We’ve stepped out in faith, knowing that God will take care of us, and it’s paid off big time. The common question we get is, “Why would anyone buy your videos if they can just watch them for free and it’s so easy to illegally download them from YouTube?” And our answer is, “Most won’t.” We make our living from the less than 0.2% of our viewers who choose to support Douglas Talks through financial gifts or by purchasing digital downloads of our videos. 9:14), we feel that God has called us to make all of our videos free to watch on YouTube. But, though we certainly don’t condemn the content creators who do these things so that they can make a living from their videos (1 Tim. Their standard practice is to only put samples of their videos on YouTube (like partial videos, or only a few videos from their catalog), so that people will be more likely to purchase their videos instead of illegally downloading them off of YouTube using third-party software. Many content creators make their living by selling digital downloads of their videos.But we’ve disabled almost all ads on the Douglas Talks YouTube channel to make it as safe as possible for our viewers. “YouTubers” make their living from the revenue generated by the ads that play before, during, and/or after their videos.Our videos have always been free to watch on the Douglas Talks YouTube Channel, and we’ve also always offered our videos for sale as digital downloads. The ministry of Douglas Talks is sort of an oddity. Spoilers: We’re going to start making our videos free to download. There are more than 200 episodes of Douglas Talks, and we release a new episode every Monday. Douglas is a curious green puppet who loves to help parents and teachers explain Biblical truths to their kids in a way that’s fun and easy to understand.
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