CHStoday Wrapped 2023: Here’s the content you loved the most

Today, we’re diving into our readers’ data to give you your CHStoday wrapped — sharing with you our readers’ top articles, social posts, and more from this year.

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We love a rooftop view of the Holy City at Ritual.

Photo by the CHStoday team

If you’re a Spotify user, I’m sure you were delighted last month when you received your yearly stats including a roundup of your favorite artists, total minutes listened, top songs, and more. Today we’re exploring our readers’ data to give you your CHStoday Wrapped — sharing with you our readers’ top articles, social posts, and more from this year.

Quick overview

  • February was the month with the highest open rate for newsletters.
  • We’ve gained ~3,000 new subscribers.
  • Between Instagram + Facebook, we have a combined ~123,000 followers.

Instagram data

In September, we reached a huge milestone of getting to 100K followers, reached ~614,000 accounts, and gained ~9,000 followers.

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Our Crush Yard reel had one of our largest reaches this fall.

Photo by CHStoday

Top webpages

Since January, we’ve had ~513,000 webpage views. Here are five of our top-viewed articles from this year. It’s no surprise that the Holy City resident like their events, development news, and the scoop on new businesses.

  1. Events page
  2. Visit May Forest
  3. 11 upcoming concerts in Charleston
  4. Our subscribe page
  5. New and coming-soon businesses to Charleston
    An ariel view of Downtown Charleston

    Travel + Leisure readers love our southern charm.

    Photo by Matthew Peacock.

    Top newsletters

    We get it, sometimes you’re busy + miss stuff. Here are five of our most opened newsletters.

    1. Paying parking tickets + new grocery store
    2. Local cooking classes + summer service hours
    3. Ashley Landing redevelopment + oyster recycling
    4. Ever-changing tides + 12-ft. shark off the coast
    5. Name that bug + new hotels
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