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Oct 21, 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. Wikipedia Traffic Down As AI Answers Rise
   (The internet’s biggest brain just met its smarter clone.)

2. Better Artificial Intelligence Stock: Nebius Group vs. CoreWeave
   (Whoever owns the GPUs owns the future.)

3. D2C Marketing: The Complete Guide
   (Forget middlemen the new playbook is direct, data-driven, and dangerously personal.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the marketer break up with the calendar?
Too many dates, not enough engagement. 💔

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Review Of AEO/GEO Tactics Leads To A Surprising SEO Insight

  Examination of answer engine optimization shows that practices for optimizing AI answer visibility are fundamentally traditional SEO, emphasizing the importance of chunked content, semantic clarity, and Q&A confirming that SEO best practices remain key in the AI-driven search era.

• What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day.

  That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it probably feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.

• 17 Data Reports That Every SEO Should Be Tracking in 2026

  A roundup of essential data and audience/market research reports that digital/growth marketers should use for strategic planning: including financials, platform reports, usage analytics, and trust studies helping marketers ground major decisions in authoritative trend data.

• Find Hub app hits 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store
  The Android app just crossed the 1,000,000,000+ downloads milestone, with com.google.android.apps.adm first released on December 11, 2013. The app debuted as “Android Device Manager” before becoming “Find My Device” in 2017. In July of 2024, it hit 500 million downloads.

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People

• Nestlé CEO: We must become ‘the best marketers in the industry’ to drive growth
  Nestlé’s new CEO has said the company must develop “the best marketers in the industry” to drive stronger performance across the business and meet its goal of driving sustained growth.

Webinar Announcement:
Prepare Yourself!

Turn product chaos into a repeatable system for growth.⚡️

In our next webinar with Theo Moulos, Chief Strategy Officer Growthhackers.com You’ll discover how to treat product management like a growth hacker.
You’ll learn how to validate ideas fast, prove traction before you overbuild, and create products that scale without burning cash.

🚀 LIVE WEBINAR
📅 22 OCTOBER 2025
🕛 9AM PT - 12PM ET - 5PM GMT

This event is for the builders, dreamers, and doers 
who know there’s a better way.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source

  The FTC has removed several Lina Khan-era blog posts about AI risks and open source. This move aligns with a broader Trump administration push for deregulation and a pro-growth, less safety-focused AI agenda favoring open source and fast competition, shifting government tone on digital/AI policy.

• What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains
  AI poisoning refers to the process of teaching an AI model wrong lessons on purpose. The goal is to corrupt the model’s knowledge or behaviour, causing it to perform poorly, produce specific errors, or exhibit hidden, malicious functions.

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