We show our homework.

Oct 29, 2026

Every Academy lesson now has an assignment card under the video, and your finished assignments show on your dashboard.

Evan wanted the assignment to stand out below the lesson, and to count toward your progress when you check it off. Twelve filmed lessons have one so far, and the dashboard shows how many you have done.

Oct 29, 2026

Two new Academy lessons are up: Study Your Competition and Is It Clickbait?

They are lessons 6 and 7 of Titles & Thumbnails. Each has a short quiz written from the lesson itself.

Oct 15, 2026

Two new Academy lessons are up: Evan's Thumbnail Laws and Thumbnail Workflow.

They are lessons 4 and 5 of Titles & Thumbnails. Each comes with five quiz questions written from the lesson itself, so nobody passes on common sense.

Oct 12, 2026

We missed two spots: the homepage and the blog still showed the book inside a book.

The Oct 6 fix covered three pages and skipped these two. Both now use the flat cover, and the homepage card wears the same turned 3D book on amber as the book page, bigger on phones. Our homepage preview now fails if the cover slips again.

Oct 12, 2026

The member dashboard's next-step card said "Told us what you are building" before anyone had told us anything.

It now reads "Tell us what you are building." A to-do written in the past tense reads like it is already done.

Oct 6, 2026

New photos of the book went up, and three pages started showing a book printed on the cover of a book.

The Store card, the book page and the book band each pulled the main photo, which had just become an angled shot of the book itself. They now use the flat cover, and a preview check fails if it happens again.

Sep 28, 2026

Academy quizzes now lock after one try, and the certificate needs every quiz taken, not passed.

Your score stays what you earned, and your grade prints on the certificate. Pass, partial and fail each get their own animation. On Sep 25 all 60 questions were rewritten so none can be answered without the lesson.

Sep 26, 2026

The book now looks like a book: slightly turned, in 3D, on an amber backdrop.

On the old dark background it was hard to tell it was an actual book. It went on the Store card first, then on the book's own page a day later.

Sep 25, 2026

A new homepage went up.

Before it went live, every button was clicked and every link checked against the page it should open. The Sunday problem finder stayed, and the blog section updates itself the moment a new post goes up.

Sep 25, 2026

A four-part blog series started, one post every Friday through Oct 16. All four are live now.

Strategy before the next camera, the media director's real job, what pastors should focus on, and building a team that lasts. They were written and scheduled ahead, so they arrived every week no matter how busy we got.

Sep 23, 2026

Every filmed Academy lesson got a five-question quiz, and the dashboard started tracking your learning.

Hours watched, lessons finished, quiz scores and your strongest tracks show on a Your learning card, and the certificate was redrawn to carry them. Hours count from Sep 23 on, because nothing earlier was recorded.

Sep 23, 2026

An About page went up: who we are, who we help, and where Evan has taught.

Older copies of this site still turn up in search results, and some of them are out of date. This page is the current record, with Evan's appearances and a dozen of his teaching videos in one place.

Sep 23, 2026

The site now tells search engines and AI assistants how Evan, DiDio Media, and the book connect.

We teach churches to get found, so the site should describe itself plainly to the machines doing the finding: one founder, one company, one book, instead of three mentions an AI has to piece together.

Sep 23, 2026

Reviews now show on the book page and every product page.

A buyer's word is worth more than ours. The store shows stars on a product once it has a review.

Sep 22, 2026

Four new worksheets went up on Resources, marked New: One Platform First, On-Camera Presence, Interviews & Podcasts, and Packaging Is the Job.

Each one is built from its own lesson and nothing else. The Templates page also teaches the title method from lesson 2.2 now, before it hands you a single template.

Sep 22, 2026

The member dashboard was checked against Evan's own teaching and fixed wherever it drifted.

Counts now include only lessons you can actually watch, the walkthrough goes to the community right after the dashboard, and the certificate reads Certified Media Director.

Sep 21, 2026

Every AI prompt in the Academy was rebuilt around our method: eight rewritten, four new.

They were basic prompts with none of how we actually work. Each one now carries the method from Evan's lessons and the book, and the prompt page opens with a Start here group.

Sep 21, 2026

Lesson 2.3, The Viewer Journey, landed in the Titles & Thumbnails track.

It comes with the Viewer Journey Checklist, so the lesson ends in something you do.

Sep 21, 2026

Buying the book twice by accident got much harder.

A reader bought it twice in under a minute because the download was not where they looked. Signed-out visitors now see where their copy lives before they see a buy button, and the homepage book band links straight to it.

Sep 18, 2026

The Academy page became clickable end to end, and the price now comes before the questions.

Nearly everything on it opens the full breakdown of what you get and what it costs. The comparison lists every feature with a tick and crosses out the costs the Academy does not have, like software you keep paying for.

Sep 18, 2026

The book got its own spot on the homepage, and the cover opens.

The book is the on-ramp, so it sits right under the Academy now. Hover the cover, or tap it on a phone, and it swings open to whichever of the twelve chapters you pick.

Sep 18, 2026

Book buyers now get a download button right in their order confirmation email.

The confirmation email never had one, so a buyer who closed the page had to go hunting for the file. Everyone who had already bought got the email again, with the button.

Sep 17, 2026

The header stopped squeezing the logo on mid-size screens, and the homepage email box got its width back.

Between tablet and small-laptop widths the header ran out of room and crushed the logo, and the signup box had shrunk to a sliver on every desktop. Evan caught both on his own screen.

Sep 16, 2026

Every free download now unlocks on the page the moment you enter your email.

