Archive Rescue
Every message your church has ever put on YouTube, given a real title, a real description, and a page on your own website that a search engine can read.
Before you read another word, paste your channel. It takes four seconds and it tells you whether any of this applies to you.
Your sermon may well be on YouTube. That does not mean somebody on your website, or somebody with a specific question, can tell what is in it.
Ten years of teaching, filed under the date it happened. Paste your channel above and you will see your own, not ours.
Four steps. You are only involved in the first and the last.
We count every message on your channel, check how many still have audio we can work from, and write five of the titles for real so you can see them. You get a fixed price before anybody commits to anything.
Every message transcribed end to end. A fifty seven minute sermon becomes about seven thousand words of searchable text in roughly ninety seconds.
A real title. A description with the passage and the theme. Every scripture reference pulled out and listed. All of it from what was actually preached, never invented.
Written straight onto your YouTube channel, or handed to you as a spreadsheet you paste in yourself. Plus a recap page on your website for every message, not just the new ones.
Two numbers. An audit up front, credited in full, and then a price per sermon that depends on one thing: whether we can reach the audio.
We count what is actually there, check how much of it still has usable audio, write five of the titles for real so you can see them, and give you a fixed price. Credited in full if you go ahead.
$7 when your audio is somewhere we can reach it, like a podcast feed or a folder. $11 when it has to come out of the video files themselves. The audit tells you which you are. Minimum job is 50 sermons or $750, whichever is larger.
| Archive size | Audio we can reach | Audio inside the videos |
|---|---|---|
| 60 sermons about 10 hours by hand |
$750 | $750 |
| 128 sermons about 21 hours by hand |
$896 | $1,408 |
| 240 sermons about 40 hours by hand |
$1,680 | $2,640 |
Worked example. A church with 128 messages and a podcast feed pays $250 for the audit, then $646 on delivery. $896 all in, once, and the archive is done. Doing the same thing by hand is about 21 hours of somebody watching videos and typing.
Finish an Archive Rescue and your next twelve months of Recap Sunday are included. No card, no contract, no setup fee.
That means we go back and repair the library you already have, and then every message you preach from this Sunday on gets a real title, a recap, a scripture index and its own page, automatically, for a year.
Ordinarily $79 a month. Twelve months is deliberate: churches budget by the year, so the first invoice lands where it can be planned for rather than in the middle of a budget you already set.
Some of your archive may not be recoverable, and you should know that before you pay for it, not after.
Audio goes missing. A livestream from 2019 might have no separate recording anywhere. A drive gets wiped when somebody leaves. On the last church archive we worked through, more than a third of it had no usable audio for a seven month stretch, and that was a church with both a podcast feed and a folder of files.
That is exactly what the audit is for. You find out what is actually there before you commit, you keep the five sample titles either way, and if the answer is that only half your archive can be saved, we tell you and you decide whether half is worth it.
You give us permission on your channel and the corrected titles and descriptions go on automatically. Nothing for anyone to copy or paste.
Every video, its current title, and the new one. You paste them in yourself. Slower, but you never have to give anybody access to your account. Plenty of churches pick this and that is fine.
Either way you also get the recap pages on your own website, which is where the search traffic actually lands.
Then this page is not about you. If you publish to SermonAudio, a podcast host or a denominational portal, your titles are good and the problem is where they live. That version is here.
$250, credited in full against the work. You will know exactly how many messages you have, how many can be saved, and what it costs, before you decide anything.