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Quick Hits

X Will Soon Indicate if a Profile is Using a VPN
(So now we just have to start beefing with people who don't have the VPN indicator.)
Meta releases a new tool to protect reels creators from having their work stolen
(Is this the plot twist or the ad?)
Cloudflare down for thousands of users
(Time to go outside, I guess.)

The Growth joke of the day

What do you call a landing page with a high bounce rate?
A takeoff page.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

Google Search Console Adds Custom Annotations To Reports
Google Search Console now lets you add custom annotations to performance charts, making it easier to track when changes or external events occurred.
Intuit signs $100M+ deal with OpenAI to bring its apps to ChatGPT
Intuit has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million with OpenAI, enabling its tax and financial apps to operate within ChatGPT and expanding the company's use of OpenAI's models across its products.
Snapchat Highlights the Importance of Multicultural Representation in Ads
Snapchat's report urges brands to diversify ad content to reflect growing multicultural audiences—by 2050, nearly half the US will be multicultural—highlighting creator partnerships and AR as growth drivers for ad engagement and authenticity.
TikTok's Making a Major Push on TikTok Shop These Holidays
TikTok offers up to $20k in merchant incentives to fuel TikTok Shop sales this holiday, emulating China's Douyin live shopping boom but facing unique challenges in Western e-commerce adoption and regulations.
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People

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