructive. It stops feeding videos into your app but stays saved on your account, and you can switch it back on any time. That toggle already is your archive.
Your Vimeo files are never touched by any of this.
Publishing the new season
In Vimeo: create a new showcase for the season and upload the episodes into it, in episode order. Privacy needs to be Unlisted or better, or we cannot fetch them.
In your dashboard: add the showcase as a new playlist and switch it on. It shows up as its own row in the app.
Switch on autoplay for that playlist if you want the season to play continuously.
Move it to the top of your playlist order so the new season is what viewers land on first. The row order in your app follows the playlist order in the dashboard.
What to do with the old season
Both of these are normal. It is a content decision, not a technical one.
What you want | What to do |
Viewers can still watch it (what we would usually suggest for an episodic series) | Leave its toggle on. Both seasons sit side by side as separate rows. |
Keep the app focused on the current season | Switch its toggle off. It leaves the app, stays on your account, fully reversible. |
Worth a thought before you switch anything off: more content on screen is also what makes the grid layout look full. An app with two seasons showing looks considerably more substantial than one with a single row, and back-catalogue episodes tend to keep getting watched long after they aired.
If you do switch a season off and change your mind in six months, it is one click to bring it back, exactly as it was.
Planning a bigger restructure, like splitting one long archive into several seasons? Reply here and we will sketch the playlist layout with you before you start moving things in Vimeo.