Every site does a “Year In Review” nowadays. I know some people find them a creepy reminder of how much data is collected about us, but I love them. Quantified self plus pretty infographics? How could I say no?
For 2025, I collected some of my favourites:
- Gaming
- Music
- Books
- Podcasts
- Exercise
- Travel
- Social media
- Content creation
- Videos
- Beer
This isn’t even all the ones I got! I didn’t capture some of the less interesting ones (like Sainsbury’s) or the ones that didn’t have enough data to be worth it (like Strava).
It was interesting when they were all sent out, with Spotify out first on December 3rd, and Nintendo out last on January 13th. There is a trade-off between getting attention before Christmas but missing out on data for the last couple weeks, or capturing the whole year’s data but being later out.
I think I prefer Goodreads‘s best-of-both-worlds approach with an early infographics-heavy version that had a cut-off in mid-December, and a simpler version that was kept up to date until the very end of the year.
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