Free channel audit
Audit your church's YouTube channel
Paste your channel link. In about a minute you'll get a 0–100 Sermon Reach Audit across the five things that decide whether people ever find your sermons.
Works with any public channel link, @handle, or even a single video URL.
The church YouTube audit checklist
Your score reflects your most recent uploads. Each category grades a signal YouTube's recommendation system rewards.
Upload Consistency
How predictably you publish. Churches that post on a steady rhythm build returning viewers and signal reliability to the algorithm. Long gaps between sermons quietly weaken that signal.
Titles & SEO
Whether your titles match what people actually search for. "Part 3 — Pastor Mike" reaches nobody new. Questions, how-tos and searchable topics like anxiety, marriage and prayer put sermons in front of strangers.
Thumbnails
Whether someone scrolling past would stop. Custom images, readable text and real faces earn the click. Auto-generated stills from the livestream almost never do.
Discoverability
Descriptions, tags, chapters and metadata. This is how YouTube understands what your video is about — and who to recommend it to. Empty descriptions make great sermons invisible.
Shorts & Reach
Whether your channel reaches beyond your own congregation. Shorts are the single fastest way for a church to get discovered by people who have never heard of you.
Scored out of 100, in about a minute
No sign-up, no cost. Paste your channel link above and see exactly where you stand.
After your audit
Turn your audit into a growth plan
Your scores show you what's holding the channel back. On a free strategy call, we show you exactly how we'd fix it — and what fully managed YouTube looks like for a church your size.
Turn my audit into a plan- A step-by-step fix list for every weak signal in your audit
- SEO-rich title rewrites for the sermons you've already preached
- Thumbnail direction that actually earns the click
- A weekly Shorts plan cut from your existing sermons
Questions pastors ask us
How is my church's audit score calculated?+
We analyze your most recent uploads across five growth signals: upload consistency, titles & SEO, thumbnails, discoverability, and Shorts & reach. Each category is scored from 0–100 and combined into one Sermon Reach score. Titles carry the most weight, because they decide whether anyone ever finds your sermons.
Can I audit a channel that isn't ours?+
Yes. You can audit any public YouTube channel — your own church, another ministry, or a channel you're benchmarking against. Paste any channel link, @handle, or even a single video URL.
How often should we audit our channel?+
Once a month is a good rhythm. After you start fixing titles, thumbnails and upload consistency, give it 30–60 days before re-checking so the changes have time to move your scores.
What if our church barely uploads or only livestreams?+
That's the most common situation we see — and the audit will say so honestly. A channel of untouched livestreams usually scores low on titles, thumbnails and Shorts, which is exactly the gap a managed service closes.
What's the difference between this free audit and Co-op Studio?+
The audit tells you what's wrong. Co-op Studio fixes it every week — editing, thumbnails, SEO-rich titles, descriptions, Shorts and publishing — so your pastor preaches and we handle everything else.