Category: Product

Data Product SparkToro

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…
Data Product SparkToro

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…
5-Minute Whiteboards Data Product SparkToro Tactics

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…
5-Minute Whiteboards Marketing Product Tactics

Want better marketing output from your AI Tools? Give it real data about your customers.

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
An overwhelming number of marketers are using AI tools to bolster their campaigns, their tactical output, and even their strategic ideas. I don’t actually recommend all of those (AI can seriously mislead you on strategy, and using it to write anything you’re going to publish directly is a recipe for unsubscribes), but there are some clever, high-quality marketing use-cases out…
Data Product SparkToro

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,…
Data Product SparkToro

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…
Content Marketing Product SparkToro

NEW: Topics, Interests, and Content Ideas Now Live in SparkToro V2

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Starting today, SparkToro V2 has an entirely new capability—The Topics Section—that adds massive value for content strategy, content creation, and/or audience research applications. In fact, this new data is what our customers told us (in a September survey) was the most valuable missing piece in the product: Let me show you what it can do, and why I’m so excited…

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