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Media training for churches & Christian creators
The DiDio Media Academy helps churches, Christian podcasters, and media creators reach people with their message. Learn what to make, how to make it, and how to help the right people find it.
Training, checklists, mentors, tech support, and a support group.
Your team knows what to do next.
OUR EXPERIENCETraining built from doing the work.
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DMA trains churches, Christian podcasters, and Christian media creators to plan, produce, and share content that serves people. Start with the foundations, then put each skill to work.
From your first video to leading a team. Choose a subject to explore.
Build your media work around the people you want to serve. Start with the purpose behind your videos, podcast, and online ministry.
Learn the technical side: cameras, sound, lighting, livestreaming, and confidence on camera.
Give the right viewer a reason to click. Learn to make your title and thumbnail work together.
Help people find your content through YouTube search, keywords, and useful descriptions.
Make your videos easier to watch. Learn editing choices for longer videos and vertical clips.
Plan useful content consistently and give viewers a clear next step beyond the video.
Understand what your numbers tell you about your viewers and what to improve next.
Turn an audience into a community through live chat, follow-up, and meaningful next steps.
Build a repeatable publishing routine with the time and people you already have.
Explore ways to fund your work through donations, products, and other revenue sources.
Recruit, organize, and support a media team with clear roles and responsibilities.
Put the pieces in order. Decide what to do first, what comes next, and what can wait.
Lessons, resources, and your next step in one place.
Start with the purpose behind your media work.
36 files to put to work. Choose a folder, then open any file to see what it's for.
The full book on getting found, growing, and reaching the lost on YouTube, written for churches that don't have a studio or a spare ten hours a week. 83 pages, 12 chapters.
Included in the Academy resource library.The step-by-step list we use to launch a new channel.
Included in the Academy resource library.The one-page vision for treating YouTube as your ministry's new front door.
Included in the Academy resource library.A fill-in template that tells an AI assistant who you are, who you serve, and what to make, so its first draft is usable.
Included in the Academy resource library.The exact gear checklist to get a church channel filming, camera to mic.
Included in the Academy resource library.2 cinematic LUTs: Nice Greens + Crunchy. .cube format, delivered in a zip.
Included in the Academy resource library.Your pre-stream signal-chain and go-live checklist before you go live.
Included in the Academy resource library.A quick-reference card for clean, flattering three-point lighting.
Included in the Academy resource library.The editing checks that keep viewers watching to the end.
Included in the Academy resource library.The simplest editing tools to get started without overspending.
Included in the Academy resource library.Stream to one platform first, because splitting your stream splits your audience and your signal.
Included in the Academy resource library.Bring energy from the first second and talk to one person to keep viewers from scrolling away.
Included in the Academy resource library.Establish your guest's authority in the first question and keep podcasts relaxed while staying tied to the topic.
Included in the Academy resource library.Plan a month of content in one sitting.
Included in the Academy resource library.See how shorts, videos, and livestreams feed your ministry funnel.
Included in the Academy resource library.Plan one video to do the work of many across every platform.
Included in the Academy resource library.Evan's six laws for thumbnails that actually earn the click.
Included in the Academy resource library.Plug-and-play title patterns proven to pull views. Steal them.
Included in the Academy resource library.Map the viewer's path from thumbnail to subscribe, step by step.
Included in the Academy resource library.Work through keyword research start to finish for any video.
Included in the Academy resource library.A fill-in template for descriptions, tags, and transcripts that help you rank.
Included in the Academy resource library.Track the handful of metrics that actually tell you how you're doing.
Included in the Academy resource library.Learn to read a retention graph and know exactly what to fix.
Included in the Academy resource library.How to run the live chat so online members feel seen and stay.
Included in the Academy resource library.First-impression and follow-up scripts for your online guests.
Included in the Academy resource library.Even the most anointed message goes unheard if the title and thumbnail fall flat, so packaging is the job.
Included in the Academy resource library.The daily 30-minute routine that keeps your channel moving.
Included in the Academy resource library.Batch a week of content in one sitting with this planner.
Included in the Academy resource library.The twelve roles a media team needs, on one org chart.
Included in the Academy resource library.How we run a Sunday, start to finish, so your team can too.
Included in the Academy resource library.A ready-to-use volunteer agreement for your media team.
Included in the Academy resource library.Build a bench and rotate volunteers without burning anyone out.
Included in the Academy resource library.The priority ladder to decide what to work on first, and next.
Included in the Academy resource library.The revenue streams beyond AdSense, mapped for ministries.
Included in the Academy resource library.A plain-English quick reference for copyright and CCLI on YouTube.
Included in the Academy resource library.Hold a key, talk, and clean text appears wherever your cursor is, in any Windows app.
Included in the Academy resource library.Support for the work you're doing, from content decisions to the setup behind them.
Ask questions, share what you're building, and learn alongside other Christian creators. Bring a video idea, a title you're working on, or a question about your next upload.
Get guidance on your content, your priorities, and what to work on next. Talk through your plan and the decisions that are holding you up.
Bring your camera, sound, and livestream questions and work toward a fix. Describe your setup and what's happening so you can work through the problem.
Sample dashboard. Explore the training, open a resource folder, or see how support works.
Browse real pages from Occupy the Algorithm. Choose a page, then open it to read.
See the path from reaching people on YouTube to building your media team.
The YouTube playbook in one place, from gear and titles to analytics, monetization, and building a media team out of the people already in your pews. Start with chapter 3 if your videos aren't getting clicked, or chapter 12 if you just need to know the next right move.
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Everyone at my work and church conference thinks I'm a genius. I said, well, thanks for sending me to the right training! Thank you to the whole DiDio Media team.
Kyle MillerI just wanted to let you guys know that we hit 1K subs! We couldn't have done it without the MOB (now the Academy). Thank you!
Mary DruryJust want to take a moment to say I appreciate all you guys are doing to equip each one of us in the group.
Julie HedenborgIndividual results vary. What a member achieves depends on their content, their consistency and their audience, and these are not typical results.
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