Overview
- Live blogs track celebrations as they unfold worldwide, with fireworks, parties and resolution-making highlighted across major cities.
- Newsrooms publish large sets of categorized messages and images for family, friends, partners, colleagues and bosses, tailored for easy sharing.
- Platforms and formats feature prominently, with outlets offering WhatsApp statuses, Instagram captions, Facebook posts, GIFs and wallpapers.
- Quotes from well-known figures such as T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Brad Paisley and Oprah Winfrey are promoted for New Year captions.
- Local variations shape festivities, with reports of fresh snowfall in Pahalgam, a tourist surge in Jaisalmer, and Hong Kong planning no fireworks after a deadly November fire.