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Sept 11, 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 AI Max for Search Goes Global In Beta
   (Search isn’t dying it’s evolving. Google’s bet is clear: AI on top of intent will define the next decade of discovery.)

2. Ranking in Google doesn’t guarantee visibility in ChatGPT: Study
   (SEO is no longer single-player. Winning in Google ≠ winning in AI.)

The Growth joke of the day

Our funnel is optimized.
Too bad our product isn’t. 😂

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• LinkedIn Adds Post Send and Save Data

  LinkedIn introduces new analytics for content insights — “Saves” and “Sends” — to help marketers better understand how users interact with posts. It aims to inform content strategies and improve distribution techniques for greater organic reach inside the platform’s 1.2 billion member base.

• Bluesky Will Comply with Age-Verification Laws in SD and WY After Exiting Mississippi

  Bluesky modifies its compliance strategy by using Kids Web Services (KWS) for age verification instead of exiting more markets. The move helps maintain growth in smaller markets while managing regulatory hurdles smartly.

• What Is User-Generated Content? How to Get and Use It

  A guide on using User-Generated Content (UGC) for growth marketing offering tips, real-world case studies, value in SEO/AI visibility, and specific methods to gather and apply UGC for increased brand reach, conversion, and authenticity.

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People

• “Academically disingenuous”: Cohere co-founder calls out Sam Altman for AGI hype

  Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst says throwing more computing power at large-language models (LLMs) won’t necessarily get the world any closer to so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI).

3-Minute News Bulletin with
Growth Hackers

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Overload Myths Debunked as Tech Giants Reshape
Digital Marketing and Devices.

🚀 This Week in Growth: Smarter AI, Sharper ROI & Bold Moves in Tech

In today’s GrowthRocks News Bulletin, we’re cutting through the noise of AI hype. Forget mass-publishing 30 AI articles a day the new playbook is about quality, strategy, and trust at scale. GrowthRocks also drops a must-read ROI guide for CMOs, helping you finally nail attribution across SEO, paid, and social.

Apple shakes up the creator economy with the iPhone 17 Pro a vlogging powerhouse and teases the future of smartphones with the ultra-light iPhone 17 Air. But AI isn’t without risk: new research shows ChatGPT breaks links 3x more than Google, while Anthropic faces a record-breaking $1.5B copyright settlement.

On the social side, TikTok doubles down on commerce with new fulfillment options, while Snapchat bets its future on AR.
The landscape is shifting fast are you keeping up?

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Google Ads Rolls Out New Creative & Omnichannel Tools

  Google launched new AI-powered creative and omnichannel tools for Ads and YouTube. Updates include generative AI upgrades to Product Studio and Asset Studio, optimization for in-store sales, loyalty features, and short-burst campaign budget planning from 3–90 days.

• Google Uses Infinite 301 Redirect Loops For Missing Documentation

  Google’s unusual use of 301 redirects for missing structured data documentation results in infinite redirects. Although technically compliant, this raises UX and SEO implications, showing how AI-generated or automated decision systems can go wrong or require human oversight in content and search infrastructure.

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