Recent Research

Here’s what fresh SimilarWeb traffic data can tell us about each of 15 Tier 1 titles coveted by the coverage-hungry. Our subscriber-only Google Doc reveals who's on the way up and who's on the way down.

The following are whom we see as key devops/appdev reporters and influencers, updated July 2018. Emphasis here on open source.

Search is in, social is out. That’s one of many things we learned this week after analyzing June 2018 traffic data — provided by SimilarWeb — on 15 leading tech and business publications. We sought to show how each publication attracts and retains its audience, and more fundamentally, who’s hot and who’s not. 

Tech vendors pour countless hours and dollars into surveys and ask the comms people to publicize the findings. How do you coax busy, skeptical reporters to cover these things? As we did in 2015, we asked reporters to give one reason they'd cover vendor surveys and one reason they wouldn't. Here's what they said this time.

Yes, there's a list for that. Here's the 15 chatbot reporters you need to pitch when the time comes. Lots of tier 2. List current as of June 2018.