Remote work surged fast—by June 2020, as much as 42% of the US workforce was working remotely—and VPN usage spiked right along with it (up 124% per week back in March 2020). This animation shows the predictable result: saturated VPN infrastructure, slower network access, grumpy users, and rising costs from forcing all traffic through the office. The fix is split-tunnel VPN: keep line-of-business apps and data going through the VPN, while everything else—Windows updates, cloud apps like Office 365, personal websites, and even packaged apps delivered via Microsoft Endpoint Manager—goes straight to the internet. More throughput where it matters, less pain everywhere else.
We produced this as a quick-hit explainer that takes a very “ugh” IT problem and turns it into a simple, actionable story. In preproduction, we shaped the narrative around the stats, the bottleneck, and the clear remedy—then designed visuals that make the traffic-routing concept instantly legible (so nobody has to imagine packets doing interpretive dance). We paired professional voiceover with supportive music, kept the animation clean and purposeful, and finished with sound polish that makes the message land crisply. After streamlined review loops, we delivered the final with closed captions, audio description, and thumbnails—ready to deploy wherever your audience is feeling that VPN strain.
The inevitable sequels
Hollywood keeps stretching good ideas into progressively worse sequels. We don’t. These are the related videos—spiritual siblings of the one you just watched—as good or better than this video. Expect callbacks, new plot twists, and maybe even a scene-stealing cameo from a lower third.
