Plate Lunch Collective
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
  • Notes & Dispatches
  • Contact
  • AI Traffic Report
  • AI Browser Report
Plate Lunch Collective

NOTES / DISPATCHES

This is where we document what most brands miss. Real-world strategy. Sharp observations. No fluff, no funnels—just practical notes from the frontlines of consumer behavior, culture, and communication.

NOTES / DISPATCHES
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 10/21/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
27 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

Farm-to-Forgotten: When Your Web Marketing Catches Vibe But Misses Everything Else

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, but your customers are scrolling past looking for the hundred words
27 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

Why SEO, Social Media, and AI Search Are Now Business Infrastructure (Not Marketing Tactics)

What business owners need to know about discoverability in 2025 There was a time when search engine optimization meant keywords.
23 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

How Many AI Agents Will Be Last-Minute Shopping This Holiday Season?

I grew up in the Santa Maria Valley, long before it became famous for BBQ tri-tip and wineries. Both had
22 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

Instagram Cracked the Spam Problem. Here's What It Means for AI Search

Last April, Mark Zuckerberg testified under oath during the FTC's antitrust trial against Meta. Kyle Chayka, writing in
21 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 10/14/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
20 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America Week 42

10/20/2025 We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
20 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

SEO: No Digital Divide When AI Mediates Search

If you reached this post outside of a social share, you probably typed four keywords or less into a search
20 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America Week 41

10/13/2025 We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
19 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

Social Proof in 2025: What Actually Works

Trust became a metric somewhere along the way. Engagement rates. Conversion velocity. Funnel optimization. As if people are water. 42%
14 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 10/07/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
13 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America Week 40

10/06/2025 We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
12 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AEO/GEO Tools Analysis: 24 Platforms Compared Beyond Marketing Materials - Because You've Been Searching for Them

Updated: 10/12/2025 🚨October 12, 2025 Update: Expanded from 10 to 24 AEO platforms with detailed research on funding
12 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

Why 98% of Your Interested Customers Never Buy: Fixing Creator Conversion Funnels

You see a post from a creator you follow, someone whose judgment you trust about coffee makers or running shoes
10 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

The Impossible Math of Authentic Trust: A Business Owner's Guide to the Creator Economy

You open Instagram and there's someone, maybe 47,000 followers, maybe 180,000, holding a water bottle with
09 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

The Intimacy of Intent: What Voice Search Reveals About Who We Really Are

There's a moment, usually late at night, when you're alone with your phone or standing in
08 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 09/30/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
06 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America

09/29/2025 We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
05 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ October

BrandLight vs Evertune: AEO Platform Comparison

October 2025 Update 🚨BREAKING: Major Funding Developments Transform AEO Platform Landscape The Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) market experienced a seismic
01 Oct
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 09/23/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
30 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America

09/22/2025 We believe in optimizing for the retrieval layer. But we got curious about who's actually
28 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 09/16/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
22 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America 09/15/2025

VIEW REPORT🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report
21 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Marketing Your Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Clinic in a Boom Market

Signs in the Strip Mall There are new signs everywhere. In strip malls. In office parks that used to house
19 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Clicks, Carts, and Bookings: Where Travel Marketing ROI Falls Apart

A data-first walkthrough of where travel brands actually make money online, and where the spend slips out to sea. Morning
18 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Social Media Forecast: Fall 2025

This summer a lot of people were trying to predict things. More important things. Things that make summers everywhere special.
17 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

How to Make Your Business Internet Famous in Hawaiʻi

Not a viral dance video your employees did. Internet Famous now means every AI mentions your business when people ask
16 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Browser Market Intelligence - 09/09/2025

🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report here. Why
15 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

AI Referral Traffic Intelligence in North America 09/08/2025

VIEW REPORT🤔This is an archive of a past report. You can find the most current AI Referral Traffic Report
14 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Is Your Hawaii Business Ignoring the Most Important Search Update in 20 Years?

Search engines have never been “must-have” gadgets. Nobody lines up for the new Google update the way they do for
12 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Speaking AI’s Language: Why Hawaii Businesses Need to Understand Semantic Triples

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents in a rural farming town. People
11 Sep
2025 NOTES / DISPATCHES
✦ September

Hawai‘i Franchise Marketing Strategy: Why Corporate Templates Miss the Mark

Franchise Marketing in Hawaii: What It Looks Like on the Ground Remember when every real estate listing bragged about its
10 Sep
Explore by Topics
  • Sign up
Plate Lunch Collective © 2025. Published with Ghost & Kyoto