GodTube: The Big Guy Goes Online


YouTube has produced its share of celebrities: Lonelygirl15, the lip-syncing Chinese teenagers known as the Back Dormitory Boys, and Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog, to name a few.

But no single video by any of these user-generated superstars has ever attracted as many viewings as a clip of a little girl wearing a “Princess” T-shirt, reciting the Bible’s Psalm 23. That video has been viewed more than 3.7 million times — not on Google’s YouTube but on Godtube.com, the site’s upstart competitor.

Godtube, a user-generated content site that focuses on Christian-friendly videos and filters out profane or sexual references, became the single fastest-growing site on the Web just after launching in August, according to comScore Media Metrix. Chris Wyatt, the company’s founder and chief executive, says the site attracts over 3 million unique visitors a month.

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