# Most Popular Social Networks — 2003–2019 bar chart race

A single-canvas bar chart race that ranks social networks by monthly active users, quarter by quarter, from 2003 Q4 to 2019 Q3. Bars slide, swap places and grow while a large quarter label counts forward. A short owl outro closes it.

- Code: EX-0028
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Kinetic data film
- Brand: Data Is Beautiful
- Length: 149.8s · 9 beats · 3.6 beats/min · 0 hard cuts
- Industry: Social, Data and analytics, Consumer apps
- Style: Data viz, Light UI, Music-led, No voiceover, Flat 2D, Minimal, Technical
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOymOiQdNaE
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/most-popular-social-networks-2003-2019-bar-chart-race

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/most-popular-social-networks-2003-2019-bar-chart-race.