Some forms said check your inbox and nothing was ever sent, and one asked for your email twice. Evan found it by signing up on his own blog. Now the file appears right there, and the free downloads page hands over every one at once.

Sep 16, 2026

Lesson 2.2, Crafting Click Worthy Titles, landed in the library.

It waited until YouTube would let members play it. A lesson that will not play is worse than no lesson at all.

Sep 15, 2026

Your lesson notes, your place in a video, and your last lesson now follow you to any device.

They used to live in one browser, so switching from phone to laptop meant starting over. A note edited on two devices keeps both versions instead of quietly losing one.

Sep 15, 2026

The certificate was redrawn, and once you earn it, it stays earned.

Filming a new lesson used to un-earn it for anyone who had already finished. It now appears when every filmed lesson is done and keeps the day you earned it, and finishing a video now marks its lesson done.

Sep 14, 2026

Every buyer got a My purchases page: sign in and everything you own is in one place, downloads included.

Shopify's own account page cannot hold a download button, so each file lived only on its product page. Signed-in buyers get a My purchases button in the header too.

Sep 14, 2026

The book page now recognizes Academy members.

Members already had the book in their dashboard, but the book page still asked them to buy it. Now it says you already have it and hands you the download.

Sep 14, 2026

Three blog posts were rebuilt so AI assistants can quote them.

On Bing, Copilot was already building whole answers out of two of our posts, and both answer each question in their first paragraph. The rebuilt posts do the same, and a post edited after launch week shows when it was updated.

Aug 27, 2026

Track 1 gained two lessons: Interviews & Podcasts, and Scripting the Hook.

Each video was matched to its lesson by its YouTube title before it went up. The order the links arrive in is not proof of which lesson is which.

Aug 24, 2026

The Academy page now says what the Academy is before it talks about cost.

It went from the problem straight to what a camera costs, asking you to follow a price argument about something nobody had named yet. The four things churches say in a first meeting now run large, because their words beat ours.

Aug 21, 2026

An outside audit read every public page and listed where the site disagreed with itself. The list got worked the same day.

Two footer links pointed at products that no longer exist, the contact page did not say where each kind of question goes, one member quote was printed two different ways, and this page had been quiet for three weeks. All of it is fixed, and the items that were decisions rather than bugs went to Evan.

Aug 20, 2026

The book page got its trailer.

Evan's short on why a church has to occupy the algorithm now plays in the cover's spot when you pick it. YouTube loads nothing until you tap, so the page stays fast.

Aug 19, 2026

Occupy the Algorithm went on sale for $15, and Store came back to the header.

The book is the on-ramp to everything else we teach. With two products on the shelf, the store earned its header link back.

Aug 19, 2026

The member area was reworked end to end: dashboard, training, plan, numbers, community, and a first-visit walkthrough that tours the real pages.

The dashboard now answers each member from their own answers, and a new member's first visit walks them through every room instead of leaving them in the lobby.

Aug 19, 2026

We caught the fine print up: an accessibility statement, a Your Privacy Choices page, purchase terms beside every buy button, and fonts served from our own domain.

Nobody should hand their IP address to Google just to read a page about church media. A consent you can give also has to be easy to take back, so the footer has a Cookie choices control now.

Aug 18, 2026

Two more lessons landed in the library: Packaging Is the Job, and YouTube Is a Search Engine.

A lesson is live the minute it is filmed and uploaded. The counts on the sales pages are computed from the library, so they updated without anyone typing a new number.

Aug 14, 2026

Members got Your Plan (22 questions in, a plan out) and Your Numbers (four metrics on one graph).

Training that never gets applied is the failure we exist to fix. The plan names the next thing to do, and the graph shows whether it worked.

Aug 13, 2026

All 27 worksheets were rebuilt as fillable PDFs, and member progress now saves to your account instead of your browser.

A worksheet you can type into gets used. Progress saved in one browser did not follow you to the next device, and now it does.

Aug 9, 2026

The launch drip promised nine posts and shipped eight.

The Sunday post was pulled and has not gone back up. This page promised the misses, so here is one.

Aug 4, 2026

The site opened.

The under-construction gate came down and the Academy went on sale at its new address. Everything logged above happened on a live site.

Aug 1, 2026

The members' certificate now actually waits for all 74 trainings.

It jumped the gun for a day and offered the download at zero trainings complete. A one-line CSS bug. Caught, fixed, logged here, because that is the deal on this page.

Aug 1, 2026

The homepage got a pulse.

The site now knows what day of your media week it is, and returning visitors pick up where their last diagnosis left off.

Jul 31, 2026

The Tools page turned into a small galaxy.

Free tools should not look like an afterthought. Go hover things.

Jul 31, 2026

The 404 page is now Snow-Man's land.

We are not sorry. Type a wrong URL and meet him.

Jul 31, 2026

The blog started a launch drip: one post every morning through Aug 11.

Nine posts, one per day at 9 AM Eastern, so a new team can build the habit with us instead of binge-reading once and forgetting.

Jul 30, 2026

Three free diagnostic tools went live: the Bottleneck Finder, the Retention Diagnoser, and the Copyright Risk Checker.

The diagnosis should never be the paywall. Bring your real numbers and get a real verdict.

Jul 30, 2026

Every blog post got an animated chart.

We teach show-don't-tell, so the blog should probably live it.

Jul 30, 2026

Blog covers were rebuilt so titles survive every crop Google throws at them.

A thumbnail that loses half its words in search results is a packaging problem, and packaging is literally our lane.