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In this episode of Insights Unlocked, Rand Fishkin, co-founder of SparkToro and marketing industry icon, joins hosts Mike McDowell and Nathan Isaacs to unpack one of the most disruptive shifts in digital marketing today: the death of attribution.

Rand explains how platforms like Google, Facebook, and Reddit are cutting off referral data and turning into "walled gardens," effectively ending marketers' ability to track where traffic and conversions truly originate. This change calls for a radical new playbook—one that trades attribution modeling for brand lift, and prioritizes native content that meets audiences where they are.

What you'll learn in this episode:

  • Why attribution modeling no longer works—and what to focus on instead

  • The rise of zero-click marketing and how to succeed with it

  • How brands can build influence in a closed-platform world

  • The role of audience intelligence tools like SparkToro in top-of-funnel strategy

  • Why empathy and behavior observation are more powerful than ever for product and marketing decisions

  • How customer insights led to SparkToro’s recent product relaunch—and a major growth rebound

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