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Total Addressable Market (TAM) Size is Now in SparkToro Reports

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
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 customers that we’re thrilled to finally have in the app. In any SparkToro report, you’ll now see TAM at the top of your reports, alongside a methodology breakdown, e.g. Audience for the above report: Computational chemists…
Agencies Marketing Tactics

Audience Affinity vs. Traffic: Why High-Affinity Media Belongs in Your Earned Media Strategy

Kelsey LibertBy Kelsey Libert
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 default playbook was to pitch the publishing giants and let their syndication networks carry your story far and wide. But bigger doesn’t always mean better, and the highest‑traffic sites often reach everyone except the people…
Data Marketing Research SEO Zero Click

In 2026, Less than One Third of Google Searches Still Send a Click

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
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 elements that keep searchers in the results, and shifting user preferences, Google is becoming a walled garden. Their financial and stock performance suggests that these changes boosted both ad revenue and investor confidence, and thus, it’s…
Audience Research Briefs Marketing Tactics

How Do You Market to a Double-Sided Marketplace?

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
At last week’s SparkToro Office Hours, someone asked about how to incorporate audience research into a marketing strategy for a double-sided marketplace. That has lived in my head rent-free since. A double-sided marketplace, what’s that? That’s a marketplace that supports both vendors and end users. Think of TheKnot, which provides resources for people planning their own wedding, and for the…
Audience Research Briefs Marketing Tactics

Audience Research Brief: How We’d Market to Mid-Market RevOps Leaders

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
But seriously, how does audience research inform your marketing strategy? I often say audience research is the heart of it all. And in a sense, I don’t think most marketers would disagree. We use different words for it — customer insight, positioning, voice of customer, ICP development — but a lot of it comes down to the same questions: What…
Content Marketing Marketing Office Hours

Office Hours: B2B Storytelling: How to Make Your Brand Their Favorite

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
“What’s the best Disney movie of all time?” Before you answer — you’re already proving the point. In this episode of SparkToro Office Hours from a few years back, Jay Acunzo breaks down one of the most important (and most ignored) truths in B2B storytelling: people don’t choose what’s objectively best. They choose what feels like their favorite. A lot…
Marketing Office Hours Tactics

Office Hours: How to Write Influence-Driven Marketing Messaging

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
“Where we’re going, we don’t need… roads.” Slip on your self-lacing Nike Mags, and buckle up in the DeLorean. We’re going back to 2021 to that time I (Amanda) presented on writing influence-driven marketing messaging. A lot has changed since then. AI wasn’t yet swallowing every marketing conversation whole, “zero-click” was just starting to take off, and plenty of marketers…
Marketing

Why LinkedIn Might Have Two Algorithms — and Why Marketers Should Care

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
We marketers talk about the LinkedIn algorithm as though it’s a single behemoth. But a recent analysis from Christopher Penn suggests the platform may be running two separate systems that work together to determine what shows up in the feed. One system decides whether your post should even be considered for someone’s feed. The other decides where it ranks once…

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