Important YouTube Update

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Attention Attention. If you listen to this podcast on YouTube, you need to really listen to this episode. Attention to all YouTube listeners. You need to listen to everything I'm going to say in this episode, or well you may not hear any more episodes. All right, so are you ready to listen? I hope so, I hope I have your attention. Attention all YouTube listeners. It is Tuesday, October fifteenth, twenty twenty four.

0:46 It is currently two forty five pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now coming either this Thursday or next Thursday. There seems to be a little bit of confusion, but either this Thursday or next Thursday, something dramatically is going to change for those who listen to me on YouTube. What's going to change is you're not going to see any new content. It's just no new episodes are going to be uploaded. And I don't even really know what's going to happen to the old episodes, but there's going to be some Well, if you want to listen to me, You're gonna have to find another way.

1:33 Let me explain what's going on. I'm gonna give you some options and tell you what may or may not happen. All right, are you ready? All right? So if you are, if you listen to me on YouTube, here's what's about to happen. I received a notification from our podcast hosting site, which is spreaker. Now, for those who listen to me on YouTube, you may not realize how this works, but the way we ended up on YouTube was not because I'm like, well, we've got to get our content on YouTube. I never even thought about YouTube as really being an option because YouTube is typically for well videos, correct, And I'm an audio podcast. I don't have any desire to set everything up to try to do video. I don't really have any desire to do that, right, So, and I think for most listeners, I don't know. Do a lot of listeners sit there listening to a podcast just watching some person talking into a microphone. I mean, is that like, oh, I've got to watch the video of this guy talking into a microphone. I don't know. I mean, I know a lot of podcasters do that. I don't to me, audio just makes more sense because you can hit play and then you can be doing whatever you're doing.

2:43 I said, I'm like, I'm sitting there watching a video. So I just never thought I had no desire to do video. I had no I didn't really think about being on YouTube. I didn't really I just didn't really give it a much thought or consideration. But our podcasting hosting site, Spreaker, contact to us and said, hey, do you want your content on YouTube? I'm like, well, I mean maybe. They said, well, we can just automatically send your content there. You don't have to do anything. We'll just automatically send it there. You just do your typical broadcasting, your typical uploading, and we'll take care of it. We'll send it to YouTube for you. And I'm like, okay, can't hurt. So they started sending it to YouTube. And it's been there now for year, you know, for I don't even know how many years it's been there, and we never give it any thought. Well, they contacted me this week and said, hey, YouTube has changed its policy and starting either this Thursday or next Thursday, we can no longer just automatically send your content to YouTube. So if you want your content there, You're going to have to find a way to find a file and the right format. It's going to have to be in a video format, and then you're going to have to manually upload it to YouTube. You're going to have to take control of it. You're going to have to take charge of it. You're going to be responsible for it. We're done, right, We're finished. Because YouTube has changed the policy, we can no longer just automatically send your content there. And I'm like, oh boy, so what do I do? Well, I have a couple of options. Well, option number one it's just say, well,

4:14 you know, hey, guys, it was a good run. We were on YouTube the end. If you want to hear my content, here's the other options. Option number two is find a way to upload a video file format, even though it's just audio, but it's in a video file format, upload it to YouTube, and try to maintain it right, which will require a lot of extra work, extra time, and extra effort. And I'll tell you some of my reasons for not doing that. So that's kind of our options. Just be done with YouTube or find a way to keep it going. Now here are my issues with trying to keep it going. If I look at my statistics for YouTube right like, if I look at my statistics right now for US sermonadio dot com. If I look at my statistics right now for.

5:03 Sermonadio dot com, sermonadio dot com right now, at this moment, for October the first to October the fifteenth, so a little less than fifteen days, we've had twenty eight thousand, six hundred and eighty four downloads and streams. Twenty eight thousand, six hundred and eighty four. All right, okay, If I go to YouTube right, if I go to YouTube, and the last twenty eight days, we've only had five hundred and ninety three views. I mean, it's not even in the same ballpark, right, And if I look at my numbers for all the other podcasting apps, we're well over twenty eight thousand and fifteen days, so twenty eight thousand for sermonadio alone, well over twenty eight thousand on all the other podcasting hosting sites and YouTube five hundred and ninety three. So how much effort should I put in for five hundred and ninety three? Well, in some cases, you want to do everything you can for the people who listen on YouTube, but I'll explain why is it really worth it? And this is where the numbers get even more depressing. If I look at the content that has been downloaded, right, if I look at it all, right, here's what you're going to find. The average view duration for our number one downloaded one in the last twenty eight days, which is the Christian and Complete Armor. I don't know which part it was viewed for one minute and sixteen seconds. If I look at John MacArthur the

