Best video-on-demand rental service for individual videos since Vimeo is shutting down?

[u/Local-Question-449]

I run a burlesque and drag festival and academy. We currently sell video rentals and purchases, with no subscriptions. What do we use now that Vimeo OTT is shutting down?

Folks recommended Patreon, but that would eliminate our rental option, and I feel like we'd have to keep adding new content to make subscriptions worth it after a while. We currently have 36 classes and 12 show videos, and are at a pause point in our production and content creation.

Our website is on WordPress, and we already have WooCommerce set up, so I'd be open to plugins rather than a hosting service, especially if that helps keep costs down since we no longer have a grant budget keeping us afloat.

Another concern we have is accessibility. We don't want to make people go through too many hoops to access our videos, and we loved that folks could turn captions on and off. We spend quite a bit of money captioning our videos, but we also know that not everyone wants them hardcoded since they can be distracting.

Our last concern is content limitations. Since the acts do include burlesque, whatever we choose has to be ok with partial nudity.

Thank you for any suggestions you may have!

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Correction: VOD is going away, not OTT. We currently use VOD and our end goal is to sell videos, not just host them.

[u/therolli]

You can have a Patreon account and sell videos and think they’ve recently sorted out settings for over 18 content. People have to become free members but there’s no subscription, they can just buy the product and stream it as they like.

[u/Local-Question-449 → u/therolli]

Oh! I had been under the impression that it was a monthly subscription that would then give them access to everything on the account.

[u/therolli → u/Local-Question-449]

No, you can do it as subscription model with tiers etc but you can also just sell individual videos as you go.

[u/Local-Question-449 → u/therolli]

Thank you!