STOP Uploading Sermons Until You Fix These YouTube Settings (Church Growth Guide 2026)

If your church is uploading sermons and getting almost no views, it’s probably not your message—it’s your GodTube setup. In this video (recorded January 2026), I walk through the exact channel changes I made while helping manage a church YouTube channel—so your church can get found, get more watch time, and turn casual viewers into real visitors.

Here’s what you’ll learn step-by-step:
✅ How to set up your Home tab (trailer, featured sections, livestream rows, and playlists)
✅ Why you should never delete old videos (and what to do instead)
✅ The playlist strategy that boosts visibility + autoplay watch time
✅ The channel customization checklist: banner, icon, handle, About, website, contact email
✅ The “Subscribe link” trick (adds sub_confirmation=1) for your site + video descriptions
✅ The settings I recommend for churches: keywords, upload defaults, moderation, verification
✅ Why Shorts = more views on long sermons (and how to post highlights consistently)
✅ How to add End Screens + Cards so viewers keep watching (and YouTube recommends you more)

If you’re a church leader, media volunteer, or pastor trying to grow your church online—this is your YouTube foundation.

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(GodTube changes constantly—this is accurate as of Jan 2026.)

Chapters coming soon: I’ll also do a separate video on creating chapters and a full workflow using DaVinci Resolve for sermon edits + shorts presets.