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SimilarWeb

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12 articles accelerating

SimilarWeb has appeared in 12 articles since 2015-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q3 with 2 articles.

Articles
12
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
7
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-03-20
Politico

Sources: social network SafeChat, which SimilarWeb says had 900K visitors last month, is a rising MAGA and anti-CCP hub, has undisclosed ties to The Epoch Times

Politico : Tweets: @joncoopertweets , @politico , and @oneunderscore__ Tweets: Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets : As Trump supporters flock to alternative social media, many are turning to SafeChat, a p...

2019-08-18
VICE 1 related

Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180%

and that's before 8chan shut down @daithaigilbert https://www.vice.com/... via @vice David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : Far right social media is seen by many as a fringe business, but @getongab is sho...

2019-08-17
VICE

Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180%

Gab has experienced a huge growth spurt in the first half of 2019, a worrying sign of the spread of hateful ideologies and radicalization online. Tweets: @learmonth and @daithaigilbert See also Mediag...

2018-07-07
ZDNet 7 related

Chrome and Firefox pull an extension called Stylish that sold to SimilarWeb in 2017, had roughly 2M users, and was found collecting users' web usage histories

The ‘Stylish’ extension has been removed after collecting users web-usage histories for over a year.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 55 Techmeme articles mentioning SimilarWeb, dating back to December 2015. The biggest stories include Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by... and Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5;.... Frequently covered alongside Bluesky, Twitter, Elon Musk, Meta, and Android. Coverage has shifted toward competition, developer themes and away from consumer, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise +25pts; consumer -50pts
2025Q1enterprise -25pts; regulation +50pts
2025Q2developer +100pts; consumer -50pts; regulation -50pts

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