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New Research: 20% of Americans use AI tools 10X+/month, but growth is slowing and traditional search hasn’t dipped

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
The media hype may be overblown, but the data doesn’t lie: over 20% of Americans are now heavy users of AI Tools (employing them 10X or more each month), and nearly 40% use one AI tools 1X+/month. Despite this massive growth, traditional search engines aren’t going anywhere: 95% of Americans continue to use them each month, and 86% are heavy…
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How to Find Hyper-Specific Audiences with SparkToro’s New AI Features

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
It’s time we pulled back the curtain on one of SparkToro’s newest superpowers: Conversational Queries (a.k.a. audience descriptions), powered by AI. Instead of analyzing specified-parameter audiences like “Wix.com visitors” or “people with architect in their bio,” you can now zero in on groups as broad or specific as you like — small law firms seeking to improve their websites or…
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SparkToro’s New Graph Visualizations Make Copy/Paste/Present Easy as Pie

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Starting today, there are customizable graph visuals in almost every section of SparkToro’s reports. Because why the heck should you have to be an Excel visualization expert on top of the 500 other things your boss/team/client expects of you? Friends, we’ve got your back. When you need to make the case for an investment in a particular social channel you…
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How to Use SparkToro + LLMs to Do Marketing Magic

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Most folks who follow me know I’m a bit of a late adopter and skeptic of AI. Yes, it can do some impressive things that takes humans a long, painful amount of time to replicate. But, they’re also stereotype machines whose reasoning and capabilities, especially in the creative and novel needs that marketing demands, isn’t replacing even 1% of jobs…
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We’ve Launched a Brand New SparkToro Today with 10 (yes TEN) New Features

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
It’s time for a new, screenshot-worthy look. It’s time to deliver those key features you’ve been asking us for. It’s time for better data, graphed over time. It’s time for an all-new version of SparkToro. Today, we’re releasing a massively upgraded, fully-overhauled version of our audience research platform. <Slaps roof of car> This baby’s got so much audience research juice,…
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New Research: Google Search Grew 20%+ in 2024; receives ~373X more searches than ChatGPT

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
For years, two questions have dominated both marketers’ interest and the media’s coverage of Google Search: Are AI Tools taking market share away from Google? Is Google search growing, flatlining, or declining? I’ve seen wild speculation that Google’s market share is down 5-10% since ChatGPT’s launch, and heard anecdotes across my feeds from people claiming that they never use Google…
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New Research: How Often Do Americans Search Google? Which Search Verticals Do They Use?

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Last quarter, we published an extraordinary analysis of hundreds of millions of Google searches alongside our clickstream panel partners at Datos (A Semrush Company). That analysis opened many marketers and creators’ eyes to the reality of how people use Google in 2024, i.e. navigational-heavy, and significantly weighted toward the top few thousand queries. This quarter, we’re back to examine several…
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Are your customers switching to AI tools (and how much)? SparkToro’s new Search & AI Tools feature has the answers

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
There is a lot of activity moving to LLMs and generative AI tools right now, and for marketers, founders, and creators, the questions are almost always the same: Are my customers moving from traditional methods of discovery to these platforms? If so, how much? Starting today, SparkToro has the answers. Using clickstream panels from our partners at Datos, we’re able…

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