What Worked / What to Watch
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The whole run finished by machine. Every step from download through verify completed without a hand step, and Checkpoint 2 closed on its own once all 103 delivery cards were approved or skipped.
The website more than doubled. 1,855 users against 832 the week before, with blog readers up from 194 to 488 and Spanish blog readers from 53 to 138.
Instagram engagement jumped. 1,092 likes (448 the week before) and 77 comments (16) on nine posts; followers reached 1,251, up 36.
Rejections were fixed the same night. Jeff sent back the 1080×1920 thumbnail ("James is too big") and the Sunday quote card ("too long"). Both were re-made, re-uploaded and approved, and the Big Idea card template is now capped at 14 words so it can't run long again.
Cost held at $48.35, in line with the last four weeks ($43–$48).
app_ready ran 78 minutes. It is past its cap for the third week running. It finished on its own this time, but it is still the slowest step in the back half.
The podcast step took 35 minutes, far longer than usual. All four feeds verified, but the time needs a look.
Kids hits the wall it was heading for. Balaam (Oct 22 → 28) is live. Nothing exists for Nov 1: no script, no art, no Chaplain episode. Families open the new week Thursday Oct 29.
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 25 = hatched: still accruing, fewer days than the bars beside it.
🌐 Website
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▶︎ Homepage Sermon Player
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"Safe in the Ark - Genesis 7" 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 — Safe in the Ark part 1 (James Drake · Genesis 7), Week 7 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 📝 Sermon blog: James's Safe in the Ark: Who Really Shut the Door publishes Monday Oct 26
- 📝 Felt-need blog: Jeff's When You're Afraid Your Faith Isn't Strong Enough publishes Wednesday Oct 28
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- 🎬 4 Shorts → IG Stories Mon–Thu Oct 26–29, 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 59, EN video 59, ES audio 52, ES video 52)
- 🏠 Homepage hero plays this week's condensed cut (Genesis 7)
- 🎬 Chaplain America — wk43 Balaam posted (Fri Oct 23, Sun Oct 25). No episode yet for the week of Nov 1
Open Items
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- Kids, Thursday Oct 29 — the week of Nov 1 has no script and no art. DIG IN's Quarter Two isn't held yet; Jeff is getting it from Heidi's DIG IN account. Until it lands, the app keeps serving Balaam.
- Chaplain America — no episode exists yet for the week of Nov 1.
- YouTube Shorts — four IG Stories are approved. The YouTube upload runs Monday at 3:30am on its own.
- Spanish video — the "Altered or synthetic content" box in YouTube Studio is still a hand click each week.
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.