Live streaming is on the rise, which has contributed to the growth of mobile video as a whole. Lots of people are more frequently watching content on his or her smartphones and tablets, which has forced companies to change their approaches. Live streaming has turned into a focal point for large companies. They are projecting streaming videos to be a top promotion in the future. Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and YouTube invest significant sums of money into building and enhancing their live stream platforms, according to the Financial Times.
One of the HUGE thing that’s helping video content to become so well received is the increased amount of mobile video viewing. Google as well as other search engines are looking at how contents fits on mobile devices. Church targeted audience is focus on young and on the go people. As video becomes mobile-first, you will continue to notice large online companies and churches switch more to video content. Our customers are broadcasting to Facebook, Ustream and YouTube. I expect this to become more and more common for places of worships. Reaching teens is a huge segment of the population that stream videos. This means the preacher must be articulate with a personality that they can feel during Live streaming.
Live streaming may be a low-cost, easy-to-implement solution which simply not only expands reach for religious organizations but strengthens existing communities. In the modern world, churches are like any other businesses competing with other churches for hearts, minds – and ever-diminishing focus.
Figures indicate that live video is more irresistible to audiences: 80% would rather watch live video than read written text, for example, while Facebook estimates that nearly 80% of online audiences are busy watching videos. Broadcasting via social media also facilitates sharing, providing churches with an invaluable tool for spreading the word; social video generates 1200% more shares than text and drawings combined.
The Live chat options is critical for religious leaders which enable someone from the broadcasting church to interact with followers live. It’s also easy to include in online donations during or after broadcasts, helping religious bodies fund their growth while enabling followers to play a role by contributing. Simultaneous multilingual streams enable worshippers to view services in their language, expanding reach exponentially. While on demand video catch-up means messages endure long after the broadcast is finished.
All this functionality are easy to implement and enable churches not only to enhance their live streams but also add meaning and value for their followers. Some organizations are expanding their teaching in other ways.
There are those large churches which have been using this technology for quite a time now and are expanding their offering. You will find new smaller organizations that just start their live online church streaming ministries videos broadcast. The low cost now is helping small budget churches to compete with larger more visible churches. This has help organizations everywhere to use their online ministry as an outreach tool. Most major platforms now seem to be offering some form of video archived or live streaming. As per one of the major internet backbone carrier. Their projection is by 2020 video streaming will be 80 % of the web traffic.
Any ministry that would intend to outreach on the internet and in their community shouldn’t ignore the power of some type of live or archived video storage online. You may use it to do many things. You can use these videos for rest homes that have a worship hall. This provide them with the abilities to host church service on location which will take away the need to transport their members to a church. The same is feasible for Ronald McDonald House, senior centers, foreign missions and a whole host of community outreach programs.
Great quality online church broadcast is a superb way to draw new people to your ministry. Churches that are growing and thriving with live streams need to have a great presentation. It’s very important to make effort to put out the best presentation to the audience. Because if it is not of a very high level you will turn potential newbies off. So it is tremendously important to make sure the presentation is at a very high level because it has to be able to hold the attention of the people who newly discover your ministry online. Pointing your live feed to a banner or having individuals who cannot sing or speak may have worked or hold people in the physical church, but not people online. They’ll easily move on to another church website that will give them a greater presentation. It doesn’t matter your denomination. Catholic, Baptist, Christian – no denomination, Pentecostal, Churches of Christ, Nondenominational, Evangelical, Church of God, Holiness/Holy, Full Gospel, Independent Christian Church, Born Again or any other name that name Jesus Christ as their personal savior, the broadcast has to be perfect or else new people will not stay after they tune in.
When your live broadcast is attractive, then there are numerous advantages you will enjoyed. First people will give to your ministry because people like when churches or corporations are well organized. You will definitely draw new members because people love to be a part of something good. Your current members will refer families and friends to the ministry because it makes them proud to be part of something good. They’ll post links of your to social sites and send it in emails to friends, family, co-workers and everyone they know. If your members are excited, their excitement will rub off on their friends. This will even go further than just online. Once new members start visiting your physical location your members will spread their enthusiasm to them which will encourage them to come and join that ministry.
If everything is aligned as per the above recommendations, I think your ministry proliferates locally and nationally. Streaming Churches Online would love to broadcast your ministry on our website and give you the notoriety your ministry deserved to spread the word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.