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April 15, 2026

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your daily unfair advantage.

Every morning, we cut through the noise to bring you sharp insights, fast news, and fresh sparks to light up your brain and fuel your hustle. From scrappy hacks to big tech moves, AI shifts to culture flips this is your intel to stay ahead, move fast, and break boring.

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Quick Hits

1. Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
   (AI loyalty is… flexible)

2. Google simplifies enhanced conversions in Ads
   (Better data = better decisions)

3. Reddit launches new public beta integration with HubSpot
   (From conversations to customer data)

The Growth joke of the day

Why are AI investors nervous right now?
Because in this space, today’s investment is tomorrow’s competition.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Google Chrome Skills Turn Gemini Prompts Into Reusable Workflows
  Google is rolling out Skills to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, letting users save prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across selected tabs.

• Shorter, Focused Content Wins In ChatGPT
  For years, SEOs have operated on a simple assumption: The more ground your content covers, the more likely it is to surface in AI-generated answers. In fact, every “best practice” in classic SEO content pushes you toward more: more subtopics, more sections, more words.

• How Google’s removal tools work for SEO and reputation management
  When a client calls about a damaging search result, you might typically default to one of two responses: “we can suppress it” or “there’s nothing we can do.” Both skip the middle ground where Google’s removal tools live.Google provides tools to remove or deindex content from search results. They’re underused, frequently misunderstood, and often conflated.

• Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce
  Snap is laying off roughly 16% of its global workforce, impacting around 1,000 full-time employees, according to a memo sent to staff from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Wednesday. The company cites advancements in AI for the cuts.

• Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
  The Firefly AI Assistant will be available in public beta in the coming weeks. The company didn’t specify if the AI assistant will be priced differently from Firefly’s credit-based subscription tiers.

• Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK
  As of this week, the new feature is officially live in the U.S. and the U.K., allowing users to purchase physical books through the Spotify app.
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People

• Lucid Motors names new CEO, lands more money from Uber and Saudis
  Lucid Motors has finally found a new CEO in long-time industrial executive, Silvio Napoli, marking the end of a more than year-long search following the sudden resignation of its former chief, Peter Rawlinson.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• AI rewards brand meaning and punishes everything else

  As AI reshapes discovery, brands built on transactions lose ground. Use this prompt to test and strengthen your brand’s visibility.

• AI is reshaping what entry-level marketing work looks like
  AI’s deep research tools can generate comprehensive audience assessments, map competitive landscapes and audit SEO content gaps that used to require days, if not weeks, of manual labor. Doing this requires taking on tasks that were once handled by entry-level employees

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