Another year has passed with the blog at a good pace; it has now been three years of regular publications and almost seven years since the first posts. As I did last year, in this final post of the year, I will review the most notable figures and the most visited content.
It is very interesting to see how visits have continued to grow this year, especially considering that I have reduced the number of monthly entries.
At the end of last year, I changed the weekly publication schedule from two posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays to a single post on Wednesdays. Despite this, the past months of October and November have been the best so far, with no fewer than 8,350 and 8,237 sessions respectively.
The total throughout 2018 was 109,914 visits (sessions according to Analytics) compared to 67,959 in 2017.
But the best part has not been the visits, but the increase in subscribers, the comments, and the emails I have been receiving from regular readers whom I have been able to help—an interaction that continues to grow every year.
The number of subscribers is already on the verge of 1,000, a very good figure considering that in May I did a cleanup to adapt the blog to the new General Data Protection Regulation, going from 800 subscribers to 400. Therefore, it represents a growth of about 600 new subscribers in just 8 months.
At an international level, it is also consolidating; in addition to Spain (which represents 51%), the countries with the most followers are Mexico and Argentina, followed by Colombia, Chile, Peru, and the United States. In total, there have been visits from 137 different countries, although some of them are not very significant.
As for comments, there are now 683 across 214 published entries.
The most notable content during 2018
The content is focused on film distribution, especially at festivals and in any format, whether short films or feature films. The blog has become a very important professional tool in my daily life, as it allows me to maintain a personal archive and share many of the topics that arise during my own work process.
Here is a selection of the most visited and most read posts among those I have published this year.
#1 Documentary distribution: 5 festivals to start with now
#2 Key points of the new 2019 Goya Awards rules for short films
#3 10 award-winning documentary short films at festivals between 2017 and 2018 that you must see
#4 How to negotiate the sales of your short film?
#5 The ultimate guide to designing a festival premiere strategy
#6 7 film festivals in the United States that have recently opened their call for entries
#7 Festival databases: The new generation
#8 How to approach short film distribution after the festival premiere?
#10 How can you define the production date of your film?
It is worth highlighting the interest in documentaries, with two posts in the top three, and the Goya Awards, which, despite being a very specific topic during the year, holds the second position.
I hope this summary helps you whether you have already read them or have recently arrived, as it can be a good opportunity to start browsing older publications.
Let’s go for 2019!