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title: "Buy Me a Coffee: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand"
description: "Buy Me a Coffee lets creators earn from memberships or tips. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/nz/brands/buy-me-a-coffee"
publisher: "Brandwave"
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# Buy Me a Coffee: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand

Buy Me a Coffee lets creators earn from memberships or tips. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Buy Me a Coffee
- **Market**: New Zealand
- **Measured month**: Aug 2026
- **Share of Search among creator membership and tipping platforms**: 4.2%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Creator membership and tipping platforms | 3 | 4.2% | 770 |

- [Creator membership and tipping platforms](/demand/nz/categories/nz-creator-membership-platforms)

## How has branded search demand for Buy Me a Coffee changed in New Zealand over the last 12 months?

- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Buy Me a Coffee in New Zealand rose from 400 to 770.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Buy Me a Coffee’s estimated Share of Search among creator membership and tipping platforms in New Zealand increased from 2.3% to 4.2%.

## How did search popularity change for New Zealand creator membership and tipping platforms in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Buy Me a Coffee gained estimated Share of Search among creator membership and tipping platforms in New Zealand, from 2.9% to 4.2%.
- In August 2026, Patreon lost estimated Share of Search among creator membership and tipping platforms in New Zealand, from 86.2% to 85.1%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Ko-fi in New Zealand rose 17.3% over 11 measured months, from 1.7K to 2K in August 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 400 | 2.3% | 3 |
| Nov 2025 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 490 | 2.7% | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 490 | 2.7% | 3 |
| Jan 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 600 | 2.8% | 3 |
| Feb 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 490 | 2.7% | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 600 | 3.3% | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 490 | 2.7% | 3 |
| May 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 490 | 2.6% | 3 |
| Jun 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 610 | 2.8% | 3 |
| Jul 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 530 | 2.9% | 3 |
| Aug 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | 770 | 4.2% | 3 |
| Sep 2026 | Creator membership and tipping platforms | — | — | — |

## How is Buy Me a Coffee measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Buy Me a Coffee’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “buy me a coffee”
- “buy me a coffee membership”
- “buy me a coffee near me”
- “buy me a coffee nz”
- “buymeacoffee”
- “buymeacoffee com”
- “buymeacoffee membership”

## Which creator membership and tipping platforms compete with Buy Me a Coffee?

- [Patreon](/demand/nz/brands/patreon): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-patreon
- [Ko-fi](/demand/nz/brands/ko-fi): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-ko-fi

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Buy Me a Coffee: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/nz/brands/buy-me-a-coffee

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