Daily Holiday Influencers 2017

In 2017, Who had the biggest influence on holiday awareness each day? Who can event marketers and calendar editors most rely on? This list assembles Twitter feeds, websites and blogs that stand out as 2017's most influential.

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National Day Calendar

Via a paid Registrar service, creates dozens of widely recognized new holidays each year. Founded by Marlo Anderson.

32.7K 4.4K social icon
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Days Of The Year

Operates a colorful website replete with photographs for each event listing.

25.4K   social icon
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Checkiday

One of the most available on social platforms, plus an app and widget webmasters can place on their sites.

19.7K 57 social icon
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Chase's Calendar of Events

Started in 1957, Chase's is the gold standard, relied upon by numerous other event sites and marketers.

3K   social icon
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timeanddate.com

The website, online since '98, is one of the top calendar sites in the world, offering numerous tools and calculaors.

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Brownielocks

Presents clean and simple pages with special days, weeks and months, with lots of "thank you's" to supporters.

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Cute Calendar

Operates Kliener Kalendar, Chouette Calendrier, and Calendario Chiquito (Twitter followers shows these all combined).

7.7K ~200 social icon
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Foodimentary

As 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.

852K 6K social icon
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Party Excuses

Operates dozens of holiday domains in a cross-linked network, such as nationaltacoday.com, nationalsangriaday.com, etc.

2.6K ~250 social icon
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World Wide Days

Global events placed daily on Twitter and the worldwidedays.com website, with an expertise in official days in other nations.

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Hey What Day Is It?

Tweets some original photographs and retweets others if the tweet begins with "It's".

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Crazy Days To Celebrate

Bonnie Algozzine's blog leads the charge to "Celebrate Something Every Day (CSED)."

~900   social icon
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YayDayz

Offers a printed calendar so readers will "never miss #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay again."

~600   social icon
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Punchbowl

Punchbowl is an online invitation site that also covers daily holidays via apps and Twitter.

6.8K ~80 social icon
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Awareness Days

Comprehensive UK daily calendar, with a focus on health awareness days.

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Holiday Insights

Holidays, birthdays, this day in history, recipes and more. Creator of Tea for Two Tuesday and Monkey Around Day.

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Care-Aware

Daily event list largely with an altruistic theme. Caring+Awareness=Care-Aware

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National Days

Massive Twitter following, but does not tweet with regularity.

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Gone-ta-pott

Legendary event site started back in 2004 and referenced by numerous other holiday sites. Limited social activity, however.

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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.

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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!