Audience research for the 2020s: SparkToro review
SparkToro is an audience research tool for the era of creators, influencers and podcasts. Read the Content Technologist review.

Deborah Carver is the publisher of The Content Technologist. She is an independent consultant on all things digital publishing, specializing in large content-driven websites.
SparkToro is an audience research tool for the era of creators, influencers and podcasts. Read the Content Technologist review.
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“I’m giving the audience what they want,” says every media executive I’ve ever met or seen speak, in one way or another. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, our news habits shifted.
Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, web traffic plunged. This post summarizes traffic trends at the beginning of the first lockdown.