6:37 Master Seminary, I don't know what I was referring to about on that episode seven minutes and thirty nine seconds. If you look at first John No. Part two two minutes and thirty two, thirty seven seconds, Trump, what's next eleven minutes and twelve seconds? What is that demonstrating? What's demonstrating that? For the In most cases people are looking on it and realizing it's not video and immediately turning it off, or they just hate the sound of my voice. Okay, but I think most of them thinking oh, this is going to be a video, they see it's audio and they're done. Well I'm not. I'm not going to be able to change yet unless I go to a video podcast and I have no desire to go to a video podcast none zero, I don't. I have no desire to do that. It's much. I just prefer the audio.

7:25 I just prefer the audio. I think it's much easier for people to listen to while they're driving or doing whatever instead of a video. So so that tells me the numbers are not great. The time people are actually listening is very very short on average, there's always the exception. So is it worth in the extra time and effort it would require to take to fight to get it in a video format and then upload it directly there. I don't think. I don't think it's really worth it. Now why one of the reason, Now, that's that's one of the reasons that's not worth it. Another reason it's not worth it. And I think this, I think this is fair. Hey, YouTube listeners, you can hear this podcast on every podcasting app on the face of the planet.

8:13 Right We're on Spotify, We're on Pandora, We're on Apple Podcasts. We're just name the pocket cast castro, you just name the podcast app. We're on every single one on earth. We're on the Serious XM app. If you have the Serious XM app. Theology Central is available on a We're available everywhere, so it's not like, well, now some people may do this, Well if you're not on YouTube, I'm just not gonna listen. Well, there's not much I can do about that. But we're available everywhere, and just listen to this when I am done with this broadcast. When I am done with this broadcast, it will literally be somewhere between two to five minutes after I'm done that this episode will be available not only on the Spreaker podcasting app, but most of the podcasting app. Somewhere between two to five minutes pocket cast, it shows up relatively quick overcast, relatively quick castro, relatively quick serious XM app, probably within about ten minutes. So if I even if I was to stay on YouTube, you may get a delay, and I think even fair between thirty minutes to an hour, if not days. Because what I have to do to get it on YouTube starting on Thursday or next Thursday, when whenever our podcasting hosting site stops sending it there automatically is I'm going to have to go to Sermonadio find the archived the archive archive file of this broadcast,

9:47 which is recorded in a video format. Then I'm gonna have to upload the video archived file to sermon audio. So then it's on video. I have to wait for that happen. It's slow. Once it's uploaded, then I have to download the video file, then go to YouTube and then manually upload it. Well, if I'm busy or doing something else, that's not going to take place, and so you're gonna get along delay why. I mean, you can get the content immediately on any other podcasting app. So I just don't know if it's worth it. I may try it just to see how much time is involved and look at it. I just five hundred and ninety three views and twenty eight days versus twenty eight thousand and fifteen days versus I don't know, forty fifty thousand and fifteen days on the other apps, like you know, come on now now. The reason I may think, the reason I kind of want to stay on YouTube is because it's considered the number one search engine. Right. If people are searching for things, they search for it on YouTube other than say TikTok. Well, I don't want to be on TikTok because there's no way This podcast trend slates to five minute video segments. It just does not that.

11:05 It just does not fit that format right YouTube. It may fit other for the fact that you know it's long term. You know long it's a long format. But even there, I mean, we're not a video format. So do I do all that extra work for I mean and now something? Now, to be fair, there are some twenty eight twenty eight day periods where I can get close to one thousand or maybe even close to two thousand views on YouTube. But you know what I have to do. I gotta find the sensational. I gotta find the controversy, the scandal. Right the famous pastor who recently you know, got removed from ministry because of his sin.

