15 Wrapped Campaign Examples: Brands That Nailed the Year in Review
Spotify invented the format, but the year-in-review recap now belongs to everyone. Language apps, banks, game stores and running platforms all send their users a personal data story every December. Here are 15 wrapped campaign examples worth studying, what each one gets right, and what the format looks like when a normal-sized brand does it.
- The strongest wrapped campaigns turn usage data into identity: streaks, rankings, percentiles and personas people want to share.
- Music apps started it, but fintech (Monzo), fitness (Strava, Peloton) and gaming (PlayStation, Steam, Nintendo) now run the biggest recaps outside Spotify.
- Almost every example rewards sharing with a designed, story-format card sized for Instagram and TikTok.
- You do not need platform-scale data: five to seven interesting numbers are enough for a full wrapped story.
- Smaller brands can ship the same format with an agency in days, not quarters.
The originals: music and media
Spotify Wrapped
The benchmark. Spotify packages listening minutes, top artists and genre personas into a tappable story with share cards for every slide. The 2025 edition reached more than 300 million engaged users and 630 million shares. If you study one campaign, study how every Wrapped slide is designed to be screenshotted.1
Apple Music Replay
Apple's answer runs all year: Replay updates monthly and unlocks a full recap in December, with milestones for listening minutes. Its lesson is the opposite of Spotify's: a recap does not have to be a once-a-year event, it can be a product feature with an annual crescendo.2
YouTube Music Recap
YouTube Music generates seasonal recaps every quarter plus a yearly edition with mood and "listening personality" labels. It shows how far you can go with playful pseudo-science: people share the persona, not the number.3
Fintech: money as a story
Monzo's Year in Monzo
The UK neobank shows customers their spending story: top merchants, most-used features and oddly specific stats. Money is sensitive, so Monzo keeps the tone warm and opt-in. It is the best proof that even "boring" transactional data makes a shareable story.4
Revolut and the copycat wave
Nearly every major neobank now ships a year-end recap of spending categories and travel. The takeaway for any brand: once one competitor in your category ships a wrapped, the format becomes table stakes within two seasons.
Fitness: sweat equity
Strava's Year in Sport
Strava turns a year of workouts into pride: total distance, elevation, active days and a personal highlight reel. Athletes share these cards unprompted because the recap doubles as proof of work. Best-in-class at making the user the hero.5
Peloton's Year in Review
Peloton recaps classes, minutes, streaks and favorite instructors, and mails it right when New Year resolution season starts. Smart timing: the recap is simultaneously a retention play and a re-activation campaign.6
Duolingo's Year in Review
Duolingo recaps XP, minutes, lessons and streaks, ranks you against other learners, and pays a small in-app reward for sharing. It is the most aggressive shareability design on this list, and it works.7
Gaming: the leaderboard instinct
PlayStation Wrap-Up
Sony's annual Wrap-Up counts hours played, trophies and top genres, and hands out a shareable summary card. Gaming data is inherently competitive, and the campaign leans into it.8
Steam Replay
Valve's Steam Replay shows play sessions, achievement counts and monthly patterns for your game library. Notable for its transparency: it launched as a simple stats page and still gets shared millions of times.9
Nintendo's Year in Review
Nintendo mails Switch owners a personalized recap of play time and most-played games. The quiet lesson: this one is an email campaign at heart, proving the format does not need an app takeover to work.10
Tools and platforms
Reddit Recap
Reddit recaps your posts, comments, upvotes and the communities you spent the most time in, wrapped in meme-aware copy. It nails tone: the recap sounds like Reddit, not like a marketing department.11
Grammarly's writing stats
Grammarly sends weekly writing stats and a year-end wrap-up of words checked, vocabulary and productivity streaks. It shows the low-tech end of the spectrum: a data-driven email, no fancy player, still forwarded and screenshotted constantly.12
Chess.com's Year in Chess
Chess.com recaps games played, rating changes, favorite openings and puzzle streaks. A niche product with passionate users is the perfect wrapped candidate: the more your users care about their own progress, the better the format performs.13
What this looks like for a normal brand
Your brand's wrapped
You do not need 600 million users. A coffee shop knows your order count and favorite drink. A gym knows your visits and personal records. A SaaS tool knows your projects and busiest week. Five to seven numbers, a narrative arc and share cards are enough; that is the entire format.
We build exactly these: tap-through, Spotify-style wrapped experiences for brands, done for you in days. See the live demos in our examples gallery, including a coffee brand, a fitness app and a SaaS product, or read the case studies with the numbers behind them. If you want to build one yourself, start with our step-by-step guide.
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- 1 Speakers Legend (speakerslegend.com)
- 2 Apple Music Replay (music.apple.com)
- 3 YouTube Blog (blog.youtube)
- 4 Monzo (monzo.com)
- 5 Strava (strava.com)
- 6 Peloton (onepeloton.com)
- 7 Android Authority (androidauthority.com)
- 8 PlayStation (playstation.com)
- 9 Steam (store.steampowered.com)
- 10 Nintendo (nintendo.com)
- 11 Reddit (reddit.com)
- 12 Grammarly (grammarly.com)
- 13 Chess.com (chess.com)
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