October Newsletter
Welcome to the BeardedBlevins Newsletter.
We love you, God loves you more. Let’s change the world.
Authored by Matt McClure on Jul 28, 202
Happy Octobeard! 🎃
October is ending and life remains as crazy as ever at LFM! We went to TwitchCon and spent 4 days in San Diego, started live streaming on TikTok, launched our own DMCA-free albums under “BeardedBeats” on all music platforms, and broke into the top 75 Fortnite Twitch channels!
San Diego hosted TwitchCon this year and we had an amazing time hanging out with the chat moderators for our channel! For those who don’t know, live streaming is a collaborative effort that involves moderators (or “mods”) to help police the channel to keep it free of negative comments, questionable content, toxic behavior, etc. Our mods are the most dedicated people in the community and truly believe in the mission and content that LFM puts out. We thank them for all their help and hard work as BeardedBlevins would be nothing without their efforts! We were blessed to be together to make media, share meals and go to mass as the BeardedBlevins Stream Team. The event itself was full of people who recognized and appreciated Jon for all of his efforts to bring light to the internet. We met and networked with several like minded content creators and we’re excited to see what these relationships will bring in the future because, “A rising tide lifts all boats” - Matt Marcolini.
The live streams on TikTok have boosted our discoverability. We are now regularly holding 400+ concurrent viewers on Twitch and getting 10-12K total viewers per day! It is another platform that is putting our content in front of a potentially “at risk” audience who needs to hear that we love them, God loves them more, and together we can change the world. 💙
BeardedBeats launched in October and by the time you read this, we’ll have 2 albums out and streaming on all music platforms with another on the way this week. The goal of this music was twofold. To create music that we owned as an organization and would be able to use internally for video projects without fear of copyright infringement, and to grow community and provide exposure to the mission of BeardedBlevins and Little Flower Media.
Finally, the BeardedBlevins Twitch channel broke into the top 75 most viewed streams for Fortnite in the world. This is great news for the mission of LFM to “pre-evangelize” in a space where faith and integrity are regularly absent from daily content people are consuming with so much of their lives.
This Month’s Top Stories
BeardedBeats 🎵
We’ve recently launched a collection of copyright-free music for all to enjoy available on streaming platforms everywhere.
There are currently two albums published; “Mountains” which possess a smooth downtempo (some would say buttery 🧈) sound, great for work and study. The second album titled “Asteroid” takes a turn for upbeat drum & bass/electronic styled tracks, perfect for gaming. Explore the tracks on your prefered streaming at BeardedBeats.io.
Sponsors
True Classic has provided our community with 20% off any purchase using code BEARDED20 at checkout! Discover the True Classic difference.
University of St. Thomas Houston continues to be amazing and our partnership with them is wonderful to have. Check out MAX Studios from UST for more amazing content!
Phocus Water and Hot Charlies are helping us grow our reach and create a fun atmosphere for our community (use code BLEVINS15 for 15% off!).
Stay tuned as we announce new partnerships & sponsors in the coming weeks 🌟
Shows
“Around the Halo” is an online show, streamed on Twitch, where 4 guests give their “hot takes” on everything from pop culture to church teachings. A variety of guests have made the second season entertaining and informative as several different winners were crowned in a “points don’t matter” format that all enjoy.
“Pardon the Intercession” brought together the wonderful minds of Jonathan Blevins and Joel Stepanek for entertaining discussion and deep debate in this 1 on 1 “fast take format”. Discussions are fast paced and packed with content as we discuss everything from football to celebrity culture.
