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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

• 🔎 Google’s Year in Search 2025

• 🎧 Spotify launches wrapped 2025, its interactive global and personalized roundup

• 📷 Stunning landscape images winners of "The International Landscape Photographer of the Year" photography award

• ⏭️ In brief

• 🤔 Express Quiz

• 💡Recommended by: Chus del Río 

🔎 Google’s Year in Search 2025

Google has just published its annual special "Year in Search 2025," which offers a ranking of the most searched topics throughout this year across various categories worldwide (Global) and by specific countries.

One of the main new features this year comes from the new artificial intelligence capabilities applied to Google Search, which allow users to formulate queries in a more conversational way.

There's also a trend toward understanding topics rather than just searching for specific answers. And practical questions about how to do something have increased by 25% compared to last year.

The special offers rankings for general trends (searches, news, people, and obituaries), entertainment, sports, lifestyle, and games, among other options.

Link: 

• Year in Search 2025

🎧 Spotify launches wrapped 2025, its interactive global and personalized roundup

Once again, Spotify has published its special year-end roundup, 2025 Spotify Wrapped, which covers both the general trends on this platform over the past 12 months and what has happened with each of its 700 million users thanks to the personalized edition of Wrapped available through the Spotify app.

At the top of this year's rankings are the following artists and tracks:

In 2025, and for the fourth time in Spotify's history, the number one artist is Bad Bunny, with 19.8 billion streams of his songs. His album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS has been the most listened to. Following him in the artist rankings are Taylor Swift (second, though first in the U.S.), The Weeknd (third), Drake (fourth), and Billie Eilish (fifth).

The most-streamed song this year on Spotify is "Die With A Smile," the collaboration between Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, with 1.7 billion streams. The second has been "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" by Billie Eilish.

As for podcasts, the leader for the sixth consecutive year has been The Joe Rogan Experience, followed by The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett and The Mel Robbins Podcast.

The personalized version of Wrapped offers information that's already classic to this interactive special, such as total listening minutes or the most-listened-to artists, genres, songs, and podcasts. But also new features, such as a comparison with other users by age, a music quiz, or a fan ranking of major artists. Additionally, this year marks the debut of Wrapped Party, which allows users to share their musical year live with their friends.

Links: 

• 2025 Spotify Wrapped

• The Top Artists, Songs, Albums, Podcasts, and Audiobooks of 2025 - Spotify

• 2025 Wrapped Is Here With More Layers, Stories, and Connection Than Ever Before – Spotify

• Personalized Wrapped experience

📷 Stunning landscape images winners of "The International Landscape Photographer of the Year" photography award

American photographer J. Fritz Rumpf is the winner of The International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2025 photography award.

This is his Instagram profile.

Second place went to Polish photographer Karol Nienartowicz. 

On Instagram

And in third place was American photographer Joyce Bealer.

The landscape photo of the year 2025 is this one by Austrian photographer Lukas Trixl:

The award received a total of 3,601 photographs this year. The top 101 appear in the book that the organizers publish each year.

The Atlantic magazine has presented a magnificent full-screen photo gallery with a selection of chosen images.

• Winners of the 2025 International Landscape Photographer of the Year – The Atlantic

A collection of winners and selected images from the competition’s “Top 101” group, chosen from more than 3,600 entries by professional and amateur photographers around the world. 

Link: 

• The International Landscape Photographer of the Year

⏭️ In brief

• GWI has published the report "Connecting the dots 2026: 5 marketing trends you might be missing," which offers the main trends in the marketing world anticipated for 2026 by this company's experts.

• An MIT study says that AI can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce: MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce. Here you can find MIT's Project Iceberg, which provides this data.

• Glassdoor has published its annual report on the main trends in the employment world: Glassdoor’s Worklife Trends 2026

• The selection of the best books of 2025 from the book industry magazine Publishers Weekly.

• The best books of 2025 according to The Conversation's experts: Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks

• And another list of books from 2025: the one from The Economist magazine.

• The Pew Research Center has published an interactive special on the new news consumption habits of young adults and what that means for the future of media: Young Adults and the Future of News

• Google has compiled on its blog, The Keyword, how its educational tools have been used this year by institutions around the world: How institutions worldwide used Google for Education tools in 2025

• Brandwatch has recently published two reports on the state of social media in 2026 and on major trends in the digital marketing world for 2026: 

  • The State of Social 2026

  • Digital Marketing Trends 2026

🤔 Express Quiz

The streaming company Netflix was founded in August 1997 to launch a DVD rental service through postal mail. Over the years, its model transformed to become a streaming giant and a major audiovisual production company with a presence in 190 countries.

In the previous edition of On the Net Today, we asked you about the number of articles published on Wikipedia in English. The correct answer was just over 7 million.

💡 Recommended by: Chus del Río 

• Resource: AI for Newsrooms

• Why? 

This tool helps me keep my radar constantly updated on what's happening in media outlets around the world regarding artificial intelligence. It compiles initiatives, resources, news, and even ethical guidelines and AI standards from around the world showing how media outlets worldwide are incorporating this technology into their newsrooms and processes.

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