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Retention · Lead story

SaaStr wrote 214 free articles about Replit, and what earned them was one engineer nobody reassigned

SaaStr itemised 214 free articles, 5.9M impressions and $0 paid. The part that earned it was a headcount decision, not a campaign.

Sienna Mcpherson · 4 min read

Distribution

Google's Search profile bar drops to 10,000 followers, and yours may already exist unclaimed

Google cut the Search profile threshold to 10,000 followers and says it does nothing for ranking. The payoff is Discover.

Sienna Mcpherson · 4 min read Tools & Analytics

HubSpot now scores how complete your context is, and its 3.6x proof compares AI users with non-users

HubSpot's Unbound26 release scores your data completeness. Its headline 3.6x figure is measured against customers using no AI.

Sienna Mcpherson · 4 min read Distribution

Blocking AI training no longer costs you Googlebot, and it still won't keep you out of AI answers

Cloudflare split training from search crawling on September 15. The setting most marketers will reach for does not do what they think.

Sienna Mcpherson · 4 min read

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Positioning

Unsponsored. Scored out of 5.

4.6 /5

Pageviews.ai

A credible analytics stack without the GA4 tax: cookieless, unsampled, and an AI layer that saves real analyst time. Thin on session replay and integrations.

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News and reviews for the people who market software.

SaaStr wrote 214 free articles about Replit, and what earned them was one engineer nobody reassigned

Google's Search profile bar drops to 10,000 followers, and yours may already exist unclaimed

HubSpot now scores how complete your context is, and its 3.6x proof compares AI users with non-users

Blocking AI training no longer costs you Googlebot, and it still won't keep you out of AI answers

AI search is now the top media challenge, and buyers are answering it with brand spend

Google has started paying for grounding, and the panel shows earnings but not usage

One briefing, every Tuesday — get the next piece first

Pageviews.ai

News and reviews for the people who market software.

SaaStr wrote 214 free articles about Replit, and what earned them was one engineer nobody reassigned

Google's Search profile bar drops to 10,000 followers, and yours may already exist unclaimed

HubSpot now scores how complete your context is, and its 3.6x proof compares AI users with non-users

Blocking AI training no longer costs you Googlebot, and it still won't keep you out of AI answers

AI search is now the top media challenge, and buyers are answering it with brand spend

Google has started paying for grounding, and the panel shows earnings but not usage

One briefing, every Tuesday — get the next piece first

Pageviews.ai

One briefing, every Tuesday.