By Spencer Kitley

The past year proved to be a landmark year at CoveritLive, hosting a record number of events, attracting some of the largest audiences to-date and incorporating more-and-more new features to the already robust experience. The year included marquee events around the U.S. Presidential election, the Summer Olympics, Academy Awards, France's Presidential election and Apple’s iPad and iPhone 5 announcements. The yearly numbers include key data and highlights from the top events of the first 11 months of the year.

2012 by the numbers

• This year CoveritLive has hosted more than 327,000 events.

• In 2012, CoveritLive events attracted a total of 331 million clicks. The click metric is defined as a reader that actively clicks into a CiL event.

• The single largest month by click volume was May, when more than 42 million readers clicked into CiL events

• March notched the top spot for most events in a single month in 2012 with 41,459

• CoveritLive attracted almost 1.5 billion page views during 2012

• In 2012, in excess of 224 million Tweets were pushed through CoveritLive events

• The largest CoveritLive event of 2012 was French publisher, Le Monde’s live coverage of the shootings in Toulouse, France in late March that attracted 5,768,897 readers. In the U.S., Yahoo held the largest event of the year, drawing an audience of 2,583,378 readers to its live Hurricane Sandy coverage.