In 2018, Who had the biggest influence on holiday awareness each day? Who can event marketers and calendar editors most rely on? Who gained or lost this year after Twitter started purging suspicious accounts? Below is a list of web and social media influencers that stood out in 2018.
| Twtr Foll. |
Ins Foll. |
Links | |
|---|---|---|---|
National Day CalendarVia a paid Registrar service, creates dozens of widely recognized new holidays each year. Founded by Marlo Anderson. |
37K | 9.7K |
 
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Days Of The YearOperates a colorful website replete with photographs for each event listing. |
27.1K |
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Chase's Calendar of EventsStarted in 1957, Chase's is quite simply the gold standard for events, relied upon by numerous other event sites and marketers. |
3.2K |
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CheckidayOne of the most available on social platforms, plus an app and widget webmasters can place on their sites. |
21.6K | ~50 |
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FoodimentaryAs the name indicates, Foodimentary is primarily food-of-the-day oriented, rather than general holidays. Food days declared by Foodimentary carry the weight to be widely recognized by the entire holiday community. |
786K | 6.2K |
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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. |
14.9K |
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Hey What Day Is It?Active on Twitter and Instagram with nice photographs. Retweets photographs if the tweet begins with "It's". |
4.1K | ~650 |
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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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Party ExcusesOperates dozens of holiday domains in a cross-linked network, such as nationaltacoday.com, nationalsangriaday.com, etc. |
2.4K | ~250 |
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Awareness DaysComprehensive UK daily calendar, with a focus on health awareness days. |
2.4K |
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Year AheadTargets the UK PR and marketing industries with and events database of over 10,000 entries. |
4.4K |
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YayDayzOffers a printed calendar so readers will "never miss #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay again." |
~550 |
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Cute CalendarOperates Kleiner Kalendar, Chouette Calendrier, and Calendario Chiquito (Twitter followers shows these all combined). |
7.8K | ~200 |
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PunchbowlIn a seemingly endless battle with Evite, Punchbowl is an online invitation site that also covers daily holidays via apps and Twitter. |
6.4K | ~900 |
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National TodayHolidays aggregated by a PR and digital marketing agency based in San Francisco. |
6.7K | 6.3K |
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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. |
10.4K |
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Gone-ta-pottLegendary event site started back in 2004 and referenced by numerous other holiday sites. |
~450 |
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National DaysMassive Twitter following, but does not tweet with regularity. |
27.2K |
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What National Day Is It?Cleverly determines the dates for national days based on what is currently being shared across social media. Last 2018 tweet was in October, though. |
1.6K |
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Happy Days 365Indian site tracking national and international days, with photos for each day. |
~200 |
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The Twitter and Instagram followers shown are 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!
