[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] For the Episcopal Church Office of Communication, 2013 was a remarkable year.

“The year 2013 showed continued dramatic growth in audiences for all of our digital publications, our website and our social media outlets,” noted Anne Rudig, Director of Communication. Our internal and external media relations efforts yielded some significant placements and much expanded activity.”

By the numbers:

Episcopal Church website: www.episcopalchurch.org

• Total Visits: 1,940,698
• Pages viewed: 5,538,706
• 62.34% represent new visitors

Top 10 pages for 2013:

• Homepage 607,002
• Find A Church 104,369
• Calendar 87,342
• Book of Common Prayer 74,427
• About Us 67,751
• Bible 58,098
• History of the Church 57,560
• Lectionary 56,636
• Baptismal Covenant 50,435
• Core Beliefs 46,177

Episcopal Digital Network
Episcopal News Service, Sermons That Work, Lesson Plans That Work, Wayfarer
January 1 to December 10

• Total visitors: 641,488
• Pages viewed: 2,807,475
• Marketing Your Parish White Paper downloads: 1,837

Episcopal News Service website visitors: 440,295 (an increase of nearly 100,000 over the last year); page views: 1.5 million

Multimedia

• Total plays: 240,246 (up more than 140,000 from the previous year)

Most watched videos:

• Portia Adney 15,513
• Mike Notter 11,948
• Gospel Americana: The Music at Thad’s 9,512
• Brother Geoffrey 9,050
• Adrienne Stillman 7, 442

Facebook
June 10 – December 10

• People who liked our page: 54,712, increasing at an average of 58 per day.
• Various posts average 2,812 likes, 203 comments and 751 shares per day.
• Daily engaged users: 3,506
• Weekly engaged users: 17,895
• Posts have a daily average reach of 61,650 people
• Posts have a weekly average reach of 248,652 people
• People that click on our posts leading someplace else: Daily: 2211
• People that click on our posts leading someplace else: Weekly: 11,878

Twitter
January 1, 2013 – December 10

• Tweeted 5195 times
• Current followers: 18,148
• Currently following: 5,020
• Evening prayer averages about 25-40 re-tweets every night.

Public Affairs
January 1 – December 11

Over 185 media releases with an additional 33 in Spanish resulted in placements throughout the Episcopal Church, the dioceses, and secular news organizations both in the U.S. and internationally. In addition, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Religion News Service, Wisconsin Public Radio, Newsday and other major publications included churchwide information ranging in topics from statements by Presiding Bishop to announcements and progress updates. Media placements in regional/national print/electronic outlets were sparked by many Episcopal Church events and happenings, including the State of Racism in November (pre and post coverage); as well as placements in major outlets like the Huffington Post on Veterans day, Zimmerman Verdict, Memorial Day, and Gun Violence.