Says GodTube.com CEO Chris Wyatt. GodTube.com was ranked the #1 fastest growing website in August by comScore on their Top 1000 Web Properties list. Launching not long ago on August 8th GodTube.com showed 973% growth with 1.7 million unique visitors. GodTube.com uses an advanced Content Delivery Network by Limelight Networks.
GodTube.com is an online community delivering user-generated videos on a diverse array of topics, ranging from comedy to powerful personal testimonials, musical performances to sermons. GodTube.com has become one of the leading online destinations as well as one of the largest providers of Christian programming in the world and is also available in Spanish. You can read more about GodTube.com’s mission and statement of faith on their website.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
To each his own. I guess I’ll traipse on over and check it out. Think I’ll find any Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Good luck with finding any Sam Cooke over there, LOL! This is definitely a niche and you will find appropriate content over there for their users. I was surprised the most by their statistics for August, you?
September 18th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I’m interested in seeing how well they police the content. There’s another popular Youtube spin-off called JewTube.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I hear Google is supposed to be suing JewTube for trademark infringement.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:03 am
angela,
glad to see someone could tell that I was kidding about the sam cooke reference. LOL! And, yep, the content was appropriate for their users of which I ain’t one and ain’t never gonna be one either. The August statistics were a bit surprising, but, like you said, it’s their niche and must be catching on as such. I wonder what’s next though I’m afraid to really find out……
September 20th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I am sure what will come next will be social community niches in every possible area we can think of. StreetCred.com is one for the Hip-Hop niche, I just read about it today on Mashable. I think this is a good thing, at least I hope it is! With more social niches out there hopefully this will translate into more Black social niches and communities. One thing I do know is that it is going to be hard to keep up with all of these social networks, I can barely keep up as is, lol!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
angela,
We are “in the game” now so we must naturally create our own social niches. Nobody else is going to speak to me like I can nor understand why I speak the way I do (nor really give a hoot nanny). Oh, by the way, great idea with Black Web 2.0. It is exactly what I am talking about.
P.S.- Still afraid to peek at what’s coming down the road next from the makers of “GodTube”. But…..
“Time will tell.”
- Malcolm X
September 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Thanks Mike!
I agree, Blacks have specific content needs that are not met in mainstream web media. Now that we have an increase of web properties that are trying to target us I think it is especially important that the content and execution of these properties be up-to-par with mainstream web media. As Blacks I don’t think we should expect or receive anything less because of our race.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
” As Blacks I don’t think we should expect or receive anything less because of our race.”
Exactly. I am old enough to remember when our execution was never a question, it was only a matter of “access” or, God forbid, the strange and sad need on the part of some of us for acceptance from others (I got over that issue the day BEFORE I was born thankfully). So, yes, I expect no less from us but that expectation is a subconscious one. That is the way it is and has to be in order to impart “nation building” skills into all that we do (kudos to the late Afrikan griot, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, for the “nation building” moniker!).
Amen Ra