United Church of God has spent 23 years hauling its train down the line and it still hasn't reached any destination. Twenty-three years as the "new and improved" Church of God and it still has nothing to show but new buildings and some questionable statistics. Membership has flatlined ever since they imploded and COGWA split off. But never fear, they want UCG members to feel mighty impressed that they garner huge increases in viewership and that UCG is in the top 14 Christian websites in the world. (Dave Pack has to be mighty butthurt at that revelation since he claims his website is the most astounding thing to happen to the world since the immaculate conception.) UCG has spent millions of dollars on those viewers while it has been incapable of drawing them in as members with open wallets.
Peter Eddington went through some of the following statistics as of Nov. 30 this year:
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United News circulation is the highest it’s ever been since United began at 16,788.
Our coworker count is now at 6,338—6% higher than two years ago and 1.5% less than the same time last year.
Our donor list includes 7,300 people. Our all-time high was 9,564 in June 2016.
U.S. Beyond Today magazine subscribers are at 258,411. This is just under our September total of 261,408, which was the highest since March 2012. Our U.S. circulation has been right around 250,000 each issue for the past two years.
Those people on our U.S. file associated with the Church (teens, members, associated attendees) is at 12,418.
The Church’s Beyond Today YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/BeyondTodayTV) has had 9.5 million video views since November 2006, a 50% increase since last December. The channel has 41,243 subscribers (a 188% increase since last December), and hosts 1,868 videos, which is a 13% increase since last December. This is an average of 2,170 videos being watched every day, an increase of 36% since last December.
The average YouTube views for the past 12 months is 8,846 videos watched per day, an increase of 137% since last December.
The number of Google, Yahoo and Bing advertising impressions since 2004 stands at 12.1 billion.
UCG.org is currently ranked the 14th-highest Christian denomination website in the world. In the past we have been as high as 12th.
