Popular Free Streaming Platforms
Facebook Live
Many churches stream on Facebook because it’s free, convenient, and set up to help you connect with your congregation where they already are spending time. The comments foster community and notifications can alert people when you go live.
Benefits
- Free
- Easy to Use
- Accessible to Most People
- Built-in Notifications
- Comments for community
Downsides
- Difficult to get support
- Don’t own your content
- Takedowns and Muted Audio
- Unreliable/outages
- Ads on your stream
- Can shut down account
- Not built for discipleship – built to keep people on Facebook
- Livestreams Auto-Delete after 30 days
YouTube
YouTube is known for high-quality video and a massive global audience. It’s a great platform for long-form content, sermon archives, and reaching new people searching for answers. It’s free and easy to embed, so many churches choose this platform.
Benefits
- Free
- Easy to Use
- Accessible to Most People
- Great for long-form content
- Well-organized archive
Downsides
- Difficult to get support
- Takedowns and Muted Audio
- Don’t own your content
- Unreliable/outages
- Ads on your stream
- Hard to stand out
- Difficult Live chat moderation
Embed your Facebook or Youtube Stream on your church website
Facebook/Youtube Live Stream on your Church Website
Your ministry based live stream without all the distractions and garbage
✅ Permanent Embed Code
✅ Bible, Prayer, Chat, Church Based Analytics
✅ Streaming Support 7 days a week
✅ Custom Designs to Match Your Church Website
✅ Free to try – only $19 / month afterwards
✅ Safety and Security
*no credit card required
Already streaming on Facebook or Youtube? Tired of sending your viewers to get lost in the chaos on the social sites? Do you wish there was a clean, custom, church based option for your viewers? Tired of changing embed codes every week?
We embedded the streaming platform on our church website, creating a church-centric live stream without all the distractions of social media and now we have all the church based tools (prayer, web host, sermon notes, etc.) alongside our live stream on our church website. We also customized the streaming platform to suit our needs and we now get real automated weekly church based attendance stats.
*no credit card required
How it Works:
In 3 easy steps you'll be live streaming on your church website
Enter Facebook or Youtube Channel Name
First you choose whether you prefer to use your Facebook Live stream or your Youtube live stream. Then enter either your Facebook Live stream page or your Youtube Channel Name.
Copy the Embed Code
Access your embed code and copy and paste it onto your church website wherever you want your live stream to appear. Your live stream will appear here whenever you go live on Facebook or Youtube!
Go Live!
Schedule your service on your StreamingChurch.tv admin panel and then go live on your Facebook or Youtube stream. Your live stream with all of your ministry tools will appear on your church website or wherever you choose to display your live stream. No more distractions for your viewers! Just your live stream and your online ministry tools you prefer.
Tons of Ministry Based Tools Included!
Here’s a partial list of features included at no additional cost:
- Automated Follow Up – automatically email first timers after they leave your service. When they return in the coming weeks, send them a personalized custom “second-timer” email. Send an email to those that don’t return a “we missed you message”.
- Pray privately with online guests.
- Include the bible, your sermon notes alongside your live stream.
- Get automated attendance and participation stats emailed to your team’s inbox every Monday
- One Time Embed – We provide your live stream embed code for your church website. It will never change!
- AI tools that will analyze your stream and participation and suggest recommendations for improvement.
- Cover Image or Video when not streaming live.
- Customize to match your ministry!
- Unlimited Streaming!
And So Much More!!!
