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Deep dives into global search demand, CPC arbitrage, and geographic market intelligence powered by raw Google Ads data.

Census x Google Ads
April 23, 2026 13 min read

The 102 "richest" US ZIP codes hold just 0.7% of $150K+ households. Here's where the rest live.

We matched 2024 ACS Census income tables to 31,215 Google Ads postal targets, then split the country into 7 affluent archetype frames with volume-weighted CPC. The "richest" 102 ZIPs hold 208K of 29.6M $150K+ households — the $100–150K band quietly holds 53x more buying-power scale.

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Dmytro Verzhykovskyi
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Viral Data Maps
April 15, 2026

Pop vs Soda vs Coke: the real 2026 search map of America

We queried Google Ads for every US state with dialect-sensitive phrases like 'can of pop' and 'case of soda'. 43 states search pop, 6 search coke, only 2 search soda — and New York broke the dialect map entirely.

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Original Research
April 11, 2026

How 234 countries search for 'remote work' — and what the data says about the future of offices

We measured remote-work demand across 234 country targets, found 220 active markets, and captured 1,064,040 monthly searches via local-language winners versus just 153,670 via the English benchmark alone.

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Original Research
April 10, 2026

We checked 'coffee shop near me' across 1,000 US cities. Here's where demand outpaces supply.

We matched 1,000 US cities to Google Ads city geo targets, normalized coffee-shop search volume by population, and surfaced the metro and college-town markets where demand looks stronger than local competition.

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Original Research
April 7, 2026

One keyword, 50 languages: how the world searches for "solar panels"

We queried Google Ads data for every country in every language. The result: 452,700 monthly searches that are completely invisible to English-only SEO tools, and CPC arbitrage opportunities up to 55x cheaper than the US.

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Data Analysis
April 5, 2026

The $152 difference: Mapping Google Ads CPC across 75 US Metros

A click on "personal injury lawyer" costs $28.41 in Glendive, MT and $180.93 in Los Angeles. We mapped the full CPC landscape to show why state-level averages are destroying your ad budgets.

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