Reddit’s first-quarter 2025 earnings report shows strong growth in traffic and user engagement, particularly among logged-out users. Although the announcement and shareholder letter did not mention search engines or the temporary decrease in traffic in February, the increase in logged-out traffic suggests year-over-year growth from external referrals from search engines and social media. The shareholder … Read more
The cost of using advanced AI has fallen sharply. Since late 2022, the price of using GPT-3.5-level AI models has dropped from $20.00 to just $0.07 per million tokens. According to Stanford HAI’s AI Index Report, that’s a 280-fold reduction in less than two years. This massive cost drop is changing the pricing of AI … Read more
Earlier this year, HubSpot went viral — and not exactly in a good way. A few companies posted data suggesting that we had lost 80% of our blog traffic. Overnight, the news was all over X and LinkedIn. As marketers ourselves, we know better than anyone that hot takes drive clicks. But, what actually happened … Read more
Before the 1960s, young people were seen as an undesirable marketing audience and mostly ignored. Everything changed with Baby Boomers. They were the largest and most influential generation in the history of modern consumerism, yet their social movements and corporate distrust confounded advertisers who had to completely rethink their playbooks. Sound familiar? Since then, marketers … Read more
The long-brewing conflict between Google and EU regulators has reached a new milestone. The European Commission has officially issued preliminary findings that Google has violated the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in two key areas that directly impact digital marketers and app developers. What’s Happening With Google Search? Despite Google’s algorithm tweaks over the past year, … Read more
There’s a lot you can do to boost your chances of success on social media — optimize your content for engagement, find your perfect posting times, master the art of thumb-stopping hooks… But even these smart tactics don’t guarantee success. Few things do when it comes to navigating social media algorithms and ever-changing audience behavior. … Read more
Google is starting to roll out an AI-based Q&A feature to Google Business Profiles (GBP) on Google Maps for mobile. This feature will very likely replace Google Q&A, which has silently gone missing on some listings. The “Ask Maps about this place” AI feature was first announced in late October 2024, along with a number … Read more
Human nature craves connection, so much so that we seek it almost everywhere we can find it – at social events, in our jobs, and now online in micro-communities. The desire to feel camaraderie and a sense of belonging is innate. In recent years, social media platforms have shifted from shouting into a void to … Read more
![AI in Graphic Design: The Pros, Cons and What it Means for Designers [+ Expert Insight]](https://nicheplrnewsletter.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Untitled-design-2024-10-15T175328.927.jpg "AI in Graphic Design: The Pros, Cons and What it")
Several months ago, I tested several AI logo generators and documented my experience. Then my friend Michael Randall, a graphic designer, read the post, and I‘ll just say he wasn’t thrilled about it. “[Expletive] logo generators? We’re doomed,” were his exact words. I ended that blog post by clarifying that businesses should use actual graphic … Read more
Google Flights and Google Hotels have dominated travel-related Google search terms in recent years, which has been seen as a threat by many travel operators. However, if approached properly, the growth of Google Travel represents an opportunity for those who adjust their strategy. SEO expert Lily Ray shared the Google Travel graph below on a … Read more
Google Chrome has officially ended support for the First Input Delay (FID) metric, marking a transition to prioritizing Interaction to Next Paint (INP). The announcement by Rick Viscomi, who oversees web performance developer relations for the Chrome team, confirms INP as the core metric for evaluating interaction responsiveness. Today’s the day: Chrome ends support for … Read more
Google announced that they are ending continuous scrolling in the search results (SERPs) as a way to speed up the serving of search results. Many in the search marketing community question that reason and raise questions about it. What’s really going on here? Continuous Scroll In Search Results Infinite scroll is a way of showing … Read more
In nearly 19 years in search marketing, I’ve seen search marketers get cranky about a lot of things. For a long time, the biggest pushback on something Google rolled out was the good old Enhanced Campaigns fiasco of 2013, when it essentially took away the ability to bid by device. (Google walked this back two … Read more
The European Commission has designated Google as a gatekeeper under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to increase competition in the tech industry. The legislation will come into effect in March 2024. Google is among several big tech firms like Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and ByteDance that must comply with the rules within … Read more
OpenAI announced expansion of availability of GPT-4 to all paying API users and the deprecation of older embeddings models. This change provides developers the ability to create even more powerful software and plugins than are available today. What GPT-4 API is and Why it Matters API stands for Application Programming Interface, a way of making … Read more
If you’re working in a marketing role, you can’t ignore the emerging field of artificial intelligence. It’s quickly gained traction, and industry leaders have begun projecting that rapid AI advancements could surpass human intelligence sooner than we think. But what does that mean? And what are the implications of that type of advancement? As a … Read more
Here we go again. If you work in social media, it’s nothing new to adapt and change your strategy based on the ever-changing algorithms and the rise and fall of social networks. (Who else was on Vine? 🙋🏻♀️) But, of course, we wish you didn’t have to. The latest wave for social media marketers and … Read more
Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News! Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot’s media team. Microsoft is keeping generative AI front and center in its search products. In January, the company extended its partnership with Open AI, the maker of ChatGPT with a multi-year investment believed to be … Read more
