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Dec 22, 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.

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Quick Hits

1. Where are investors placing their bets next year?
   (Next year’s bets = this year’s pivots.)

2. As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern
   (Startups built for the future finding out the future is… negotiable.)

3. We Tested The Top 5 Free AI Detectors. Here Are The Results
   (AI judging AI — let them fight.)

The Growth joke of the day

Where's the best place to hide a body?
The second page of Google search results.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Google Files DMCA Suit Targeting SerpApi’s SERP Scraping

  Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale.

• The future of GTM starts with causal clarity

  Scott Brinker’s Martech for 2026 report offers a lucid map of the terrain GTM teams must now navigate: a marketplace no longer defined by sequential buyer journeys, increasingly shaped by agentic AI, destabilized by volatility and governed by nonlinear patterns of evaluation and decision-making.

• Robotaxi Industry Emerges, Signals Shifts in Autonomous Vehicle Business Models

  The robotaxi industry is seeing scale-up, with new autonomous vehicle-adjacent companies appearing potential for new trends in growth and digital marketing.

• Netflix is betting on podcasts to become the new daytime talk show

  When you tune in to a podcast, you’re probably not opening the Netflix app at least for now. 

  That might change, if Netflix gets its way. The streamer signed deals with iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports this week, in addition to a recent deal with Spotify, to gain exclusive video rights to select shows.

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People

• New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs RAISE Act to regulate AI safety
  Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the RAISE Act, positioning New York as the second U.S. state to enact major AI safety legislation.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level

  These options (as well as similar adjustments to ChatGPT’s use of headers and lists) now appear in the Personalization menu and can be set to More, Less, or Default.

• How CreativeOps keeps AI-driven content from stalling
  More AI output means more pressure on reviews and approvals. CreativeOps provides the structure teams need to keep quality and velocity aligned.

Shoppers are adding to cart for the holidays

Over the next year, Roku predicts that 100% of the streaming audience will see ads. For growth marketers in 2026, CTV will remain an important “safe space” as AI creates widespread disruption in the search and social channels. Plus, easier access to self-serve CTV ad buying tools and targeting options will lead to a surge in locally-targeted streaming campaigns.

Read our guide to find out why growth marketers should make sure CTV is part of their 2026 media mix.

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