ChatGPT had 87% of the AI chatbot market in January 2025.
A year later: 65%.
22 points. In 12 months. The biggest AI market shift since ChatGPT launched.
API is the new UI
New use case for my Hermes agent -
created my own social listening API using API Direct
Now every morning my Hermes pings me on Discord with the best posts across the internet relevant to my projects
- LinkedIn
- X
- YouTube
- Reddit
Only covering these 4 channels so far..
Will add more with time..
Its pay per use so won't be expensive.. Hermes estimates <$20/m total cost..
69% of Google searches end without a click now.
Generic "helpful content" is being summarized in the SERP.
There are 17 content types that still survive. Here's the framework.
UGC communities, tools & calculators, expert roundups, local content with E-E-A-T.
All share one thing:
The content cannot be assembled from public sources and replicated in a snippet.
AI can summarize. It can't replace.
69% of Google searches end without a click now.
Generic "helpful content" is being summarized in the SERP.
There are 17 content types that still survive. Here's the framework.
The strongest categories:
Owned audience β AI can't intercept your inbox
Transactions β AI answers questions, can't complete checkout
Original research β AI cites primary sources. Be the source.
The bigger shift: stop tracking traffic.
HubSpot lost 80% of organic traffic in 2025.
And hit record revenue.
Their audience found them on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Traffic is a vanity metric now.
DuckDuckGo hit 145M+ daily searches in May 2026.
All-time record.
The acceleration started exactly when Google made AI Overviews the default.
Correlation isn't always causation. But this one's pretty clean.
Perplexity handles 780M queries/month.
And they just killed their ad program entirely.
Zero paid placements. Forever.
Organic citation is now the only way in.
Reddit gets 24% of Perplexity citations.
21% of Google AI Overviews.
And 99% of those citations point to authentic discussion threads.
Not brand pages.