Top Stories and Traffic Information for 2015

Happy New Year all!

As you can see below, 2015 was a great year for the Behind the Curtain Cincinnati blog.

What Behind the Curtain does, beyond social media, is serve as a portal into our rich and vibrant performing arts scene. Routinely, Behind the Curtain ranks high in google search results.

To keep the momentum going, I need your help. While social media is a great publicity tool, it certainly does not replace the need for publicists to send out press information.

For example, keep in mind that Facebook only pushes your posts out to about 10% of your fans. Liking and sharing the posts important to you can increase their reach dramatically. The same is true for all posts from Behind the Curtain.

In 2015, I posted 1,428 new entries, bringing total entries up to just over 5,000.

Overall traffic:

Total views for 2015 were 262, 441.
This was a 76% increase over 2014.

Total visitors for 2015 were 113,854.
This was an 85% increase over 2014.

Views per visitor: 2.31

Page traffic for 2015:

1. Auditions 26,354
2. Featured Stories 24,819
3. Home page / Archives 18,537
4. On Stage This Week 3,490
5. Reviews 2,809
6. Coming Soon On Stage 2,081
7. Future Productions 1,909
8. About 712
9. Events 668
10. 2015 Fringe Festival 424

For the top 50 stories listed below, the breakdown by category is:

• 19 – Auditions
• 13 – Cast lists
• 4 – Press releases, Season announcements
• 3 – Original stories
• 2 – Awards, Casting Calls, My reviews
• 1 – Other reviews, Production page

For the top 50 stories listed below, the breakdown by organization is:

• 6 – Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre
• 5 – The Carnegie
• 4 – Broadway in Cincinnati, Covedale Center for the Performing Arts
• 3 – Cincinnati Music Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, La Comedia Dinner Theatre, Other
• 2 – Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Dare to Defy Productions, Footlighters, League of Cincinnati Theatres
• 1 – ACT Cincinnati, Beechmont Players, Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Clifton Players/Untethered Theatre Company, Falcon Theater, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Loveland Stage Company, Northern Kentucky University, Queen City Productions, Skyline, Sunset Players

Top 50 stories of 2015:

1. Casting Call for Skyline Chili TV Commercial (Top story for July) 8,932
2. 2015-2016 Season Announced by Broadway in Cincinnati (Top story for March) 1,182
3. 2015 League of Cincinnati Theatres Awards (Top story for August) 1,136
4. Auditions Announced for THE WIZARD OF OZ presented by The Carnegie 1,108
5. Auditions Announced for 2016 Summer Classic Season at Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre (Top story for November) 1,089
6. Cast Announced for THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Carnegie (Top story for October) 1,001
7. Auditions Announced for MARY POPPINS at Cincinnati Music Theatre 854
8. THE SECRET GARDEN Opens Playhouse in the Park’s 2015-2016 Season, Sept. 5-Oct. 3 827
9. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s 2015-2016 Mainstage Season Auditions 826
10. 2014-2015 Orchid Awards (Top story for June) 741
11. Cincinnati Auditions for Broadway’s THE BOOK OF MORMON on April 11 (Top story for April) 731
12. St. Xavier High School Grad “Tappy Touring with CINDERELLA” 725
13. My 2015 Cincy Fringe Show Rankings 718
14. Auditions Announced for NEXT FALL at Falcon Theatre 701
15. Cast Announced for COMPANY at The Carnegie (Top story for May) 660
16. 2016 Season Announced at La Comedia Dinner Theatre 639
17. Cast Announced for MARY POPPINS at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts 638
18. The Passing of Blake Bowden (Top story for September) 629
19. Auditions Announced for AVENUE Q and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS at the Incline Theatre 598
20. Auditions Announced for Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID at La Comedia 593
21. Season Auditions Announced for Dare 2 Defy Productions 565
22. 2015-2016 Season Announced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 554
23. Cast Announced for BONNIE AND CLYDE at Sunset Players 546
24. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Review (GYTN) (Top story for February) 540
25. Cast Announced for A CHORUS LINE at Covedale Center 520
26. Auditions Announced for THE LAST FIVE YEARS at The Carnegie 518
27. Cast Announced for MARY POPPINS at Cincinnati Music Theatre 509
28. Cast Announced for RENT at Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre 506
29. NKU Theatre Announces 2015-2016 Academic Season 494
30. Auditions Announced for 2016-2017 Season at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (Top story for December) 492
31. Know Theatre Announces the 2015 Cincinnati Fringe Festival Lineup 488
32. Cast Announced for AVENUE Q at Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre 479
33. Auditions Announced for WE DUET ALL Performers 478
34. A CHORUS LINE Review 477
35. Open Call Auditions in Cincinnati for MOTOWN THE MUSICAL on Sept. 16 474
36. Open Casting Call for Movie A CHRISTMAS MELODY 460
37. Cast Announced for THE SOUND OF MUSIC at The Covedale Center 441
38. Auditions Announced for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Footlighters 427
39. Open Auditions Announced for CALCULUS THE MUSICAL Tour at Know Theatre of Cincinnati 422
40. Auditions Announced for A CHRISTMAS STORY The Musical at La Comedia Dinner Theatre 421
41. Cast Announced for THE PRODUCERS at Warsaw Federal Incline Theater 418
42. Tony Award Winner Karen Ziemba Cast in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s World Premiere of NATIVE GARDENS 412
43. Auditions Announced for COMPANY at The Carnegie 409
44. Cincinnati Music Theatre Announces Cast of BIG FISH 406
45. Cast Announced for HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at The Footlighters 394
46. Auditions Announced for DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY at Beechmont Players 388
47. Cast Announced for INTO THE WOODS by Dare 2 Defy Productions 386
48. JEKYLL AND HYDE The Musical at Loveland Stage Company 385
    RENT Runs Dec. 2-20 385
49. Auditions Announced for SHREK The Musical by Queen City Productions 383
50. LCT Review of ALADDIN JR 378