Tom Critchlow
EVP Audience Growth, Raptive; Founder, The SEO MBA, Raptive / The SEO MBA · Brooklyn, NY, USA
The skepticPublisher-side data on the death of the link economy and the rise of the recommendation web.
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Tom sits inside Raptive — 226M monthly unique users across 6,300+ sites — which gives him first-party publisher data most people in this industry are guessing at. His 'recommendation web' thesis is one of the most structurally important frames for understanding what replaces links.
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