Live streaming is rising, which has triggered the growth of mobile video collectively. Consumers are more frequently watching content on their smartphones and tablets, which has forced companies to change their approaches. Live streaming is a focal point for big companies. They are projecting streaming videos to be a top advertising tool 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.
On the list of HUGE thing that is helping video content to become so well received is the popularity of mobile video viewing. Google and also other search engines are looking at how contents fits on mobile devices. Church targeted audience is now focus on young and on the go people. As video becomes mobile-first, you will continue to see large online companies and churches switch more to video content. Our consumers are broadcasting to Facebook, Ustream and YouTube. I expect this to get more and more common for places of worships. Reaching teenagers 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 not only serves to 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 attention.
Figures show live video is more attractive 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 images combined.
The Live chat options is critical for religious leaders which allow someone belonging to the broadcasting church to interact with followers instantly. It’s also easy to implement 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 worshipers to watch services in their own language, expanding reach exponentially. While on demand video catch-up means messages endure long after the broadcast has expired.
All of these features are easy to implement and enable churches not only to enhance their live streams and also add meaning and value for their followers. Some organizations are expanding their teaching in other ways.
There are those large churches that have been using this technology for an extended period of time now and are expanding their offering. You can also 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 go toe to toe 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 sort of video archived or live streaming. As stated by one of the major internet backbone carrier. Their projection is by 2020 video streaming will be 80 % of the internet traffic.
Any ministry that would like to outreach on the internet and in their community shouldn’t ignore the power of some kind of live or archived video storage online. You might use it to do many things. One may use these videos for retirement communities that have a worship hall. This give them the abilities to host church service on location which will eradicate the need to transport their members to a church. The same is possible for Ronald McDonald House, senior centers, foreign missions and a whole host of community outreach programs.
Good quality online church broadcast is a superb way to draw new people to your ministry. Churches which are growing and thriving with live streams must have a great presentation. It’s very important to make effort to put out the very best presentation to the audience. Because if it is not of a elevated level you will turn potential new members off. So it is tremendously imperative that you 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 those who cannot sing or speak may have worked or hold people in the physical church, but not people online. They are able to easily move on to another church website that will give them a greater presentation. It doesn’t necessarily 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 appealing, then there are a lot of advantages you will enjoyed. First people will give to your ministry because people like when churches or corporations are well organized. You’ll draw new members because people love to be 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 will 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 inspire them to come and join that ministry.
If everything is aligned as per the above recommendations, I believe 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 news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.