In 2019, Who had the biggest influence on holiday awareness each day? Who can event marketers and calendar editors most rely on? Who be a possible challenger to the dominance of National Day Calendar? Below is a list of web and social media influencers that stood out in the year. The glyph indicates that registrar services are offered.
| Twtr Foll. |
Ins Foll. |
Links | |
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National Day CalendarWidely accepted as the authoritative source for national days, as the name indicates. Offers registrar services. Founded by Marlo Anderson. |
41.3K | 22.6K |
 
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CheckidayOne of the most available on social platforms, plus an app and widget webmasters can place on their sites. |
19.6K | 1.5K |
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Chase's Calendar of EventsStarted in 1957, Chase's remains the gold standard for events, relied upon by numerous other event sites and marketers. |
3.4K |
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Days Of The YearOperates a colorful website replete with photographs for each event listing. |
28.4K | ~500 |
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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. |
16K | ~500 |
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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". |
4.8K | ~800 |
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National TodayHolidays aggregated by a PR and digital marketing agency based in San Francisco with registrar and promotional services available. |
6.9K | 7.3K |
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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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Year AheadTargets the UK PR and marketing industries with and events database of over 10,000 entries. |
4.4K | ~200 |
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YayDayzOffers a printed calendar so readers will "never miss #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay again." |
~550 |
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Awareness DaysComprehensive UK daily calendar, with a focus on health awareness days. |
2.5K |
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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. |
770K | 6.1K |
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Cute CalendarOperates Kleiner Kalendar, Chouette Calendrier, and Calendario Chiquito (Twitter followers shows these all combined). |
5.8K | ~200 |
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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. |
10.5K |
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National Day ArchivesOffers standard and premium listings for new national days in a simple to use process. |
<100 | <100 |
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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. "12.2 Million Tweets and counting." |
1.5K |
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Happy Days 365Indian site tracking national and international days, with photos for each day. |
~300 |
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PunchbowlAfter a management change, Punchbowl concentrates more on the major holidays than the routine daily ones. |
6.3K | 1.2K |
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Certain DaysA niche calendar advocating on behalf of freedom for political prisoners. |
2.3K | 1.7K |
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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!
