diff --git a/lib/chatmeter/api.rb b/lib/chatmeter/api.rb
index ad0c302..67b0788 100644
--- a/lib/chatmeter/api.rb
+++ b/lib/chatmeter/api.rb
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ def request(params, &block)
 
       if response.body && !response.body.empty?
         begin
-          response_body = MultiJson.load(response.body, symbolize_keys: true)
+          response_body_json = gunzip_response_body(response)
+          response_body = MultiJson.load(response_body_json, symbolize_keys: true)
         rescue
           if response.headers['Content-Type'] === 'application/json'
             raise
@@ -105,5 +106,16 @@ def request(params, &block)
       @connection.reset
       response_body || ""
     end
+
+    # Chatmeter has started to gzip some (but not all) response bodies. So, now we need to deal with that too.
+    def gunzip_response_body(response)
+      if response.headers['Content-Encoding'] == 'gzip'
+        sio = StringIO.new( response.body )
+        gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new( sio )
+        gz.read()
+      else
+        response.body
+      end
+    end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/chatmeter/version.rb b/lib/chatmeter/version.rb
index 9f7b177..e3cf588 100644
--- a/lib/chatmeter/version.rb
+++ b/lib/chatmeter/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Chatmeter
-  VERSION = "1.3.5"
+  VERSION = "1.4.0-pre"
 end