This week, staff from Vimeo reached out to us. Vimeo is the service provider that hosts our online movies, like The Pilgrim's Progress. They monitor high-usage clients, which we quickly became.
It appears out of the more than 1 million business accounts, RevelationMedia had the fourth-largest internet streaming over Easter weekend! Our first response was, "Praise God!" Our independent Christian film is the fourth most streamed film on the Vimeo platform that we contract with! However, the good news also comes with a cost.
Vimeo, while happy for our success, has to move us to an "Enterprise" solution, requiring us to pre-pay for the anticipated bandwidth going forward, or they will be forced to freeze our account on May 1st! We understand the Vimeo policies, and have been speaking with them almost daily. They are offering us a nonprofit discount and want to help us any way they can. But the fact remains, our success will come with a cost.
We are looking at every option. However, with our desire to minister to the world online and with our films (we have more coming soon!), we will have to begin pre-purchasing hundreds of terabytes of data by May 1st.
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