Changelog

Every rank movement and site change, dated. Rank moves when the product does. RSS

2026-11-08

November re-test and transparency release

All 28 categories re-scored. Published: methodology, author pages, per-tool reviews, alternatives and head-to-head pages, buying guides on every ranking, this changelog, stats, and machine-readable data (rankings.json, llms.txt). Analytics and search consoles went live.

2026-09-28

Moved to marketingtoolsranked.com

The site left its temporary host and now lives on its own domain.

2026-09-27

Benchmark redesign (v4)

New homepage: Marketing Index, score-vs-price chart, Creative Arena and the live leaderboard.

2026-08-29

20 new categories with author ratings

Email, ABM, influencer, affiliate, analytics, CRO, landing pages, social, listening, AI video, webinars, automation, CRM, SMS, referral, loyalty, reviews, digital PR, competitive intel, conversational. Each rated by a named reviewer. Ryze appears in none of them.

2026-08-29

GEO ranking movements

Ryze ↑2 to #1 (shipped the monitoring-to-content loop), Peec AI ↑1 to #3, Otterly.AI ↓2 to #4 (shallow low-tier prompt sets), Scrunch AI enters at #5.

2026-08-29

Cross-category movements

Icon ↑4 in AI ad creative (new video model), Microsoft Clarity ↑3 in CRO (free session replay matured), AirOps ↑5 in SEO content (August release), Jasper ↓3 in AI assistants (pricing up, output flat).

2026-08-28

Stackranked launches

First 8 rankings published: paid ads, Google Ads, Meta ads, SEO, GEO, Shopify SEO, ecommerce SEO, AI visibility.