Monarch Beach, CA - April 1, 2026 - Churches of all sizes are facing the same production challenge: how to manage rapidly growing volumes of high-resolution media while keeping teams focused on ministry — not infrastructure. In the past 60 days, five churches ranging from multi-campus megachurches to small teams comprised of editors and volunteers — have turned to DigitalGlue’s creative.space Platform to centralize storage, streamline workflows, and eliminate operational friction. DigitalGlue’s creative.space Storage (CSS) is more than a storage solution; it’s an all-inclusive service complete with 24/7 proactive support.
While each church differs in size, budget, and production scale, their goals are remarkably similar: eliminate fragmented workflows, reduce unnecessary costs, simplify collaboration, and ensure that technology enables — rather than distracts from — storytelling and ministry.
At Rock City Church, Sunday production alone captures up to 30–50TB of 4K60 footage across multiple services. With 12 recorders capturing ISOs, program feeds, clean feeds, alpha channels and graphics, files were being written to individual SSDs without a centralized system to manage or store them. Editors physically transported drives to remote work locations, inhibiting access, slowing turnaround and complicating collaboration. In addition, there was a distinct workflow and tool disconnect between Sunday production and creative projects — creating more complexity.
Rock City turned to creative.space Storage (CSS) for a single platform that quickly pulls media into shared storage for immediate access. By implementing CSS as a centralized, large-scale media platform with over a petabyte of capacity, Sunday production and creative storytelling workflows now reside in a single environment supported by the platform’s 24/7 system monitoring and remote support. Editors can access content immediately through shared storage — eliminating manual drive handling and enabling the team to focus on crafting impactful content rather than managing hardware.
For Action Church, the challenge was different but equally significant. As a small team where members often wear multiple hats, maximizing efficiency is critical. They were losing valuable time each week transferring massive amounts of data between sites, and their reliance on disparate cloud-based services was triggering budget concerns. By consolidating storage, collaboration, and remote access into the creative.space platform, Action Church reduced recurring expenses while completely overhauling their efficiency. The platform also enabled a brand-new distribution workflow, allowing non-technical departments to securely access completed assets—like graphics—directly from the server rather than hunting through Slack threads or email chains.
“Being able to create dedicated Spaces with role-based permissions, handle media tagging and review, and assign specific ingest workflows all inside one system has completely changed how we operate, simplifying our workflow,” said Peyton Thomas of Action Church. “The modern, intuitive UI makes it easy for our team to stay organized and move fast without needing constant oversight.”
Generation Church was straining under the pressure of archiving issues and a nearly full NAS when they turned to creative.space Storage (CSS). With only two editors handling Ultra HD and 6K production formats, the church needed centralized storage that could support collaboration without compromising speed. DigitalGlue’s CSS provided a cost-effective, expandable platform with both local and remote access capabilities, along with an integrated path to long-term archiving. The team can now scale production confidently without hitting storage ceilings or workflow bottlenecks and easily add more volunteer editors.
For a massive operation like Saddleback Church, the technical burden of managing their enormous media output had reached a tipping point. Their video infrastructure was heavily segmented across several different processes and systems. This fragmented setup — which included a complex and expensive storage node cluster, an outdated Media Asset Management (MAM) system, and tape libraries—had become labor-intensive and prohibitively expensive to maintain. Saddleback was also fighting steep vendor lock-in, facing a reality where canceling their costly annual storage subscriptions would essentially render their expensive hardware unmanageable. Compounding the financial strain were severe workflow bottlenecks: editors were bogged down by manual asset tagging, frustratingly slow file transfers, and a limited remote access setup that hindered collaboration. They urgently needed to escape the cycle of IT management so their team could refocus on their core mission.
By migrating to creative.space Storage, Saddleback Church brought their entire workflow “under one roof,” says Greg Baker, Production Systems Director, “eliminating these operational hurdles and drastically simplifying their editing and storage processes.” DigitalGlue deployed a redundant hardware architecture that can seamlessly expand as their media library grows. Beyond just centralizing storage, Saddleback is looking to replace their legacy MAM with an intelligent, integrated system featuring automated metadata extraction and advanced search capabilities — creative.space Intelligence. Remote editors now benefit from a built-in VPN and dedicated desktop app for direct access to original files without syncing, while Adobe Creative Cloud users enjoy optimized performance configurations. Backed by DigitalGlue’s 24/7 proactive monitoring of over 3,000 system points, Saddleback’s team is now completely freed from the anxiety of IT maintenance, empowering them to focus entirely on creative storytelling and ministry.
For smaller teams like Community Bible Church, the priority was growth and clarity. With only two simultaneous users and limited NAS infrastructure, storage clutter and retrieval confusion were a concern. Because creative.space Storage standardizes its software across all systems, Community Bible Church utilizes the exact same advanced features, remote access tools, and 24/7 support as a megachurch like Saddleback. The only difference is the physical storage capacity, ensuring that a smaller budget never means compromising on a professional, enterprise-level experience. After a short trial period, the church adopted DigitalGlue’s CSS as an expandable, centralized platform. Installation, training, and proactive monitoring gave the church confidence to commit to a solution that could grow along with them.
“These churches may be drastically different in size, location, and audience, but they share similar challenges: centralized storage, simplified workflows, and predictable costs,” said Sean Busby, co-founder and president at DigitalGlue. “By unifying storage, asset management, remote access, and proactive monitoring into one platform, creative.space Storage supports all environments, from single-location bible-study groups to multi-location mega-churches. DigitalGlue’s CSS provides the tools teams need to focus on storytelling, connection, and ministry so they need not worry about technology.”
As faith-based production continues to evolve, churches are proving that scalable, intelligent storage infrastructure is no longer optional — it is foundational to modern ministry.
