Live Streaming is Difficult

We Need Your Help!

Because of some streaming challenges we are facing, it would be very helpful if you could take a few moments to complete the survey below. Please answer a few questions and help us as we make some important decisions for the future of Immanuel’s live stream services.

If you want to know why, go ahead and read the rest of today’s blog … (otherwise, jump straight into the survey below).

Background: In order to do things legally, we upgraded our copyright license to allow us to stream worship music during our worship services. For a while it appeared to be working well, but then YouTube started telling us that we had copyright material in our live streams and eventually (Sept 27) they blocked our live service. After further investigation, YouTube protects the rights of copyright holders by monetizing videos and giving the money to the artist. This means, YouTube will start adding advertisements to our worship services. Apparently, it does not matter if we are already paying a copyright service to compensate the artists. This survey asks how you feel about ads, and whether you are open to changes to our live stream.

Thank you for participating!!