11:49 If I would have blasted his name and my titles and talked about it and talked about it, I probably would have well over a thousand. But I would have to be using scandal and someone's fault all for my own benefit. And what what what really information are you communicating? I've been watching the YouTubers talking about it, and it's just like, who we found out this, and oh we found out this, and oh we found out this. Oh it would come on? What do you do other You're just using gossip in the window scandal for your own benefit. No, I no, I'm not playing that game. So I have to be controversial. I have to be I have to be sensational, you know. I have to talk about Trump. I have to talk about the election. I have to talk about you know, scandal. I have to have to have sensation, sensational titles, and then I can get that number on YouTube, well over one thousand. And then what I have to do is make sure when someone makes a comment, I come right back in and if they're snarky, I'm snarky and I because if I can create a little controversy, then I can get the numbers. But do I want that? I I I don't necessarily want that.

12:53 So there's a high probability. I think this is to fair to all YouTube listeners. There's a high probability that probably within two weeks you may see the YouTube channel disappear. So what would I challenge you to do? Well, any podcast app, any if you're a SERIOUSXM subscriber and you use the app, boom, there you go. That's an easy way, right. If you use Spotify, Boom, there you go. I'm right there. If you use any other. If you use Pandora, I'm right there. If you use any other podcasting app, just do a search for Theology Central. You will find us right. Also, we would highly recommend downloading the Church one app. Church O n E all run together, Church O n E.

13:37 Do a search for Theology Central, it becomes the Theology Central app. That's a great way, and you can listen to me live. Also, you can download the Sermons two point oh app. We've been promoting that app like crazy. Download the Sermons two point oh app for you get access to millions of sermons. But do a search for Theology Central, hit follow, and then all of our new content will show up under your feed tab. That's an easy way. The content shows up very quickly, so Church one, Sermon's two point zero. Those are all great ways. You can go to the sermon audio website and do a search for Theology Central. You can find us that way as well. There's lots of different ways to find us, so I would suggest you do that. It'll be interesting to see if anyone any of the YouTube listeners are like no, please, I mean, I mean, well, I think most of them probably just don't care. There's a few who I know, definitely listen to us on YouTube. I think they're probably I bet you there's less than ten, maybe even less than five that like they always listen to us on YouTube. Most people, I think listen to us on other platforms. YouTube is great for people to find our content, right, but guess what they do a search?

14:53 They think it's video, they click on it, it's not video. They turn it off. I can't blame them video site, right, So it would be you know, so I don't know. We will see, we will look around, and I'm I'm a try it, but I just I'm just looking at the Those numbers are pretty depressing. Those numbers are pretty depressing. Five hundred ninety three and twenty eight days. I mean, you've got to understand why that would be frustrating for me when I can just look on the other platform, the sermon audio platform, and we're almost at a We're almost at thirty thousand and fifteen days, and I can look at all look at the stats from all of the other podcasting apps, well over thirty thousand, So you know, you know, hey, do I spend all this extra time where I can possibly get five hundred and ninety three views, where the average time is about four minutes of engaging my content. Or can I go to all these other podcasting apps where it's in the thousands and thousands and thousands, we're, you know, listed as one of the top a podcast in the top five percent of all podcasts on the internet. Well, that's not because of YouTube, all right. That's we're not in the top five percent of all podcasts because of YouTube.

16:09 We are there because of other podcasting apps, all right. That's that's where we're there. In fact, if I look, I can even tell you. I can tell you we're our number one where people listen to us the most. I can tell you right now, hang on, give me one second. I have to log in here. I got logged out of our podcast hosting site. I can tell you in just a second. I can tell you in just a second, I didn't know I was logged out. All right, here we go. I can go to my podcast. There is Theology Central.

16:50 I can click on that. I can go to statistics, I can go to more. I can go to. Sources. Apple podcast hands down, hands down is number one. Guess what number two is, Ladies and Gentlemen, Serious XM, Serious XM is number two. That is crazy. Guess what number three, Pandora, So are the where people listen to us the most is Apple Serious XM. Those numbers are crazy for Serious XM. Just today for Serious XM is three thousand, five hundred and sixty nine. That's nuts, all right, Yeah, we're for for We're we're at uh wow, we're okay. Yeah, I can look at some of the numbers here. Well you know we're close to five hundred thousand, okay, So yeah, so I mean that's where that's where that's crazy. I didn't know, Sirius XM was way up there. So yeah, that we've got we're available on a lot of places, and so I just don't and like if I even look here, YouTube does not even show up. Like if I look here, no.

