{"id":2701,"date":"2007-07-26T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T15:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:21:36","slug":"promoting-your-church-with-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/promoting-your-church-with-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting your church with YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about using YouTube and viral marketing last November<\/a> to advertise your church — and now a church in Boston is putting this into practice (not claiming any influence on their decision at all – just saying).
\nGreater Boston Vineyard is encouraging folks to make promotional videos for their fall kickoff, which takes place on Sept. 9 (encounter’s<\/a> 3 year anniversary – woot!).
\nFolks are then encouraged to post their video to YouTube and get as many people to view and rate the videos as possible. The winning video (top rated) gets $500.
\nFrom the church<\/span>:<\/p>\n

We thought it might be fun to experiment with some new, grass-roots, technology-enhanced “word-of-mouth” advertising techniques. Thus… we’re having a “Cheesy YouTube Video Contest” for our fall kick-off this year. This year’s fall kick-off is happening September 9th at both sites.
\nHere’s how it works:
\nMake a video that promotes the Vineyard’s September 9th service in some way.
\nSubmit your video to our YouTube group: www.youtube.com\/group\/vineyardvideocontest
\nGet lots and lots of people you know to watch and rate your video (YouTube has a built in rating system of 1 to 5 stars).
\nThis is a REAL contest with REAL prize money! If your video winds up with the highest rating, then you could win $500!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How would you advertise your church? Come on – bust out your video camera and start making your own commercial. Or if you’re a Flash genius, do like this guy did<\/a> and make your own Flash ad. And if nothing else, get out and make something with MS Paint or your favorite graphic software. Make a banner for your website, email, Myspace or whatever then show us what you got.<\/p>\n

Here’s the viral iPod video made by George Masters’ that’s mentioned in the Wired article above:
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I wrote about using YouTube and viral marketing last November to advertise your church — and now a church in Boston is putting this into practice (not claiming any influence on their decision at all – just saying). Greater Boston Vineyard is encouraging folks to make promotional videos for their fall kickoff, which takes place … Continue reading Promoting your church with YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}