Year-End Wrap-Ups Worth Stealing (2024)

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Every year, we trade playlists in December. Someone’s deep into obscure indie. Someone else (it’s me) has Disney next to synthwave and metal, thanks to kids hijacking the smart speakers.

That simple recap vibe is why these year-in-review roundups land: proprietary data turned into a story people want to share. It’s not just Spotify anymore. Plenty of teams package their annual data into something scannable and socially sharable.

Below are some of our favorites and the elements we think you should borrow. Interested in building your own? Jump to the end for a way to start.

A vibrant graphic features bold, large text reading "2024 WRAPPED" in black. The background is a dynamic blend of bright colors, including shades of blue, purple, and yellow, with geometric shapes and layered textures creating a sense of depth. The Spotify logo is positioned to the left of the text. A small "SCROLL" indicator is located at the bottom of the image.

Spotify Wrapped

Why people care

Wrapped is an annual ritual. People expect it, compare with friends, and post it as a small act of identity, “this is who I was this year.” The format rewards curiosity (surprises in your top artists), reflection (how your habits changed), and status (taste signaling on social). It’s quick, visual, and built to be shared in seconds, which is why it dominates feeds for a week every December.

What to borrow

  • Reflect the user to themselves.
  • Keep it fast, cards or slides, not walls of text.
  • Design for sharing from the start.

Corporate Message: Spotify 2024 Wrapped

Personalized Message (updates annually): 2025 Wrapped on Spotify

The image features a dark background with large, bold text that reads "2024 YEAR IN REVIEW." The text is styled in various colors, including purple and gold. Below this, there is a statement: "Building the infrastructure that powers the startup economy." Prominently displayed is the figure "$171B," indicating a significant financial statistic. At the top, there are navigation options including "PLATFORM," "2024 BUILD," "ECOSYSTEM," "OUR TEAM," and a "JOIN US" button.

AngelList 2024

Why people care

AngelList’s annual page distills a year of startup activity into a clear snapshot: where capital flowed, what roles companies hired for, which sectors heated up, and how founder and investor behavior shifted. Because the report builds on real marketplace signals (jobs, talent, and funding), readers treat it like a benchmark. Founders and operators use it to double-check plans; investors use it to spot momentum and compare cycles. It’s a fast way to understand the year without living in spreadsheets.

What to borrow

  • Lead with market‑level insights drawn from your own aggregated data.
  • Give a skimmable executive summary (5–7 bullets) before deep charts.
  • Provide downloadable graphics and a short highlights section for PR and decks.
  • Link to methods so the numbers feel sturdy and repeatable.

2024 Year in Review | AngelList

A vibrant, colorful illustration featuring a collage of diverse characters, some with distinct hairstyles and expressions, set against a dark background. Prominent elements include a retro marquee sign that reads "YEAR IN REVIEW 2024" and stylized trees in the background. The characters display a range of emotions and styles, including a robot and individuals in various poses, contributing to a lively and dynamic composition. The artwork is presented by "NEON" and features the Letterboxd logo in the corner.

Letterboxd Year in Review

Why people care

Letterboxd turns the year in film into an editorial event. The 2024 recap maps what mattered, most‑logged movies, breakout performers, highest‑rated releases, festival darlings, and hidden gems, using platform data plus curation. It gives fans a common reference point for movie talk, fuels watchlists for the holidays, and captures the mood of the year without requiring heavy personalization. Signed‑in members can still view their own stats, but the headline experience is a culture snapshot anyone can browse.

What to borrow

  • Treat your category like a culture map: what defined the year beyond your product?
  • Blend data with editorial judgment so the story feels authoritative, not auto‑generated.
  • Make it timeless and browsable (lists, spotlights, archives), with clear CTAs to keep exploring.

The Letterboxd 2024 Year in Review

The image features a collage of four colorful cards from a Reddit recap for 2024. 1. The first card, titled "Game Virtuoso," showcases a cartoon character with orange skin and a playful expression, dressed in casual attire. It mentions gaming across various platforms and includes links to subreddits like r/wordle, r/worldnews, and r/plagueinc. 2. The second card, labeled "Meme Machine," depicts a character with green eyes and a hat, emphasizing their role in internet culture. 3. The third card displays a cute black rabbit sitting on a towel, associated with the subreddit r/Rabbits. It highlights the user's most upvoted post, suggesting community support. 4. The final card presents a playful statistic: "You scrolled 2,434,342 bananas this year," accompanied by a pixelated banana graphic, noting that no bananas were harmed in the calculation. Each card is designed with vibrant backgrounds and engaging text, reflecting a fun and interactive summary of the user's Reddit activity.

