Social Media Calendar 2024

What Is a Social Media Calendar?

Unlike a social media content calendar, a social media calendar (specific to a year) is a resource that can be used with your social media strategy to ensure you aren’t missing any significant national holidays or major events. These are typically broken up by month to get granular insight into what’s happening daily.

Why Your Brand Needs A Social Media Calendar for 2024

While having a calendar for 2024 isn’t business-critical, it does make planning your social strategy much easier. Not only does this type of calendar help you prepare for big holidays or events weeks or even months in advance, but it also makes the day-to-day posting a little easier. Even when you might be lacking in ideas or brand content, this type of calendar features more casual “national” days that can easily be spun into fun content for brands.

How To Use Dash Hudson’s Social Media Calendar

While you may think the usage of a calendar is as simple as just looking at what’s coming up, there is a bit more to it than that. Here are a couple of tips to get the absolute most out of your social calendar for 2024.

• Add Your Most Important Dates: Inevitably, there will be dates and holidays that are important to you that we missed. Be sure to go through and add those to the calendar as soon as possible. On the flip side, there are going to be dates that aren’t relevant to you; feel free to remove those.
• Plan Ahead: We recommend using this calendar months before you ‘need’ to. By this, we mean you shouldn’t be checking out what’s happening in March on March 1. At the very least, give yourself a month or two in advance so you aren’t feeling rushed and to ensure you can plan thoughtful content and detailed creative.  
• Make It Your Own: The world is your oyster with this social media calendar. Change the format, merge it with your social media content calendar or even duplicate it and use it for other projects outside of social.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reuse this template for planning for years to come. All you have to do is edit the year and the days of the month to have a whole new calendar for year after year. And if that feels like too much, come back next year for our 2025 edition.

It’s time to start planning for the year ahead. Download your free social media calendar for 2024 to get started today.