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April 09, 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.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. YouTube tests 90-second unskippable ads on CTV
   (Attention is now mandatory)

2. TikTok launches updated integration for Wix users
   (TikTok turning small businesses into storefronts.)

3. Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
   (Less distraction, more listening)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did YouTube test 90-second unskippable ads?
Because the skip button needed a break.

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovations Reshape Cybersecurity, Search, and Tech Industry Trends

This week’s News Bulletin highlights how AI is reshaping cybersecurity, search, and digital visibility at scale.

From Anthropic pushing AI into proactive cyber defense to Google and Meta advancing AI-powered user experiences, the ecosystem is becoming smarter, faster, and more integrated. At the same time, data shows AI platforms are now major traffic drivers, forcing marketers to balance AI visibility with traditional SEO.

The takeaway: AI is not just a tool or a channel. It’s becoming the gatekeeper of discovery, trust, and growth.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Breaking Content & SEO Silos To Build Entity Authority in AI Search

  Explore the significance of AI search in contemporary marketing. Understand how to bridge the divide between content and SEO teams to achieve success.

• OpenAI, Meta, ByteDance Lead AI Bot Traffic In Publishing

  Akamai analyzed AI bot activity by examining application-layer traffic from its bot management tools Commerce drew the most AI bot traffic at 48%. Media, which includes publishing, video, social media, and broadcasting, came second at 13%.

• Most messaging problems start with the wrong audience
  To effectively transform disorder into clarity, it is essential to manage your message by identifying your primary audience and ensuring that your content, user experience, and calls to action are in alignment.

• Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline

  Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others.

• The customer journey now centers on exposure, recall and return
  Clicks still matter, but they don’t capture the whole picture. If you continue to rely on them as your primary signal of success, you’ll miss much of what’s actually shaping user behavior.

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People

• Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician.

We are heading to Running Remote in Austin 🚀

The world’s #1 Conference for Flexible Work is taking over Austin, and the GrowthHackers community is moving in.

If you aren't in the room where the world’s top minds from HubSpot, Zapier, and Dropbox are rewriting the growth playbook, you’re already behind.

This isn't just about "working from home" it's about it’s about the rise of the Autonomous Professional. We’re exploring how the bridge between
AI and distributed teams is creating a massive competitive gap that traditional companies simply can't close.

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• The Exclusive GrowthHackers Meetup: Beyond the main stages, join GrowthHacker's founders

• Theo Moulos & Effie Bersoux for a private GrowthHackers meetup. This is where the real networking happens.

Elite Intel: Learn the exact frameworks the world's most successful remote-first founders are using to scale in 2026.

🛑 Access is Limited

This offer is not public. Once these community-allocated slots are gone, the price jumps back up.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions
  Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company.

• Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’
  of its AI
  Meta released an AI model on Wednesday called Muse Spark, which marks its “first step” toward an “overhaul of [its] AI efforts.”

Leadership lessons from a record year of purpose-led growth

After 37 years in business, 2025 was a record-breaking year for Intrepid Travel. Revenue grew nearly 30%, with the company on track to hit $1bn in bookings in 2026.

But behind the numbers, the year pushed the leadership team to rethink priorities and make some hard calls — including a major reset to its climate strategy.

How they navigated that, what changed, and what they learned is all in the newly released Integrated Annual Report.

Take a look inside Intrepid