Worship Software Sales

[jameshorsley197]

Just Curious

How many pieces of worship software are sold each year? Looking at all the software companies and the number of churches plus all the free software how can so many survive? Also as an SP and Media Shout user how many churches use more than one version?

[[Director] Joseph B]

That's a good question (wish I had an answer for you). I would suggest that others then churches are using the worship software though. I got started with Media Shout early on but the people group that showed it to me were using it for a lot of stuff other then church media.

[Sysmom]

The church media market is poised to explode. I know most of us have used media for a while, but for each church where there's a video projector being used, estimates say that there are probably 2 more where it is not used.

And some analysts have been suggesting that the churches where video projectors are being utilized are overwhelmingly using PowerPoint.

The hardware companies are ramping up to meet this new phase of church media opportunities - we've seen more and more content development in the past 24 months, and I'm pretty sure that the software developers are planning to make a splash, too.

There was an ad in our Craig's List a few months ago that read something like:

"158 Hymnals - free to good home. Our church is moving to an overhead projector and we won't be needing them."

They didn't mean a video projector mounted overhead - they meant an overhead projector. We don't even own one at our church, it was thrown out when it blew it's bulb 5 years ago while someone used it for tracing a design on the wall.

As the technology becomes less expensive, small churches will be able to add some of the media tools, too.

So I'm guessing that sales are NOWHERE near saturated and that all these companies are doing a steady business still - waiting for the explosion.

deb

[shayward]

I tend to agree. I've got friends at a lot of different churches in our rural area and we are one of the few using a projection system. But some have great interest in moving forward into the digital age.

[Mike Moore]

From someone that is doing the sales and the demo's I can tell you that there are alot of the bigger churches that are buying software and that was pretty well known, but I have also had alot of churches in the 40-100 range buying the software also. Just from what I see anyway.

Mike