How To Make a Successful Christian YouTube Channel

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0:00 Mike's story 9:00 Huge key is consistency over time; Create content that really helps people 11:00 Define a target audience; "What do I wish I had?"; Get a footing in a niche, you are not trying to appeal to everybody 11:47 Choose your audience. "If you try to reach everybody, nobody says, 'That's for me.'" Write out as detailed description as you can of your ideal viewer 17:05 If you want to primarily reach non-believers, have positive confict on your channel, as well as humanize the "other side" with videos showing interaction 18:53 Balancing what gets clicks vs representing things in a straightforward way 21:21 Thumbnails. Don't repeat Title in the thumbnail. Make the thumbnail and title a happy sandwich. Make the payoff from the thumbnail immediate as the video starts 24:04 Payoffs. "Here's what you're going to get from this video" 27:15 Breaking up the pace during thick content (the cat!) 29:34 Balancing being strategic with making content. Looking at analytics every day to see what videos are doing well. Looking at clickthrough rate of Title/Thumb. Consider changing if less than 3-5%. Look at how topics are performing 31:24 Using timestamps to create chapters in your videos 34:10 What am I good at? 35:35 Discussion on length of videos 38:23 How do we more effectively use YouTube? (emphasis on being short on time) 45:20 Making content for individuals instead of for groups 50:12 The current Christian landscape on YouTube 52:30 How do you fund your ministry? 56:18 Does YouTube ever demonetize your videos? 59:59 How do you decide on content to create? (Based on need and ability) 1:02:42 Ways to help YouTube apologetics. Donate, volunteer, give feedback or support Many thanks to the YouTube channel "Theology, Apologetics, & Life with Christian Josh", for providing these timestamps to help others!. Many people would think a channel like mine simply wouldn't work on YouTube. But it does. And yours can too! Here's some tips and wisdom on how to make it on YouTube as a channel that is overtly Christian. I have a lot more I could share about this stuff so I might make more content in the future to offer help. I highly recommend you check out Sean McDowell's content. He has really helpful stuff and the more support he gets the more content he is likely to make! Let's encourage him! https://www.youtube.com/user/Seanmcdowell76 My website https://BibleThinker.org