Social media is a powerful tool and the Ada Icon uses it very successfully to attract viewers.

At the moment the Icon has 490 Facebook friends. We post from one or two items on our Facebook page every day. Here’s some examples of the number of people we’ve reached this spring, which demonstrates our most popular stories. These are the top five stories that attracted viewers from Facebook:

1 - Ada prom videos reached 1,265 on facebook
2 - 1924 Ada football team reached 667
3 - Craig Hoffman 15 minute interview reached 580
4 - Bailey Bowers 15 minute interview reached 568
5 - Spring fever follies photos reached 445

Thanks to Google Analytics, we know lots about our viewers.

In the past 30 days, for example, we’ve had:
• 4,545 views from 2,346 individual viewers. This means lots of viewers are returning twice or more a day to The Icon.

• During that period 10,194 Icon pages were visited. The average time a viewer spends on the Icon is 1 minute 43 seconds.

Where are these visitors from? Well, 90 percent are from Hardin County. The top five communities, in order of viewers is:
1 – Ada
2 – Kenton
3 – Lima,
4 – Findlay
5 – Bluffton

In the past 30 days the Icon was visited by internet viewers from 49 countries and 44 states. Somehow we missed out on Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Montana, North Dakota and Hawaii.

Any Ada resident with friends in those six states, please send them a note. We'd like to be viewed in all 50 states.