The Best Persona Tool On the Web Is Now Live
Starting today, SparkToro’s persona-generation tool is now live and available to all our business and agency-tier subscribers, and it really is the best product…
Marketing
Does Your Website Still Matter in the Zero-Click Era?
Scholars are divided, but we’re still believers. The website may be visited less, by fewer people, but it’s the only place to give your…
7 Reasons Every Marketing Team Should Monitor Brand Mentions
Wait a minute… are you telling me you’re only doing brand monitoring for reputation management?! What is this, 2004? It’s time for an upgrade,…
Creating and Promoting Were Never the Same Decision
I’ll admit I’m kind of a thinkboi (gender neutral). I’m often more interested in the philosophies behind marketing — how we pick our campaigns,…
New Research from Similarweb: How AI Brand Mentions Influence Direct Visits & Traditional Search Queries
If my brand shows up in AI answers, does that have real impact on my marketing? Do people search more for my brand? Do…
When Your Audience Isn’t Who You Think They Are
Picture the audience for commercial backup power, and you probably see an electrician on a ladder, hard hat and all. And if you were…
Total Addressable Market (TAM) Size is Now in SparkToro Reports
Casey’s back with a brand new invention. This time, it’s estimated TAM: Total Addressable Market Size, one of the most requested features from SparkToro…
Audience Affinity vs. Traffic: Why High-Affinity Media Belongs in Your Earned Media Strategy
If you’ve been building media lists by zeroing in on the sites with the biggest domain authority and traffic, you’re not alone. For years,…
The Click Is Now Optional. Here’s What Isn’t.
Hold onto your butts. Rand’s got new research and it’s a doozy. With Similarweb’s clickstream panel, Rand found that in the first four months…
In 2026, Less than One Third of Google Searches Still Send a Click
In the first four months of 2026, a whopping 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click. Thanks to AI features, instant answers, UI…