When you search for “Mormon” on YouTube, the #1 video is now positive–a video clip from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk “My Words . . . Never Cease,” a testimony of continuing revelation, taken from his talk at April 2008 General Conference.
This video on YouTube has been viewed nearly 20,000 times and will continue to gain over 1,000 views per day if it continues at #1. As the first thing that people find when searching for the Church on YouTube, this is a great missionary opportunity. Note the following comment that was posted about the video clip:
“I must say, what Holland is saying here makes incredible sense and something about this video really strikes a cord with me in a way that nothing else ever has. I’ve been to many churches and have heard many sermons, and if they all use the Bible I can’t see how they all come out so different. If this Book of Mormon is indeed an addition to his word, then God sure knows what he’s doing to correct where we’ve been going wrong with Christianity.”
Having positive videos at the top of the search results for “Mormon” is a nice change, since in the past many of the top search results were videos critical of the Church.
This video is also at videos.lds.org, along with a clip from Elder Holland’s related talk “The Only True God and Jesus Christ whom He Hath Sent” from the previous conference.
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That’s a relief!! Thanks for sharing.
This is the best news I’ve heard all day. I look up Mormon stuff all the time on youtube and I’m glad we get some representation on the top.
Was there something we specifically did (e.g. video tagging) to make that video come up as #1, or was it just the result of people clicking on that video often? If these types of videos are something we can help promote and bolster in the YouTube rankings, then we should do it. Thanks!
It’s a combination of everything, more than just how the video was tagged. It was the number of video responses, the number of comments left, and ultimately the number of views, which is largely attributed to the emails being forwarded. There was also a good response from posts on blogs and other websites. A good way to help is by embedding the video on your blog and encouraging others to go to the video and comment and answer questions.
While I am really happy that this talk has reached number one, I wish it was the version without the music in the background. I find it soooooo distracting!!!
We are spreading the gospel by having our kids do animations about the scriptures. Here is our first Ward film festival. It is about the old testament.
We hope to move up the ranks in youtube as well:
http://oldtestamentmovies.wordpress.com/
Nice blog, please check mine out when you get a moment. realmormonism.blogspot.com
joeshays, I’m very impressed by your Old Testament animations. I’ve just blogged about them at http://www.ldsmediatalk.com/2008/07/24/animations-from-the-old-testament-by-kids-for-kids so that others can enjoy them. Nice work.