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Dec 19, 2025

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your Weekly unfair advantage.

Once a week, 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. Meta Adds New Features to Edits, Including AI Segmentation of Objects
   (Editing apps learning faster than creators.)

2. Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training
   (AI creativity comes with receipts now.)

3. Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages
   (Organic reach really said ‘know your place.)

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

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

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the marketer stop posting links on Facebook?
Because Meta said, “That’ll be premium behavior.”

3-Minute News Bulletin
with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovations Reshape Marketing, Search, and E-Commerce

This week’s GrowthRocks News Bulletin zooms in on the systems shaping modern marketing and AI-driven growth. 🤖

From a sharp breakdown of the six pillars of competitive intelligence to OpenAI’s new GPT Image 1.5 and Google’s latest core update, every story points to one thing: structure beats tactics when the market moves fast.

We explore how AI search really indexes content, why Threads is doubling down on communities, how YouTube is redefining brand–creator partnerships, and what Cloudflare’s data reveals about the crawler wars behind the web.

Add in WooCommerce’s leap into agentic commerce with Stripe, and you get a clear picture of where marketing, platforms, and AI are heading next.

Smart reads. Strategic signals. Built for marketers who think in systems,
not headlines.

Latest Growth Hacking News

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).

• X Launches Standalone Chat App on Desktop

  X (formerly Twitter) launches a standalone desktop chat app as part of an "everything app" strategy, aiming to drive platform growth, payments, and user retention, with AI-powered encrypted messaging at its core.

• Five Ways To Boost Traffic To Informational Sites

  An actionable guide on increasing informational site traffic mixing evergreen and trending content, updating outdated material, and differentiating your site for sustained growth crucial for growth marketers and content strategists.

• 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.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from

  Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images that preserve the performance of the original footage.

• Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app
  Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini 3 Flash model, based on the Gemini 3 released last month, looking to steal OpenAI’s thunder. The company is also making this the default model in the Gemini app and AI mode in search.

• 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.

• WooCommerce Is Integrating Agentic AI Capabilities

  WooCommerce will support agentic shopping using Stripe and OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling AI assistants to discover, compare, and purchase products, transforming digital commerce for over 4 million stores.

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