How to Put a Video on a Church Website in 4 Easy Steps
ByHere’s the easiest way I know how to put short videos — like a sermon series promo trailer or other promotional clip — on your church’s website.
Brace yourself because it’s incredibly simple … and because of its utter simplicity, you may think: “I knew that.”
Here are the four super easy steps to putting a video on your church website:
1. Signup for a free YouTube account.
2. Upload your video.
3. Copy and paste the embed code into a page on your church website.
4. Done, finished, viola!
The tradeoff for using YouTube’s bandwidth and storage space is you are limited to 10 minutes clips, so it’s not a solution for longer clips, like sermon videos.
[Update: By applying for a YouTube Director's account, you can get this restriction removed. Thanks to Jason for the tip!]
Here’s an example of a promotional video that I uploaded to YouTube and how it could look on your church website:
If you’re uploading original content, you can sign up for a YouTube Director account which removes the 10 minute limitation. We’ve used YouTube for several longer videos at http://www.xlwired.com (http://www.youtube.com/xlwired)
Jason, thanks for the tip … I updated the post. It took a minute to find the Director upgrade application.
Ha! “4. Done, finished, [slightly larger relative of the violin]!”
–Josh
Ha! “4. Done, finished, [slightly larger relative of the violin]!”
Please don’t read into the fact that this is the primary thing I took away from your post. It’s just one of those days!
–Josh
Dude, that video was seriously funny! Is one of those guys you?
Nathan
http://www.nathanrice.org/
Actually, I’m not in it … if I have anything to do with videos, I try to stay behind it.
As far as church videos go, I think the best kind are funny (and hokey). Otherwise, you’re competing with ESPN, etc. and they ain’t happening usually.