Rolling Out
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- 📖 Published — Two Ways to Live (Kent Keller · Genesis 4), Week 4 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 📝 Two blogs: Jeff Reed's Why Am I So Angry at Someone Who Didn't Do Anything to Me? scheduled Mon Oct 5; Kent Keller's Two Ways to Live Thu Oct 8, once Kent approves it
- 🎬 4 Shorts → YouTube + IG Stories, Mon–Thu Oct 5–8, 4:30 PM ET (full week)
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- 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN and ES
- 🌐 Social graphics daily; sermon pull-quote 3 PM; Spanish card 7 PM
- 🎧 Episode live in all four podcast feeds (EN audio 56, EN video 56, ES audio 49, ES video 49)
- 🏠 Homepage hero plays this week's condensed cut
Blogs This Week
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Last Week's Pulse
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"Two Ways to Live - Genesis 4" is in the homepage hero now; the numbers below are last week's. First-party counters, not GA4 — aggregate only, nothing traceable to a person.
Watch depth: 7 → 4 → 4 → 4 reached 25/50/75/100%, so 5.6% of plays ran to the end. Captions on 0 times; listened without the picture 0.
Each bar is one Sunday’s total across every channel — the number above the bar — with the segments showing which channel contributed. YouTube = views; homepage hero = plays of the condensed cut; podcast = deduped downloads. These are lifetime totals, so older sermons have had longer to accumulate. Read the mix and the recent trend, not a strict week-to-week ranking — the newest bar is hatched because it has had days rather than weeks.
† Sep 27 = hatched: still accruing, fewer days than the bars beside it.
Where the numbers live
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The numbers that used to sit here now update every day:
- Website, YouTube, Google listing, Instagram, app usage → Impact
- Search performance, queries, rankings → Search
- AI assistants — who is asking, who is crawling, who cites us → AI visibility
This page is the week in one glance: what shipped, what worked, and the note from Jeff.
What Worked / What to Watch
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The first half of the run was clean. transcript, cutout_options, cutouts_present, sermon_record, devotionals, thumbnails, blogs, recap, bible_study, spanish, shorts, condensed — all done by machine on a single attempt. The content pipeline from Resi export to deployed sermon is solid.
All four podcast feeds are live and verified. The podcast step ran end-to-end including the npm build, pushed, and confirmed 2026-10-04 in every feed at the right count (56/56/49/49). This is the step that needed a hand two weeks ago — it did not this week.
The homepage hero stats from last week are healthy. 72 of 93 returning visitors played the Sep 27 condensed cut (77.4%), and 28 kept it playing while browsing. Unmutes: 3 — up from 0 last week. Sound-on means they chose to hear the sermon.
35 Stories approved and social is scheduled. schedule_social shipped a full week including 3 of 4 Saturday preview cards (worship-set card pending PCO data).
YouTube's daily limit ran out mid-run. The video step got an "invalid tags" error, then used the rest of the day's limit, and briefly left "Test Title" on the public English sermon. The cause: YouTube counts quotes around multi-word tags, so 30 tags came to 536 characters, not 459. Jeff restored the title in Studio and published the Spanish video by hand. Tags are now trimmed to YouTube's own count, and the run may no longer test against a live video. Fixed for next week.
app_ready: 81 minutes, four attempts — third week in a row with escalation. Its Spanish half waits on the Spanish video, so one late video held up the whole tail. The fix is to make that half follow on its own once the video is live, the way the Spanish website page already does. It's in this week's speed-up work.
Run cost $67.27 — down from the two $75+ weeks, still 1.6× median ($42.74). app_ready is still the biggest single line item.
Fixed tonight, live now: a rejected social graphic is replaced automatically and put back on the board for a tick; the board no longer scrolls sideways on a phone; on a phone the message box is pinned at the top; and the board answers notes and questions.
Open Items
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- Kids, Thursday Oct 8 — Aaron and the Golden Calf is still a draft with no illustrations, and Oct 15's Caleb is the same. Haggai (art) needs to start Monday; Shaphan publishes by Tuesday. This week's Ten Commandments lesson stays live through Wednesday.
- Kent's blog — Two Ways to Live (EN + ES) publishes Thursday once Kent approves it.
- Overnight, no one needed — YouTube's daily limit resets at 3am ET; the Shorts playlist and the final check finish on their own. Wednesday's 3pm Story is approved automatically once Jeff's blog goes live Monday at 5am.
- YouTube weekly views and channel totals (Sep 27–Oct 3) — the YouTube limit was used up tonight; Monday's job fills them in before Tuesday's send.
- Instagram insights — still read by hand; pending.