Annual Fansite Activity Report - 1 Jan 2018
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1. Youtube
On YouTube there are 44 Jackie Evancho videos with over 1 million views totalling 104 Million hits.
Nine of these (21%) are dated Awakening or later.
Most popular are: 
a. Jackie Evancho first audition Americas Got Talent full with result and comments (14 Million views); and
b. Hallelujah feat. Jackie Evancho - Peter Hollens (6.1 Million views)
Note that in Dec 2016, 57 videos had over 1 million views. 
The loss results mainly from closure of the JackieEvanchosBest Youtube Channel.

2. Facebook
The most active Facebook sites remain unchanged from last year:
a. Jackie Evancho World (renamed, was Jackie Fans HispanoAmerica) with 13,432 followers;
b. Americas Sweetheart (6,263 members (was 4,278 last year);
c. JE Fans (5,681 followers); and
d. Jackie Evancho Around The World (renamed, was Jackie Evancho FansAround The World) 4,969 members.

This yields a long term facebook trend:
2014 - 2,000
2015 - 3,500
2016 - 4,500
2017 - 7,600

3. Custom Websites/Blogs
Proboard forums are unchanged, the most popular being http://jackieevanchofans.proboards.com/
The overseas site www.jackieevanchofans.com has closed. 
Longstanding sites such as JackieEvanchoAdmirer and JackieJunkiesBlog remain highly active.

4. Membership numbers on international fan sites continue to grow modestly.
Jackiecentral attracted 746768 hits/40288 visits (cf 40497 last year).

5. Jackie's official media with previous two years in brackets:
Facebook:  401k  (373k 322k)
Twitter:    82.3k (74.6k 62.2)       
Instagram:  53.1k (40.8k 21k)       
Youtube:    84.0  (67.5k 21k)      

6. BandsInTown trackers: 37,306   (29,102  21,408)

7. Billboards End of year results 2017:
Classical Artists: #3 Jackie Evancho (was #4 in 2016)

8. Environmental Factors:
Facebook remains dominant but is losing some percentage to competing platforms.
(Zuckerberg acknowledges manipulation of the platform (28Dev17) for political and social
engineering purposes, and has indicated significant changes for 2018. Impact remains to be seen.)
Globally, the most significantly growing platform is Weixin, used almost exclusively in China.

9. Conclusion
Fan participation trend over 12 months was positive but moderate with a growth rate around 30%, similar to last year.
The majority of growth occurred early in the year following presidential inauguration activities,
suggesting that long term growth remains stable, with the early spike now corrected.

Previous annual reports are archived at http://jackiecentral.com/archive/stats.html