At the end of every year I like to take some time to look back at my top content from the past 12 months and compare how well they each performed on social media. This compilation features my 30 greatest hits from 2015, including my best tutorials, free resources and articles in order of their popularity judging by the total share count. Which one from the list was your favourite? Or was there a particular post you really enjoyed that didn’t make the cut?
With over 61,500 shares, my roundup of free logo mockup PSDs was the most popular post of 2015. Conversely, my video tutorial for creating seamless patterns in Illustrator failed to attract quite as much attention with just 51 shares, making it the worst performing post of 2015. Video tutorials on the whole aren’t being shared much at all, but they’re actually doing pretty well directly on YouTube, where they’re helping establish a great audience on the Spoon Graphics channel. The most popular video on there has a whopping 435,585 views and counting!
Annoyingly Twitter decided to shut down their share count button just a few weeks ago so the totals exclude the thousands of tweets my posts received. These figures are calculated from the addition of all the Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon and Pinterest votes.
61.5k shares: 20 Free Logo Mockup PSDs to Present your Designs
14.2k shares: 60 Quality FREE Fonts You Probably Don’t Own, But Should!
11.2k shares: Showcase of Stylish Single Weight Line Art Illustrations
11.0k shares: 4 Free Ink Stamp Effect Styles for Adobe Illustrator
8.6k shares: My Top 30 Fonts with the Sexiest Ampersands
5.5k shares: 20 Free Editable CV/Resume Templates for PS & AI
5.1k shares: How To Create Complex Mandala Patterns in Illustrator
4.6k shares:30 Inspirational Chalk Lettering Designs & Wall Murals
4.5k shares: 8 Free Stipple Shading Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
4.4k shares: 10 Free Detailed Vector Halftone Texture Backgrounds
2.7k shares: 30 Creative Beer Bottle Label & Packaging Designs
2.5k shares: How To Cut Anything Out in Photoshop
2.5k shares: Free Pack of Realistic Vintage Light Bulb Sign Letters
2.1k shares: How To Prepare Your Artwork for Special Print Effects
2.1k shares: 30 Stunning Packaging Designs for Liquor Bottles
2k shares: How To Create a Vintage Text Effect in Illustrator
1.4k shares: How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop
1.3k shares: Free Engraved Illustration Effect Action for Photoshop
1.3k shares: 10 Distressed Vector Halftone Patterns for Illustrator
1.1k shares: Inspiration Showcase of Double Exposure Photography
1k shares: A History of Typeface Styles & Type Classification
951 shares: 30 Illustrated Travel Posters for Fantasy Destinations
919 shares: 24 Free Authentic 1930s Vintage Postcard Textures
910 shares: How To Create a Realistic Chalk Lettering Effect
874 shares: The Best Free Alternatives to the Most Popular Fonts
834 shares: 33 Free PSDs to Mockup Your Packaging Designs
811 shares: 30 Vintage Designs for Custom Car & Motorcycle Brands
797 shares: How To Create Abstract Geometric Photo Collage Art
669 shares: 8 Free Glitter Effect Patterns & Styles for Photoshop
647 shares: How To Create a Colorful Vector Landscape Illustration
Thank you for your support!
I’d like to give a big thank you to everyone who took the time to read my posts throughout 2015. This website relies on a consistent flow of traffic, so I appreciate all your tweets, votes and shares on the various social media platforms. Every single one of them helps spread the word and helps recruit new readers! I hope you enjoy the content I have lined up for 2016, but until then have a great break over the holidays and I’ll catch you in the new year.
Thanks for another great year with you! I always look forward to every newsletter from you that comes to my inbox. You are one of the few people on the internet that really knows his stuff without ever bragging about it. Looking forward to 2016. And 2017. And 2018. And 2019. And…
Thanks so much Josiah! I really appreciate the support. I hope you enjoy all the content I have lined up for the upcoming years :-)
I like 0k shares. Especially nice while the vintage look is increasingly trending these days :)
Thank you very much!
Awesome share! Thanks Chris!
Gracias Again Chris…
I really enjoy Spoon Graphics, from the great tuts to the fabulous freebies. All the best to you and yours this Christmas season and Happy New Year too!
Thank you Wendy! I hope you have a great Christmas break too
Thanks for everything, is good to see this every year, i´ve been following you since the start !!
Best wishes !!!
Thank you so much.
An impressive and interesting information and really this kind of stuff like this, thanks for sharing bunches of information or getting more knowledge information from this post.
Thanks chris for the great list posts.
Great post specially the “How To Cut Anything Out in Photoshop”, i have only used a couple of ways of cutting out images before. Nice Video.
Gracias Chris, por hacer magia y mostrarla
thank you so much! happy new year
Hey Chris. I’ve only recently discovered your site/blog, but I can see from this list alone you’re doing some great stuff (so many amazing free resources out there)! All the best for 2016, and I look forward to continuing reading your blogs and learning from them.