December 5, 2007
GodTube offers wildly popular alternative to YouTube
GodTube.com, which was rated the fastest-growing online site when it launched in August, aims to "help the church get people back into the pews". USA Today reports.
"GodTube grew nearly 1,000% in its first month, and had 1.6 million unique visitors every month. There are currently more than 38,000 videos on GodTube.
Chris Wyatt came up with the idea for GodTube after reading a survey about falling church attendance. And while churches can upload video-sermons to the website, Wyatt insists that Christians still need to attend an actual church.
"GodTube is by no means a substitute or alternative for church," he said. "We're here to help the church."
Christians aren't the only ones using the Internet to share their faith. For Jews, there's JewTube.com, and for Muslims, IslamicTube.net.
Though the two sites are considerably smaller — JewTube gets about 175,000 visitors per month and IslamicTube 23,000 — the two sites are similar to GodTube in their mission to promote their individual faiths and surrounding cultures."
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