Rolling Out
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- 📖 Published — Leaving a Legacy (James Drake · Genesis 5), Week 5 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 🇺🇸 Columbus Day — Kent Keller's Christopher Columbus: Great Man or Monster? publishes Monday morning with three Stories (8am, noon, 7pm)
- 📝 Sermon blogs: James's Leaving a Legacy Tuesday; Jeff's Doing a Lot for God but Don't Feel Close to Him? Thursday
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- 🎬 4 Shorts → YouTube + IG Stories, Mon–Thu Oct 12–15, 4:30 PM ET
- 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN and ES
- 🎧 Episode live in all four podcast feeds (EN audio 57, EN video 57, ES audio 50, ES video 50)
- 🏠 Homepage hero plays this week's condensed cut
Blogs This Week
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Last Week's Pulse
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"Leaving a Legacy - Genesis 5" 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 → 5 → 2 → 2 reached 25/50/75/100%, so 3.2% of plays ran to the end. Captions on 0 times; listened without the picture 2.
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.
† Oct 11 = 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 front of the run was clean again. Download, transcript, trims, cutouts, sermon record, devotionals, thumbnails, blogs, recap, Bible study, Shorts and the condensed cut all finished by machine on the first try. Everything up to Checkpoint 2 was ready by 3:40pm.
The week verified clean: 94 checks, 0 failed. The one accepted gap is Monday's social, which Jeff reworked on purpose to lead with Columbus.
Cost dropped to $43.56, from $67.27 last week and $75+ the two weeks before. That's about the median. app_ready is now a script, and it no longer has to wait on the Spanish video.
The homepage cut did its job. 63 of 94 returning visitors (67%) played last week's condensed sermon, and 22 kept it playing while they browsed.
Shorts are now the channel's growth engine. Kent's "Grace greater than your sin" passed 500 views in two days. Starting this week, Shorts are chosen and titled to speak to the viewer, and doctrinal sermon titles get a felt-need hook in front on YouTube.
The Spanish dub sat in the inbox for two hours. All four HeyGen parts were back by 3:12pm, but the run never noticed them arriving, and the dub was joined by hand at 5:24pm. Most likely the background run can't see the Google Drive folder. Fix scheduled this week.
Three steps finished but missed a piece, and the board went green anyway. - Publishing didn't add the complete service and the condensed cut to their playlists. - The app's sermon record had no poster, thumbnail or group questions. - The Kids check and the Chaplain step both marked themselves done with gaps in their own output. All of these were caught and fixed tonight. The permanent fixes this week: playlist adds become part of the publish script, the Kids card gets four real checks (script, images, Chaplain, screens), and a step can't show green with a ✗ inside.
Two declined graphics would have posted. They'd been approved automatically before Jeff declined them. They were pulled back and replaced by hand. This week a decline will work at any stage, and Jeff will approve each graphic once, on its scheduled post, instead of twice.
app_ready hit its 60-minute limit once. The script ran inside an AI session that just sat waiting on it. Next week it runs on its own, with no session.
Open Items
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- Chaplain America, week 42 — the Friday Oct 16 (noon) and Sunday Oct 18 episodes aren't rendered yet. The scripts and plates are ready and waiting on Jeff's go. They need to be done by Wednesday evening for Friday's slot.
- Kids, Thursday Oct 22 — Balaam's Donkey is still a draft with no art. Jeff is taking it this week: art by Sunday Oct 18, live by Tuesday Oct 20.
- YouTube Shorts — this week's four upload to YouTube at 3:30am Monday on their own. The IG Stories are already approved.
- Spanish video — the "Altered or synthetic content" box in YouTube Studio is still a hand click each week.
- Instagram insights — still read by hand; pending.