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Home Security Has a Privacy Problem. Mitipi Offers A Proven Fix
The $93 billion smart home security market has boomed, but it’s built on a dangerous trade-off: surveillance in exchange for safety. Between smart TVs spying on conversations, doorbell cameras streaming footage to the cloud and anything in between, home security is starting to feel more invasive than protective. Dr. Patrick Cotting, CEO of Mitipi AG and creator of KEVIN®,...
Finaloop Wins Rising Star Award for Disrupting Ecommerce Accounting
Finaloop, a real-time accounting platform and service purpose-built for ecommerce brands, has been named a Rising Star by FinancesOnline, a leading B2B software review platform. We at Website Planet know very well how much work and thought goes into testing and reviewing tools, so we wanted to learn more about how Finaloop is growing its reputation as a category-defining...
Portfolio Website Builders Aren’t Made for Artists. Dunked Is
As of 2025, 80% of clients discover creatives online, yet over half say they’ve lost projects due to outdated or hard-to-edit websites. This happens because traditional website builders force artists to choose between clunky templates or expensive dev work Orman Clark has broken that tradeoff by creating Dunked, a sitebuilder used by over 84,019 creative people that...
Marketers, Forget FOMO. It’s Time for POSTMO
Most marketing teams are still stuck in old FOMO mode: pushing events and content that expire the moment they go live. But audiences want content on-demand in 2025, so that approach doesn't work anymore. In this exclusive interview with Website Planet, Kate Bradley Chernis, founder and CEO of Lately.ai, explains why not just FOMO but the entire “promo” idea is dying, and...
Product Analytics Should Live Inside Your Stack, Not Outside. Countly Fixes It
Most analytics tools weren’t designed to be part of your product but to monitor it from the outside. But in a world where AI, personalization, and automation depend on real-time product-level data, that’s no longer good enough. In this exclusive interview with Website Planet, Onur Alp Soner, CEO of Countly, explains how disconnected analytics is holding teams back, and...
The Real Reason Websites Crash During DDoS Attacks (And How to Stop It)
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks used to be the work of state actors or highly skilled hackers. Today, you can buy a DDoS attack even with zero technical knowledge. Platforms called booters or stressers let anyone rent a botnet and launch a large-scale DDoD attack for as little as $5 an hour. You just choose a target, click “go,” and watch their connection...
Emerging Market Startups Lose 50% Revenue From Global Payments. Dodo Fixes That
Startups in India, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe are struggling because of extremely low payment success rates, sometimes below 60%. And they can’t even offer some of the most in-demand local payment methods like Klarna or Apple Pay due to regulatory blockades. In this exclusive interview with Website Planet, Rishabh Goel, CEO of Dodo Payments, explains why emerging...
🔥 The 10 Most Hated Rebrands of All Time (20k Survey Responses)
They say hindsight is 20/20, and in branding this is painfully true. Especially when you try to rebrand. The last eye-opening study on this came to me from AtomRadar, which revealed that even multi-billion dollars companies fail at rebranding. After reading their surprising findings (more on that later), I decided to ask 20,000 readers at Website Planet what are the...
Quality vs. Cost Tradeoff In Tech Education Is a Lie. SIIT Is The Proof.
When education is affordable, people assume it can’t be effective. Leke Oyetoke, founder of Scholars International Institute of Technology (SIIT), is proving them wrong. In this deep dive by Website Planet, we look at how SIIT delivers flexible, self-paced, accredited tech education to over 90,000 learners (many of them career switchers or remote workers), and how this...
11 Digital Marketing Trends To Watch in 2023 According to Experts
The marketing world moves at the speed of light, and industry leaders need to embrace change if they want to stay relevant. But keeping up to date with the latest online marketing trends isn’t easy, with new technologies popping up like mushrooms and consumers changing their demands faster than a chameleon changes its colors. While no one has a crystal ball, marketers do...
SEO Trends: What’s Changed (and What Hasn’t) According to 500 Experts
Website Planet asked 500 SEO experts this exact question for you. Here are the 5 standout answers. E-E-A-T signals are now a crucial ranking factor Google's assessment of content quality has changed significantly since the transition from E-A-T to E-E-A-T, particularly with regard to content produced by artificial intelligence and more emphasis on trust. When...
Tips To Protect eCommerce Revenue by ClearSale Senior Director of Risk and Customer Success Bruno Farinelli
In this interview series, Website Planet is talking to executives from the best online businesses, who share their stories and unique tips to create a successful online business like they did. This time, I had the pleasure of talking to ClearSale’s Senior Director of Risk and Customer Success, Bruno Farinelli. Graduated in statistics at one of the best universities in...
Increase your Email Marketing Conversions with Mailmodo
Sure, Marketing has evolved a lot in the last decades, but some things are still relevant now as they were back in the days, namely the importance of user experience and the power of email marketing. In this interview we asked Aquibur Rahman how his platform, Mailmodo, manages to reinvent email marketing and boost the ROI of its users' campaigns. Please describe Mailmodo’s...
Lrnkey: the Online Tutoring Platform REALLY for Everyone
What motivated you to start Lrnkey? I moved to Fort McMurray, Canada with my wife and children from Armenia in 2012. As I was looking for a French tutor for my children, I realized our geographic limitations were greater than I imagined. The nearest tutor to our house was unaffordable and at least 30 miles away. After a bit of research, I found out from a friend that there...