Can you believe GodTube.com?
By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 21, 2007

Can you believe GodTube.com?

First, the upstart Christian video site became the nation's fastest-growing Web property for August, according to ComScore's Media Metrix. Its 1.7 million unique visitors represented a 973% increase in traffic over the previous month. In September, the number of visitors leveled off, but the length of the average user's stay nearly doubled to a healthy 7.7 minutes, ComScore said.

Then last week, GodTube became the first religious website to offer the hot-ticket social media trinity: user-generated video (à la YouTube), social networking (à la MySpace and Facebook) and live webcasting (à la Stickam.com). GodTube's claim that it has become the most trafficked Christian website on the Internet is trumped only by a second boast: that by the sheer volume of video watched by its users -- 1.5 million hours last month -- it is now the world's largest broadcaster of Christian video.Similar efforts from Judaism and Islam have launched recently, and more are cropping up all the time. But GodTube seems to have friends in especially high places. the rest