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Smartwatches + The Church App

Apple Watch and Android Wear Support

The Apple watch is finally here–adding another sleek competitor to the smartwatch world. With the arrival of the Apple and Android watches, we’re very excited to announce that both watches support your Subsplash app! That's right, they work right out of the box!

How does your app talk with your watch?

We're glad you asked. Smart watches have a number of compatible features that connect with your app instantly. Control the audio from your app directly from your Apple or Android watch. Push Notifications also appear on both Apple and Android watches, giving you another platform to reach your audience with direct messages. Android watches also have the ability to display your artwork along with the audio! 

Why Smart Watches?

Smart watches eliminate the step of having to pull out your phone to perform certain functions. Rather than hearing your phone vibrate, checking your text, and then responding, your smart watch frees up your hands and gives your voice the power. Respond to texts, get directions, make calls, and open apps with just your voice! Yes, you may feel like an FBI agent for awhile. We are so excited about this new technology, and can't wait to hear how you use them!

Stories from the Church: Web Player

The Subsplash Web Player is the perfect compliment to your app to reach your audience in new ways! Whether your content is consumed on a mobile device or a desktop, we’ve got you covered. The content uploaded to your app is encoded and maximized for playback across every medium. This means there is no dual entry–upload in one place and your media is instantly delivered to your app, web player, and podcast feed. We’ve seen great adoption rates of the Web Player so far, but want to encourage everyone to check it out and see how it fits the need of your organization. Simply check out the ‘Web Player’ settings page in the Subsplash Dashboard to turn on this channel–it’s as easy as that, and it comes fully loaded with your content.

I had the opportunity to chat with a few of our lovely clients to hear how they’re liking the Web Player. Here are their stories:

ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SEATTLE WA

All Saints is a small church of 100 people in the heart of Seattle. By the grace of God, their app has had over 3,000 downloads! They cut their time uploading media to different sources in half by adding the Web Player as their media page on their website. Not only does the Web Player satisfy the functional requirements for them, but they are thrilled with the design of the page and how seamlessly it works with their current website. They love that it is 'easy to share and easy to update!'

ELEVATE LIFE CHURCH,  ORANGE PARK FL

Elevate Life Church in Florida implemented the Web Player onto their website immediately after release. Elevate Life fully utilizes the Web Player, Apps, and Podcasting. They promote the App and Web Player to their congregation often, and consider it a key part of their communication strategy. Because they only have to upload their media in one place now, they have seen significant time savings from what used to be hours updating across multiple services. They ‘love the streamlining capabilities’ and even based the look and feel of their website redesign on the Web Player. Elevate Life just launched their second campus and is a congregation of roughly 1,900 with over 4,500 app downloads!

LIFEGATE CHURCH, ATLANTA GA

Lifegate Church in Atlanta is a 1,000 member church. They use their App and Web Player as the resource for their congregation. By streamlining their processes, they’ve noticed that the Web Player saves several days worth of work per week. The adoption by their congregation of a centralized location for video, audio, and podcasting has ‘been awesome’. All ages have responded well to the app and Web Player from teens to members in their eighties. “The amount of people listening is over and above what we could have ever thought”.

Want to hear more about how this tool can be customized to fit your needs? We'd love to chat with you! 

What's in a Cloud?

What's in a Cloud?

If there were to be a real life “easy button”, I’d nominate Amazon’s Prime service in a heartbeat. Bear with me as I sing Amazon's praises briefly.  By saving users' payment information, order history, and providing short delivery time, Amazon transforms what could be a complex shopping process into a simple click of a button - leaving users saying, “Well, that was easy." Yet even better than the service itself, is how the service makes people feel.  Amazon Prime allows users to spend the least amount of time for the largest reward, trusting that their package will be delivered efficiently and on time.

Our Newest Layout: Gridview

 

Your artwork just became center-stage. We know you put a lot of effort into crafting beautiful images, and your Van Gogh's and Picasso's are going to love this. With our new Gridview layout option, media content can now be displayed in a way that showcases customized, beautiful artwork. We’re thrilled to see the Village Church, Mars Hill, and The Father’s House already adopting this layout with their captivating sermon series images. With a world that is becoming more and more image-centric, Gridview provides a great option to captivate users with an image based design. Happy customizing!

Ask your favorite App Specialist if you're eligible for our early release of Gridview!

Your App: Now Available in the Amazon Appstore

Kindle
Kindle

The Subsplash Platform is now available in the Amazon Appstore! The Amazon Appstore can be accessed by both Kindle and Android devices.  Amazon has spearheaded its major global expansion phase, and the Amazon Appstore is now present in nearly 200 different countries. We are very excited to be a part of Amazon’s large-scale mobile movement.

Amazon Appstore Breakdown:

  • 25 million app downloads every month.
  • Over 200,000 apps in the Appstore (almost tripling in the last year).
  • Available in nearly 200 countries including United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany and China.
  • Available in China, while Google Play has restrictions.

Our expansion into the Amazon Appstore is driven by our desire to help reach as many people as possible on the most popular platforms and devices.  With app use continuing to dominate user’s time spent on smart devices, we’ve poured our efforts into making the Subsplash Platform widely available across various mobile phones and tablets. By adding Kindle Fire, the Subsplash Platform is now available in all major existing app stores including the Google Play Store, Windows Phone Store, Apple App Store, and the Amazon Appstore (running across all iPhone, iPad, Windows Phones, Android Phones and Tablets, and now Kindle Fire devices).  With these app store giant’s global reach, we can’t wait for our users to experience delight on our Platform regardless of their device.