Who had the biggest impact on daily holiday awareness in 2016? Who can event marketers rely on? Most importantly, where did most people hear about Talk Like a Pirate Day this year? In this list, the EventGuide™ service assembles those websites, blogs and feeds that stand out as 2016's most influential.
| Twtr Foll. |
Ins Foll. |
Links | |
|---|---|---|---|
National Day CalendarOffers a paid Registrar service that allows new national days to be officially recognized. |
25.1K | ~990 |
 
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Chase's Calendar of EventsStarted in 1957, Chase's is the gold standard, relied upon by numerous other event sites and marketers. |
2.6K |
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Days Of The YearOperates a colorful website replete with photographs for each event listing. |
21.4K |
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CheckidayOne of the most available on social platforms, plus an app and widget webmasters can place on their sites. |
13.6K | 1 |
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timeanddate.comThe website, online since '98, is one of the top calendar sites in the world, offering numerous tools and calculaors. |
12.4K |
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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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Cute CalendarOperates Kliener Kalendar, Chouette Calendrier, and Calendario Chiquito (Twitter followers shows these all combined). |
7.5K | ~190 |
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Party ExcusesOperates dozens of holiday domains in a cross-linked network, such as nationaltacoday.com, nationalsangriaday.com, etc. |
2.6K | ~270 |
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World Wide DaysGlobal events placed daily on Twitter and the worldwidedays.com website, with an expertise in official days in other nations. |
6.8K |
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FoodimentaryAs the name indicates, Foodimentary is food-of-the-day oriented, rather than general holidays, but they carry the weight to declare days that will be widely recognized by the entire holiday community. |
858K | 5.6K |
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Hey What Day Is It?Tweets original photographs and retweets holidays from a variety of sources, using "It's" at the start of each tweet. |
1.6K | ~150 |
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Crazy Days To CelebrateBonnie Algozzine's blog leads the charge to "Celebrate Something Every Day (CSED)." |
~900 |
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Celebrate Something!Reliable daily tweets of holidays and famous birthdays, presented as a hashtag list. |
~340 |
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PunchbowlPunchbowl is an online invitation site that also covers daily holidays via apps and Twitter. |
6.7K | ~60 |
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Care-AwareDaily event list largely with an altruistic theme. Caring+Awareness=Care-Aware |
6.9K |
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National DaysMassive Twitter following, but does not tweet with regularity. |
40.3K |
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Marie KernTweets individual events daily, catching many unusual events that others miss. |
~60 |
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Holiday InsightsHolidays, birthdays, this day in history, recipes and more. Creator of Tea for Two Tuesday and Monkey Around Day. |
n/a |
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Gone-ta-pottLegendary event site started back in 2004 and referenced by numerous other holiday sites. No social activity since 2015, however. |
~470 |
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Today's HolidayAn app and Twitter feed by developer Steven Tucci with daily events. |
~270 |
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The Twitter and Instagram followers shown is rounded from tallies in mid-December. Twitter's format remains the most appropriate for daily holiday announcements, but reach from all social sites were incorporated into the above rankings. Please contact us with errors / omissions. Enjoy!
