Why Everyone Prompts AI Differently (Even When They Want the Same Thing)
Recently, I ran a tiny experiment. I asked eight mom friends — people very similar to me socioeconomically and with kids around the same…
AI/LLMs
NEW Research: AIs are highly inconsistent when recommending brands or products; marketers should take care when tracking AI visibility
Editor’s Note: Watch our free webinar discussing the findings here (no ads). The Problem: For the last few years, companies have been investing inordinate…
Starting today anyone can analyze any (describable) audience in SparkToro
Until now, if you wanted to research an audience with SparkToro, you needed to choose a particular website, a search keyword, or a URL…
The 5 Big Trends that Will Dominate Marketing in 2026
I find most end-of-year prediction and crystal ball-gazing listicles to be trash. They don’t prove their assertions, use anecdotes rather than data at scale…
Never Ask an AI Tool How It Came Up with That Answer
This post on LinkedIn by Britney Muller is, IMHO, the most important short piece on AI you’ll read this year. It’s so critical to…
NEW: AI Tool & Social Network Usage Graphs are in SparkToro
SparkToro’s data visualization just got a major upgrade, but rather than tell you about it, I’ll show you: BOOM. Rather than the previous visualization…
NEW in SparkToro: Take Action combines real audience data with LLM magic to give you actionable marketing takeaways
Let me lay out the biggest challenges folks tell us they have with SparkToro in 2025: The audience data y’all provide is interesting, but…
We’ve Learned More About How to Appear in AI Answers
Thanks to some recent experiments and research in the marketing world (and an unfortunate, manipulative attack by a Reddit mod), we’ve learned a lot…