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Bad news for my marketing budget

(deadpan, optional VO) Bad news for my marketing budget.

Out of every 1,000 Google searches, only 276 still send a click to a real website.

Two years ago it was 374.

That is a quarter of the open web's traffic, quietly defunded, in 24 months.

People think this is an SEO problem. Rankings, keywords, algorithms. It is not. It is a distribution problem.

The search bar used to send people somewhere. Now it answers and keeps them. The click was the handoff, and the handoff is being deleted.

If your go-to-market depends on Google passing you a human, you are building on land that is being repossessed.

Stop optimising for the click. Start being the name the answer repeats.

What are you building that does not need a click you no longer control?

The move. The 'paying more to reach fewer humans' truth in one frame, engineered for shares and comments.

digital is now 66% of media spend and climbing (Gartner) while only 276 of every 1,000 searches still send a click, down from 374 in 2024 (SparkToro)


One of the things Alex keeps saying about go-to-market distribution. See the rest →

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