Thank you for your videos! I am not a church, but I've started a channel hoping to offer teens and parents of teens encouragement and advice on life's challenges from a biblical perspective. Do you have any advice on how I can increase audience engagement?
That’s an awesome mission! Reaching teens and parents with biblical encouragement is so needed. To boost engagement, try creating short, relatable content that speaks directly to their struggles, ask questions to spark conversations, and go live occasionally to connect in real time. Also, consistency is key-keep showing up! Praying for impact on your channel! 🙌
I strongly disagree with your church livestream statements. I attend a small church (Topeka KS) and we have livestreamed for many years, and continue to livestream to reach those who can't make it to church. We don't post on TH-cam. We post the livestream link on our FB Group page, but don't stream over FB. We upload our live stream to an online Microsoft file storage via MS Teams. After the the service we post the link to the file on our congregation website Livestream Library. Our worship livestream is not a professional production but a video recording of the same worship service you would have if you attend in person. We are all volunteer staff. Our production cost is zero as we have free software.
@@reachright NO, just total views to the Microsoft file of the livestream video. We do get periodic feedback via our social media from people outside of our service area who watch our livestream. We send out a text message (via Text-in-Church) @ 9:30 AM with the link to our FB group page and a reminder the service starts in an hour. We have some who live out of our service area who have subscribed to this text feed.
@@reachright We are a small group of all volunteers. (about 30 in person on a Sunday morning.) I do all of the social media (Instagram, Facebook, Threads, X, Pinterest) and our congregation website. I also do this for a church plant in a near by community that stopped due to Covid and hope to restart at some point. The church plant was also all volunteer staff. I also manage the Google grant for our congregation for the past three years. I am retired, but this is a full time job. We used to livestream directly via FB but too many problems with pranksters blocking our livestream claiming copyright issues. That is why we shifted to the methodology we use now. I have been thinking about TH-cam but don't have the time to do it right. Our ministers (all volunteer) are assigned to preach on a specific Sunday via our worship coordinator. There would be no pastor preaching series to post clips on social media or TH-cam.
Does your church currently use social media trends to attract new followers?
Thank you for your videos! I am not a church, but I've started a channel hoping to offer teens and parents of teens encouragement and advice on life's challenges from a biblical perspective. Do you have any advice on how I can increase audience engagement?
That’s an awesome mission! Reaching teens and parents with biblical encouragement is so needed. To boost engagement, try creating short, relatable content that speaks directly to their struggles, ask questions to spark conversations, and go live occasionally to connect in real time. Also, consistency is key-keep showing up! Praying for impact on your channel! 🙌
@@reachright Thank you so much!
I strongly disagree with your church livestream statements. I attend a small church (Topeka KS) and we have livestreamed for many years, and continue to livestream to reach those who can't make it to church. We don't post on TH-cam. We post the livestream link on our FB Group page, but don't stream over FB. We upload our live stream to an online Microsoft file storage via MS Teams. After the the service we post the link to the file on our congregation website Livestream Library. Our worship livestream is not a professional production but a video recording of the same worship service you would have if you attend in person. We are all volunteer staff. Our production cost is zero as we have free software.
So glad it's working for you.
Quick question? - Do you have any stats on how many people watch live vs on demand?
Also curious... why not post to TH-cam? Seems like low hanging fruit for more people to hear the Gospel.
@@reachright NO, just total views to the Microsoft file of the livestream video. We do get periodic feedback via our social media from people outside of our service area who watch our livestream. We send out a text message (via Text-in-Church) @ 9:30 AM with the link to our FB group page and a reminder the service starts in an hour. We have some who live out of our service area who have subscribed to this text feed.
@@reachright We are a small group of all volunteers. (about 30 in person on a Sunday morning.) I do all of the social media (Instagram, Facebook, Threads, X, Pinterest) and our congregation website. I also do this for a church plant in a near by community that stopped due to Covid and hope to restart at some point. The church plant was also all volunteer staff. I also manage the Google grant for our congregation for the past three years. I am retired, but this is a full time job. We used to livestream directly via FB but too many problems with pranksters blocking our livestream claiming copyright issues. That is why we shifted to the methodology we use now. I have been thinking about TH-cam but don't have the time to do it right. Our ministers (all volunteer) are assigned to preach on a specific Sunday via our worship coordinator. There would be no pastor preaching series to post clips on social media or TH-cam.