Who had the biggest impact on daily holiday awareness this year? Who can event marketers rely on? Well, keeping up with Holidays and National Days is more challenging than it looks. In this list, the EventGuide™ service assembles those websites, blogs and feeds that stand out as 2015's most influential.
| Twtr Foll. |
Links | |
|---|---|---|
Chase's Calendar of EventsStarted in 1957, Chase's is a source relied upon by numerous other event sites and marketers, keeping them in the top influencer's spot. |
~2,250 |
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BrownielocksPresents clean and simple pages with special days, weeks and months, with lots of "thank you's" to supporters. |
n/a |
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National Day CalendarOffers a Registrar that allows new national days to be officially recognized. |
15.4K |
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CheckidayOne of the most available on social platforms, plus an app and widget webmasters can place on their sites. |
~9,600 |
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timeanddate.comAlmost 11K followers on just 300 tweets. The website, online since '98, is one of the top calendar sites in the world. |
10.9K |
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Cute CalendarOperates Kliener Kalendar, Chouette Calendrier, and Calendario Chiquito (Twitter followers shows these all combined). |
~3,400 |
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Party ExcusesOperates dozens of holiday domains in a cross-linked network, such as nationaltacoday.com, nationalsangriaday.com, etc. |
~2,550 |
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Days Of The YearOperates a colorful website replete with photographs for each event listing. |
16.7K |
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Gone-ta-pottLegendary event site started back in 2004. Doesn't tweet as regularly as other platforms, somewhat limiting influence this year. |
~475 |
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World Wide DaysEvents and birthdays placed on Twitter and the worldwidedays.com website. |
~2,950 |
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Celebrate Something!Daily tweets of holidays and famous birthdays, presented as a hashtag list. |
~225 |
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Crazy Days To CelebrateBonnie Algozzine's blog leads the charge to "Celebrate Something Every Day (CSED)." |
~450 |
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National DaysMassive Twitter following, but does not tweet with regularity. |
40K |
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PunchbowlPunchbowl is an online invitation site with a popular Twitter feed for daily holidays. |
~6,650 |
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Yellow Balloon (H_)Website not deployed yet; daily event tweets with photos from the Committee + Crys. |
~8,500 |
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Hey What Day Is It?Retweets holidays from a variety of sources |
~750 |
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Care-AwareDaily events with an altruistic theme. Approaching 40K lifetime tweets. Caring+Awareness=Care-Aware |
~6,800 |
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National Whatever DayTweets individual events daily. "Every Day is a Celebration!" Agreed. |
~300 |
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Holiday InsightsHolidays, birthdays, this day in history, recipes and more. |
n/a |
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The Twitter followers shown is rounded from tallies in mid-December. Although Facebook's daily holidays are very popular, Twitter's format reflects the daily holiday format best. Please contact us with errors / omissions. Enjoy!
