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Dec 17, 2025

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.

Think of it as your growth-fueled espresso shot.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini
   (This is how side projects are born at 1am.)

2. IGTV Is Back, With an Instagram Reels TV App
   (Instagram said: what if Reels… but couch-compatible?)

3. Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Links
   (Organic reach walked so paid links could run)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the SEO expert get locked out of their own website?
Because they optimized everything… except the password reset page.

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The future doesn’t wait. Neither should you.

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What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• How to Grow Without Losing Your Mind

  Scaling sounds great on paper. More customers – more revenue!However, more often than not, things -eventually- start to break.But the truth is that scaling isn’t usually a talent problem- it’s an operational physics problem: you’re adding complexity faster than your team can absorb it.

  The good news? You can grow without losing your mind (or your best people).

• Google Explains Why Staggered Site Migrations Impact SEO Outcome

  Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question about how Google responds to staggered site moves where a site is partially moved from one domain to another. He said a standard site move is generally fine, but clarified his position when it came to partial site moves.

• Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better

  Meta announced on Tuesday an update to its AI glasses that will allow you to better hear people talking when you’re in a noisy environment. In addition, the glasses are getting another update that lets you use Spotify to play a song that matches what’s in your current view.

• X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark
  X (formerly Twitter) countersues a startup over the 'Twitter' trademark, explicitly reasserting rights in revised terms. Brand security and trust remain vital growth factors in social media.

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People

• Monzo board reportedly pushed out CEO Anil over IPO timing

  Monzo chief executive TS Anil was asked to step down by the fintech’s board amid concerns over international expansion and his post-IPO commitment, according to reporting from the Financial Times.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models

  Adobe Firefly expands to prompt-based video edits and adds models like FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra, letting users modify visual elements via text and collaborate more easily pushing AI-generated multimedia capabilities.

• Interactions API: A unified foundation for models and agents

  The Interactions API introduces a native interface specifically designed to handle complex context management when building agentic applications with interleaved messages, thoughts, tool calls and their state.

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