NEW: AI Tool & Social Network Usage Graphs are in SparkToro
SparkToro’s data visualization just got a major upgrade, but rather than tell you about it, I’ll show you: BOOM. Rather than the previous visualization…
NEW in SparkToro: Take Action combines real audience data with LLM magic to give you actionable marketing takeaways
Let me lay out the biggest challenges folks tell us they have with SparkToro in 2025: And now, I’m going to show you how…
Stop Asking Your Guest Speakers to Do Your Marketing for You
I hate asking people for things. Call it years of ingrained people-pleasing if you want, but mostly, it comes from my not wanting to…
We’ve Learned More About How to Appear in AI Answers
Thanks to some recent experiments and research in the marketing world (and an unfortunate, manipulative attack by a Reddit mod), we’ve learned a lot…
Content as a Service (CaaS): The Framework That Aligns Marketing with the Business
Marketing often treats content like a vending machine. Sales needs a case study, so you fill in the template. Check the next row on…
Make Something People Want to Talk About
In my formative years as a tech entrepreneur, Paul Graham (cofounder of YCombinator), wrote a seminal essay entitled: Be Good. Most tech folks have…
The Best Damn Visitors’ Guide to Seattle 2025
Psst! There’s a marketing conference in Seattle in a few weeks. I’m sure you bought your ticket already, but if you haven’t, let’s fix…
New Research: 20% of Americans use AI tools 10X+/month, but growth is slowing and traditional search hasn’t dipped
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…
How to Find Hyper-Specific Audiences with SparkToro’s New AI Features
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…
The One Question I Ask to Know If an Agency Will Be Worth It
Every now and then a career “L” seeps its way into my subconscious, usually at about 11:05pm when I’m about to fall asleep. One…