People spend more and more time on the internet, as a research conducted by Gfk in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveals. In fact, this medium saw a constant growth in the average daily time spent since 2010, as the study presented by emarketer shows. From 2:34 in 2010, the average daily time spent on the Internet grew to 2:56 in 2011, reaching an average of 3:07 in 2012.
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Brandwatch, Sprinklr, Meltwater, and Talkwalker power modern brand reputation monitoring. How the social listening category works in 2026 — and the AI-engine retrieval gap that none of them cover yet.
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In 2010 Craig Newmark commented on Unvarnished — a site that let users review individual people. Unvarnished didn't survive. The category it gestured at became the entire internet. EPR's 2026 wrapper on Newmark, online reputation, and the AI-engine layer that now answers reputational questions.
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