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Feb 27, 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.

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

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Quick Hits

1. Threads tests simplified DM connection in-stream
   (From scroll to DM in one tap = conversion energy.)

2. Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints
   (SEO hacks meet reality.)

3. Spotify is rolling out Audiobook Charts
   (Spotify turning listening habits into leaderboard culture)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the SEO specialist stop giving Google “hints”?
Because Google said, “Thanks for the suggestion,” and ignored it anyway.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Meta takes legal action against celeb-bait scammers
  Meta announced a new series of legal actions against celeb-bait scams, with the hope that these measures will act as a significant disincentive to stop scammers from duping users with fake endorsements.

• Why Consistency Is So Hard To Maintain
  Learn how to manage international PPC campaigns across multiple regions, agency partners, and markets while maintaining brand consistency and avoiding costly mistakes.

• Google introduces next iteration of AI image generation model
  Google has launched the next iteration of its Nano Banana artificial intelligence-powered visual generation model with Nano Banana 2, which incorporates various image generation tools into a single, more powerful platform.

• Read AI launches an email-based ‘digital twin’ to help you with schedules and answers
  Meeting notetaker Read AI on Thursday launched an AI-powered email-based assistant called Ada, saying it helps users manage their schedules, answer questions based on a company’s knowledge base, and reply to out-of-office emails.

• Anthropic’s Claude Bots Make Robots.txt Decisions More Granular
  Anthropic updated its crawler documentation to list separate Claude bots for training, search indexing, and user requests, with visibility tradeoffs when blocked.

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People

• Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI
  Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company."

Did you hear?
The GrowthHackers Podcast is live!🎙️

A Founder’s Journey in Microscope

In this episode, we sit down with Jack, the 22-year-old founder of ARK-STEM — the global community and marketplace built by STEM lovers, for STEM lovers.

ARK-STEM is a dedicated platform where makers, engineers, and innovators can share projects, collaborate, sell inventions, and preserve what they build in a way that’s deeper and more enduring than fleeting social posts or video snippets.

Jack opens up about his journey from a young tinkerer to launching a platform that bridges community, creativity, and commerce.

Are you ready?

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Creators express frustration with Instagram’s latest AI experiment
  Creators have raised concerns about Instagram’s latest artificial intelligence-powered shopping test, in which users are being prompted to buy items displayed within Instagram posts, with Meta’s system finding similar product matches to facilitate shopping in-stream.

• Cloudflare’s New Markdown for AI Bots: What You Need To Know

  Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation.

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