18:15 Yeah, YouTube is not in the top one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen seventy. It's not even in the top twenty ladies and gentlemen. So yeah, there's no Yeah, that's I'm kind of convincing myself. But to say it all this, I will just wrap it up this way because I didn't want to, you know, do this anyway. But the reason I'm doing this now is where this will be uploaded to YouTube, so that YouTube listeners know what's going on, because after Thursday or next Thursday, it's going to be hard for me to let you know. So I'm trying to let you know. So all attention, all YouTube listeners. If you appreciate the Theology Central podcast, I mean, you would like to continue to listen to it, please consider a podcasting app. It can be Apple, it can be Spotify, Pandora, pocket Cast, you name the app, we are there. If you are a serious exem subscriber and you use the app, please look for Theology Central. You can listen to us there, or you can download the Church one app Church O n E. Do a search for Theology Central. You can download the Sermons two point oh app. Look for Theology Central.

19:26 You can go to the sermonaudio website look for Theology Central. And if you need any help, you can always contact me and I will do my very best to help you find our content. So, if you are a YouTube listener and you're like, well, I want to keep listening, where can I find you? You can email me at newsif at yahoo dot com. That's news if news, if newsif at yahoo dot com and tell me what you have available, and I will help you find our content. I hate that because my philosophy has always been make our content available on every platform on earth. But at the same time, you have to just look at how much time and effort you're going to put into it and what you're getting out of it. Right now, YouTube is not even it's not even scratching the surface. So we're probably going to say goodbye to all of that, and then hopefully we'll see a increase, Hopefully we will see an increase of people listening on the other.

20:31 Platforms, hopefully, hopefully, we are hoping. It'll be interesting to see how many people on YouTube even care, right So, I bet you between three to five three people, three three to five people, that's what I think. And I think most others are not going to care, And I think most others are not going to follow us on YouTube anyway. I think we're just kind of a curiosity there and that some people are searching for things find us and kind of go, oh, well, this is not video. I don't care and there's nothing I can do to fix that. And you say, well, but if you uploaded, it would be in a video format. It wouldn't be it would be in a video format, but it would still just be audio. So and you could say, well you should do a video podcast. No I'm not ex so there you go.

21:16 All right, there we go. There that's that's the update. So if you have any questions, let me know. Everyone, have a great day, continue to listen, continue to listen. And for anyone listening, I do love to know how you found us, like was it a YouTube search? How did you find us? And how do you listen? We always love that information. I always love it because that gives me some idea like oh, this is the platform, or I haven't looked at the statistics in forever. I had no idea that SiriusXM was had Wow, look what is going on there? Like what's happening there? That's I mean, I always thought it would be cool to be on SiriusXM. I always thought it would be cool.

21:58 I had no idea that now is number two and the Apple podcasting app that's that's still our number one platform. That's still the number one. So that's that's awesome. Hey, And for those who listen on the Apple podcasting app, Hey, please give us five star rating? Please oky, please please please, please, please please please. I was asking Ai about the Theology Central podcast and it was saying, hey, you're well, you know you're on this list. You're on this list, you know what, not saying me because a I didn't know it was me at the time, so it was just saying, the Theology Central podcast is doing very well. However, it's only got like I think three point five stars on Apple Podcasts, and I'm like, come on, now, come on, maybe you don't like the podcast, do you have to give it only three one star? Come on? Can we get to five stars? Come on? Please? All right, but the rating, even if you give me a bad rating, the more ratings, the more activity and the algorithms pick it up. So if you use, if you listen to us on Apple, please give us five stars. Spotify I think now has thumbs up or thumbs down or star ratings.

23:08 I think as well. And then Pandora. Whoo, the thumbs down on Pandora. Those numbers are astronomical. Those numbers are done. I don't even look anymore. They got so depressing because people get they don't like what I have to say, which you know that's kind of normal. All right, there you go, everyone, Thanks for listening. Everyone have a great day, and if we get a chance, we'll do some more broadcasting today. Maybe I don't know. Things haven't quite worked out today, but I wanted to at least get this out of the way, so everyone have a great day. If you have any questions, let me know. Attention, YouTube listeners, go find a different platform because YouTube has changed its policy and the way my content is now put there is by our podcast hosting site, which does it automatically for me. That's no longer going to happen, which means I don't know if any more content is going to go there, and I don't even know what's going to happen to the old content. So if you like this podcast, go find another place listen. And we greatly appreciate anyone who supports it. To the listener in Ohio who just sent a check, I'm very appreciative of that and I need to get that deposited in the bank as soon as possible. But thank you so very much for that.

24:25 It's always beneficial and helpful. All right, everyone, have a great day. God bless