{"id":11533,"date":"2010-11-16T18:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2010-11-16T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:52:36","slug":"the-youversion-bible-2-years-10-million-downloads-0-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/11\/16\/the-youversion-bible-2-years-10-million-downloads-0-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"The YouVersion Bible: 2 years, 10 million downloads, 0 advertising."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/socialmedia\/2010\/11\/16\/the-youversion-bible-2-years-10-million-downloads-0-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The YouVersion Bible: 2 years, 10 million downloads, 0 advertising. <\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thenextweb.com by Brad McCarty<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11535\" title=\"YouVersion\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/YouVersion.jpg\" alt=\"YouVersion -- take the Bible with you wherever you go\" width=\"443\" height=\"512\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/YouVersion.jpg 443w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/YouVersion-129x150.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It isn\u2019t often that we\u2019ll talk about religion, politics or things that can otherwise start arguments that don\u2019t count as fanboyism. However, when a service gains 10 million downloads without ever advertising, that\u2019s a pretty strong social media story in our book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">YouVersion is a simple thing \u2013 a bible. It can be downloaded to a number of different platforms, it\u2019s available in a myriad of translations and has a community that surrounds the application and the website. Presently, the app gets downloaded at the rate of over 1 million new users every month and has kept itself in the top 5 download apps for the Reference category of the App Store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So how does YouVersion manage things? The power of people, it seems. The company credits its success greatly to the social sharing of the YouVersion community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YouVersion Bible: 2 years, 10 million downloads, 0 advertising. &#8212; from thenextweb.com by Brad McCarty It isn\u2019t often that we\u2019ll talk about religion, politics or things that can otherwise start arguments that don\u2019t count as fanboyism. However, when a service gains 10 million downloads without ever advertising, that\u2019s a pretty strong social media story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,377,166],"tags":[772,750,184],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-religion","category-social-learning-networks","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-religion","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}