Fansite Activity Report from jackiecentral.com - Jan 2016
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1. Youtube
JackieEvanchosBest Youtube Channel remains dominant with 114k subscribers and 50,000,000 views.
On YouTube there are 2 Jackie Evancho videos with over 10 million views, and a further 41 with over 1 million views.
Three of the top ten are post AGT era.
As in previous years, some well viewed videos have been removed.

2. Facebook
The most active sites remain Fans Around the World, Americas Sweetheart, and Jackie Evancho Music (Evangels). 
These have about 3500 members each (cf around 2000 last year) for a good increase over 12 months.
There is some membership overlap and content sharing.
Hispanoamerica does not record membership numbers but is very active.
Twelve more in the 500 to 4000 range (Last year there were '20 more in the 100 to 500 members range'.)

3. Amazon Discussion Forum
Most active thread remains 'Jackie Evancho -General Discussion'. 
Participant numbers are declining, but activity is steady.

4. Custom Websites/Blogs
BestOfJackieOnTheWeb and jackieevanchofanclub.freeforums.net have closed, along with some older national sites from the DWM era (Philippines, Mexico and Chile).
These are replaced by a new Russian site, thejackieeffect.com, and a range of new Facebook pages.

Typical membership numbers increasing eg Russia 700. (Last year: 50 to 200).
Enthusiast sites (Netherlands, Spain, ForLoveOfJackie, France, Denmark, JackieCentral) continue to be maintained.
JackieJunkies blog becoming very active late in the year.
Jackiecentral attracts 50k to 70k hits per month (last year: 40k to 90k hits per month) and 2000 to 3000 unique visitors per month (no change)

5. Jackie's official media:
Facebook: 322k
Twitter: 62.2 followers
Instagram: 21k followers
Youtube: 21k

6. BandsInTown trackers: 21,408

7. Billboards End of year results 2015:
Classical Albums: #3 Awakening
Classical Artists: #4 Jackie Evancho

Billboards Classical Albums 30 December 2015:
Awakening is in position #13 after 66 weeks on the charts

8. Environmental Changes:
Facebook introduced embedded videos, with possible long term impact on the significance Facebook/Youtube marketing mix.
Example is the release of 'To Believe' on facebook collecting 22 million views in a few months.
However, these viewcounts are calculated differently and should not be directly compared.

9. Conclusion
Fan participation trend over 12 months was positive but moderate. 
The AOTS 'controversy' had negligible impact.