What Worked / What to Watch
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The front of the run was clean again. Download, transcript, cutouts, sermon record, devotionals, thumbnails, blogs, recap, Bible study, Shorts and the condensed cut all finished by machine on the first try. Everything from Checkpoint 0 through upload was through by mid-afternoon.
Chaplain on time. wk42 (Caleb) posted Friday and Sunday; wk43 (Balaam) is rendered and scheduled for Oct 23 and Oct 25.
Homepage hero engagement was solid. 90 of 126 returning visitors played the condensed cut (71%), 31 kept it playing while browsing (34%), and 5 tapped play on a phone. One turned sound on — the unmute number that matters most is still low, but the play-through rate held from last week.
Cost held near median at $47.75. The prior two weeks before last week were $72–$76. Three of the last four weeks have been $43–$48.
cutouts_present ran 12.6× over budget. It took two attempts and 39.6 minutes (vs a 4.6-min median), burning 16.6M tokens and $8.61. That step reliably runs long when it hits an edge case on the cutout; the same pattern has shown up in past weeks. Needs a root cause look.
app_ready hit the 60-minute cap again. The script ran but the narration stalled at 30 of 34 MP3s (the Columbus Day ES files were slow). Jeff resumed it by hand. It finished clean, but the cap has been hit two weeks running.
Kids caught up, then hits a wall. Balaam (Oct 22 week) was finished Sunday — art, screens and Chaplain — and is live. The Oct 29 week has no file: Quarter One of the curriculum ends at Balaam, and Quarter Two hasn't arrived.
CHECKPOINT_2 was still pending when the retro ran. The run was not marked finished.
Sermon Reach · All Channels
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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 18 = hatched: still accruing, fewer days than the bars beside it.
🌐 Website
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▶︎ Homepage Sermon Player
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"Faith in a Corrupt World - Genesis 6" 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.
📱 App
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Platforms
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Rolling Out
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- 📖 Published — Faith in a Corrupt World (James Drake · Genesis 6), Week 6 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 📝 Sermon blog: James's Faith in a Corrupt World: Genesis 6 and the Grace of Noah publishes Monday Oct 19
- 📝 Felt-need blog: Jeff's When You're Doing Everything Right and It's Not Working publishes Wednesday Oct 21
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- 🎬 4 Shorts → IG Stories Mon–Thu Oct 19–22, 4:30 PM ET; YouTube uploads Monday 3:30am
- 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN and ES
- 🎧 Episode live in all four podcast feeds (EN audio 58, EN video 58, ES audio 51, ES video 51)
- 🏠 Homepage hero plays this week's condensed cut (Genesis 6)
- 🎬 Chaplain America — wk42 Caleb posted (Fri Oct 16, Sun Oct 18); wk43 Balaam scheduled (YouTube Fri Oct 23 noon + Sun Oct 25 12:15pm, Instagram Stories 2pm both days)
Open Items
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- Kids, Thursday Oct 29 — Balaam (Oct 22 → 28) is live: script, 30 illustrations, screens and both Chaplain episodes. The week of Nov 1 has no file: DIG IN's Quarter Two (lesson 14+) isn't held yet. Jeff is getting it from Heidi's DIG IN account.
- YouTube Shorts — four IG Stories are approved. The YouTube upload runs Monday at 3:30am on its own.
- Spanish video — "Altered or synthetic content" box in YouTube Studio is still a hand click each week.
- Instagram reach and views — followers, posts, likes and comments now pull automatically. Views, reach and link taps need the insights permission on the Instagram app.
- Planning Center — re-pulled Oct 18 evening: 23 new people (15 the week before), 7 event registrations (4).
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.