New Research: So Far, AI is Not Disrupting Search or Making a Dent in Google
The good folks at Sonata Insights recently analyzed Datos‘ clickstream panel to uncover consumer search behavior insights in the “age of AI”. If you’re…
When Attribution Is a Fool’s Errand, Zero-Click Marketing Is the Way
Zero Click Marketing is now a book! You can preorder it today, and you’ll get it in the fall. “Zero-Click Marketing sounds good and…
Attribution is Dying. Clicks are Dying. Marketing is Going Back to the 20th Century.
Welcome to another edition of 5-Minute Whiteboards. And folks, we’ve got a doozy of a topic. Yes, I’m being intentionally provocative. But it’s because…
The Smarter-Not-Harder Guide to Content Marketing in 2024
Classic content marketing is dead. I don’t say that lightly. Most digital marketing techniques don’t truly die, but the old way of doing content…
NEW: Ranking Pages Shows the Content Your Audience is Most Likely to Find in Search Results
Great news—the last of our three, search-focused features in SparkToro V2 has finally launched. It’s called Ranking Pages and you can now find it…
A Guide to Hosting Your Next Work Retreat
There’s something magical about the third location. It’s why writers head off to that cabin in the woods. Heck, maybe it’s why you find…
2024 Zero-Click Search Study: For every 1,000 EU Google Searches, only 374 clicks go to the Open Web. In the US, it’s 360.
Over the past decade, I’ve done several reports with multiple clickstream panels analyzing Google search behavior at scale. The last such analysis was in…
A One-Size-Fits-All Social Media Strategy
I grew my following on Twitter (now X) 700 to 100,000 followers in less than two years. I did this with an 80/20 focus:…
NEW: SERP Features are now in SparkToro V2 to help you see what types of results Google shows your audience
As I promised last week, when we launched Search Modifiers in V2, SparkToro has a whole bunch of new product updates to release. The…
SparkTogether Comes to Seattle October 8; Tickets are Already 60% Sold Out
It’s Official. On Tuesday, October 8, 2024, SparkTogether will be live, in person, in Seattle, WA for the first time. And we’ve already sold…