WhatsApp user statistics: How many people use WhatsApp?
Important WhatsApp user stats. Includes data on usage, downloads and more.
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Stripe revenue and growth statistics
Important stats about Stripe. Includes key statistics on country-by-country availability, valuation, investments and more.
Discord user and funding statistics: How many people use Discord?
Interesting Discord user stats. Includes data on users, funding, employees and more.
Reddit is the keyword research tool you’re probably not using
Use Semrush to mine Reddit's rankings for content gaps, unanswered questions, and opportunities to strengthen your search visibility.
Substack user and revenue statistics
Check out these interesting Substack user stats, including data on subscribers, creators, funding, and more.
How to evaluate Google Ads creative before testing it
Evaluate Google Ads creative with the MOCA framework before it enters testing, so you're experimenting with stronger ideas from the start.
Hidden gem publishers outperform major media on audience affinity: Study
Media lists still prioritize traffic and domain authority, even as AI visibility depends on trusted, context-rich brand mentions.
The citation core method to appearing in AI search results
Want your brand to appear in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode? Learn how to identify the sources AI trusts and earn mentions that influence AI-generated answers.
Google quietly gave 54 publishers control over their Discover profiles. Here’s what they did with it.
The first systematic analysis of Google's invitation-only enhanced publisher profiles on Discover, based on monitoring 46,926 publishers.
Utility news content: How to win beyond clicks in AI search
Clicks are declining, but utility content still builds visibility and trust. Here’s how to adapt your newsroom strategy for AI search.
How to earn brand mentions that drive LLM and SEO visibility
LLMs look beyond backlinks to context and co-occurrence. Here’s how brand mentions shape AI search rankings – and how to act on them.
The brand-to-links ratio revolution
Google and Bing now weigh brand mentions and citations alongside backlinks. Learn how to optimize your brand-to-links ratio for modern SEO visibility.
OpenAI hits pause on ChatGPT ads as CEO declares a ‘code red’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ordered an urgent ChatGPT quality overhaul and paused advertising plans to focus on strengthening the core product.
Google pulls EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Google drops its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft after a new EU probe into cloud licensing practices.
Adobe to acquire Semrush
Adobe will acquire Semrush for $1.9 billion, the companies announced today, with closing expected in the first half of 2026.
Google’s Liz Reid: The real search shift is behavioral, not AI
Liz Reid says AI isn’t driving the change in Google Search — users are. Younger audiences are shifting to video, forums, and creator content.
Google’s Liz Reid on AI Overviews: Less ad clicks, more searches
Google’s head of Search says AI Overviews don't reduce the need to buy, which is keeping ad revenue stable as searches keep growing.
Call it whatever you want – just don’t call it ‘Answer Engine’
Forget the abbreviation. Your job is still to earn presence and trust in conversational engine results, then make sure that presence pays.
Perplexity makes $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser
It's a bold move on Perplexity's part, but Google is unlikely to sell Chrome, so it’s more of a PR stunt than a likely deal.
Digital PR for SEO: Backlinks, authority, and rankings
Discover how digital PR boosts your SEO by earning high-quality backlinks, increasing brand visibility, and building authority.
7 ways to grow brand mentions, a key metric for AI Overviews visibility
To show up in AI search, you need to be mentioned – credibly, often, and in the right places. These tactics will help you get there.
Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl: A turning point for SEO and GEO
Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit.
How to optimize your 2025 content strategy for AI-powered SERPs and LLMs
The future of SEO is about mentions, authority, and AI relevance. Here’s how to secure brand visibility in AI-generated search results.
Google’s site reputation abuse policy is a band-aid for a bullet wound
Dive into the challenges of parasite SEO and why Google’s algorithmic shortcomings make this policy a temporary fix for a systemic issue.
How to do audience research for SEO
This streamlined process lets you uncover search behavior, map audience intent and find SEO opportunities even with limited resources.
Google Search demoting content that is starkly different from the main content of the site
A Google spokesperson told Glenn Gabe, "Our systems aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites."
Google Search resolves indexing bug that lasted several hours
The issue affected indexing in Google Search and impacted new content published across both large and small publishers.
LinkedIn expands video ads, AI tools to help B2B marketers
LinkedIn is giving marketers a way to promote in-stream video ads alongside content from publishers and announces new Accelerate features.
PayPal launching ad network fueled by user purchase data
PayPal plans to offer personalized promotions and advertising, targeting its approximately 400 million users.
Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
Sites like CNN, USA Today, LA Times and others are seeing their rented subdomains and subfolders dropping in rankings after they were hit by manual actions.
Google Chrome IP masking could radically impact search advertising
Google's plan for IP protection would give them a monopoly on location data and drive up costs for advertisers.
Brands unknowingly wasting ad dollars on Made for Advertising sites, claims report
An Adalytics study found that ads are being placed on MFA sites through programmatic and non-programmatic channels.
Reddit pilots new tools to help brands boost engagement
Businesses that sign up for the Reddit Pro trial will have access to AI-powered insights, enhanced performance analytics, and more.
Google Search is investigating reports of delayed indexing issues
Google said it is "working on identifying the root cause" that is affecting a "small number of sites."
Meta to launch Threads in the EU within weeks
The news comes just days after X's biggest advertisers boycotted the platform.
LinkedIn rolls out performance measurement and Document Ads enhancements
The upgrades have helped some marketers increase CTR and attributed conversions while lowering cost per action.
U.S. vs. Google antitrust trial: Everything you need to know
The landmark court case brought by the US Justice Department could spell huge changes for Google and the future of Search.
Google CEO details how Chrome helped grow Google Search
We also now know exactly how much Google paid to be the default search engine on multiple devices and browsers: $26.3 billion in 2021.
Google resolves indexing issue with new content after nearly 6 hours
Google confirmed the issue and said it delayed the indexing of newly published content between 1:30 pm and 7:20 p.m.
Meta to charge $14 a month for ad-free Instagram and Facebook subscriptions
The paid-for versions of the apps are reportedly being rolled out in Europe in response to the EU's Digital Services Act.