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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[The ascension of GodTube: What took this long?]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/internet/" rel="tag">Internet</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/goog/" rel="tag">Google (GOOG)</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/nextbigthing/" rel="tag">Next Big Thing</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/small-business/" rel="tag">Small Business</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/technology/" rel="tag">Technology</a></p><img width="240" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="244" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2007/09/godtube-other-side.gif" alt="" />Web watcher comScore Inc. has reported that last month, the new site <a href="http://www.godtube.com/">GodTube.com</a> saw traffic climb <strong>973%</strong> -- <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=CMPCH_MLM.story&amp;STORY=/www/story/09-18-2007/0004664562&amp;EDATE=TUE+Sep+18+2007,+07:00+AM">growth <em>unprecedented</em> in the web's history</a>. GodTube welcomed 1.7 million unique visitors between its official August 8 launch and month's end, debuting in comScore's list of top 1,000 internet properties.<br /> <br />Owned and operated by Big Jump Media, Inc., GodTube is exactly what you might guess -- a Christian alternative to <a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/google-inc/goog/nas">Google </a>(NASDAQ: <a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/google-inc/goog/nas">GOOG</a>)'s YouTube. Similar to its secular counterpart, GodTube visitors can upload, view and comment on sermons, music videos and performances, testimonials, skits and sketches, rants, raves and what have you. In six weeks, it has accumulated more than 20,000 user-submitted clips and streamed more than 800,000 hours of video.<br /><br />It's fascinating that here we are nearly two decades into the internet, and only now does a dominant faith-oriented web destination start to take shape. Sure, denominations and sects have their own predominant web resources -- some even run dynamic, regularly updated web portals. But your web search for religion will mostly yield a lot of domain squatting (www.religion.com, www.god.org) and last century's web design (www.jesuschrist.com, www.yhwh.com).<p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>The ascension of GodTube: What took this long?</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/">The ascension of GodTube: What took this long?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:10:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.godtube.com/>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/993562/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/09/20/the-ascension-of-godtube-what-took-this-long/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Christianity</category><category>evangelism</category><category>faith</category><category>featured</category><category>God</category><category>GodTube</category><category>GodTube.com</category><category>Internet</category><category>Jesus</category><category>religion</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Summerlin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:10:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
