Is Livestreaming Right For Your Church? A Short Guide

• Three reasons why you should use livestream
• Whether or not your church should livestream
• How to livestream at your church

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Is Livestreaming Right for Your Church? A Short Guide

Three reasons why you should use livestream

It’s essential to know the why behind what you want to do.

So, why should your church use livestreaming?

Here are three of the most common reasons:

#1 – People watch (a lot) of video

Here’s something you may have noticed:

We are slowly becoming a video world.

Think about it.

Everywhere you turn, you have access to a screen that can play a video. From televisions throughout your home, to mobile devices (phones, iPods, tablets), computers at work, and screens in businesses and public places, videos are constantly vying for our attention.

Not convinced?

Then take a sip of these sobering statistics:

• Nearly 58 percent of worldwide Internet usage consists of video streaming (Global Internet Phenomena Report)
• 45 percent of people watch more than an hour of Facebook or YouTube videos every week (WordStream)
• More than 500 million hours of videos are watched on YouTube every day (Business Insider)
• 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds

Know what else?

We haven’t reached the limit of videos.

According to one study, video streaming is predicted to make up 82 percent of all Internet traffic in the next few years.

This deluge of video has molded the way everyone (including yourself) interacts with the world around them. In short, we are growing to prefer consuming video for nearly everything.