That's a lot of money for servers?

https://HiveStreams.Live ( @hivestreams ) can or will be doing most of these things, but we won't be storing bulk video, that's what costs a fortune. There are places to dump people's 7 hour long minecraft lets-play videos that no one will ever watch again anyway for free already, like youtube. With HiveStreams.Live, we'll focus on providing a streaming and show chat hub, and let the folks with recordable, reusable stream content edit it post-show and put it wherever they want after that. I think that will save the platform a ton of cash otherwise needlessly spent housing old video nobody is loading up, or worse, streaming those 7 hour replays while they fall asleep to them and leave them sucking bandwidth and storage costs up for no solid reason. That is why HiveStreams.live just focuses on streaming and blockchain transaction and posting integration, not storing replays and VoDs, only short channel trailers and intro clips to market the streaming channels with, limiting users to only a few short prerecorded clips, but the throttle is wide open for live streaming and transacting on the chain for tips, channel subscriptions (like Patreon sort of) and sponsors and curation of stream posts and all that stuff.

Best of luck with your proposals and Amazon bills though, that sucks. We used to pay for Royalties for commercial music when I built and established MSP Waves 7 years ago and those costs alone were astronomical. This time around, the content creators can cover their own commercial music licensing with the modern available 3rd party song licensing services or royalty free libraries, or better still, live Hive musicians on streams! We're more "TV" that have you have to watch on time, or catch a rerun on an affiliate, than a one stop YouTube.

I think from experience, keeping those costs lower will serve you well longer term, and allow you to serve the community well, longer term as well.

Anyway, good luck with your next chapter for Vimm and stuff!

See you in the streams!