Reddit Recap

Why people care

It connects your personal browsing to the wider culture of Reddit. You see the communities and moments that shaped the year, plus the context you likely missed. That blend of “me” and “we” creates belonging, validates time spent, and sparks new follows and conversations. It’s as much a tour of internet culture as it is a recap.

What to borrow

  • Pair “you” data with “community” data.
  • Use comparisons to show scale.
  • Highlight moments, not just metrics.

View Highlights from Reddit r/recap

The image features a webpage titled "Cloudflare Radar Year in Review 2024." The background is a gradient of dark blue and purple. Key highlights include statistics about internet traffic growth, adoption of programming languages, and connectivity insights. Specific points mentioned are a 3.3x increase in SpaceX Starlink traffic, the popularity of the Go programming language, Spain having the highest download speed, and a note on security regarding gambling and games. There are also sections for email security, indicating that the .bar domain had a significant share of spam. The layout includes various boxes with icons and text, emphasizing different data points.

Cloudflare Radar Year in Review (2024)

Why people care

Cloudflare’s recap uses data from organizational‑scale telemetry and purpose‑built data visualization. It synthesizes traffic spikes, outages, attack patterns, protocol adoption, country‑level connectivity, and service usage into clean charts that a CTO, comms lead, or reporter can drop straight into a brief. Because the data comes from Cloudflare’s global network, it reads as a neutral, credible view of the internet, useful for benchmarking reliability, understanding security risk, and explaining the year’s events to non‑engineers.

What to borrow

  • Build from your first‑party data and show the method so the visuals are defensible.
  • Design charts for reuse: clear titles, labeled axes, consistent units, downloadable images.
  • Organize by themes, like reliability, performance, and security, so different stakeholders can skim what matters.
  • Add concise “what it means” annotations next to the visual to bridge data → decision.

Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year in Review

A dark background features the year "2024" prominently in a large, stylized font. The text is colored in a light shade, creating a strong contrast against the black backdrop. Surrounding the year are small blue particles or dots, adding a dynamic visual element. Below the year, a brief description highlights COLAB's focus on growth, collaboration, and impact for the year, emphasizing their mission to deliver exceptional results and build lasting partnerships. The layout is clean and modern, with navigation options for services, solutions, work, process, about, insights, and contact positioned at the top.

COLAB Year in Review (2024)

We closed our own year with a public recap. A few highlights:

  • Work, at a glance: 65 clients served, 164 deployments, 48 design projects, 6,397 code commits, and 447 bugs squashed.
  • New partnerships & major projects: From Appily and Hilldrup to Virginia Credit Union and Sports Backers, we shipped work for long-time and new clients alike.
  • Team & community: 23 teammates, milestone anniversaries (including Ralph at 15 years), DEIB training hours, and local support through donated time and a school supply drive.

Want the full picture? Read COLAB’s Year in Review (2024).

Build Your Own (without a long build)

  1. Pick one narrative. Growth, community impact, product adoption, or customer wins.
  2. Choose 5–7 metrics that serve that narrative. If a number doesn’t move the story forward, drop it.
  3. Show change. This year vs. last, you vs. the community, you vs. your goal.
  4. Design for speed. Mobile-first cards, bite-sized text, tap-through flow.
  5. Make it share-ready. Exportable images, prewritten captions, and social-safe contrast.
  6. Personalize where you can. Even small touches (name, segment, region) help.
  7. Ship a v1. Start with a lightweight microsite or card set; add interactivity next year.

Starter metric ideas

  • Top 3 moments or launches
  • Most engaged content or feature
  • Growth (users, customers, revenue, donations)
  • Community highlights (events, volunteers, creators)
  • Footprint (cities, countries)
  • “You vs. last year” for each user/customer

Don’t Forget to Celebrate the Wins

A tight year-in-review can celebrate wins, thank your audience, and set the tone for January. Want help turning raw data into a clean, interactive microsite? COLAB can handle the design and build while your team curates the story.