Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when he told a tech show that the platform was considering some form of ID verification to combat bots. Now Huffman has officially addressed the issues in a message to Reddit users posted right on the platform itself. Huffman says Reddit isn’t looking to identify its anonymity-loving user…
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! In “The science of how AI pays attention,” I analyzed 1.2 million ChatGPT responses to understand exactly how AI reads a page. This is Part 2. Where Part 1 told you where on a page AI looks, this one tells you which pages…
The first thing BTS ask for on Arirang, the group’s long-awaited fifth studio album, is simple: “Put your phone down.” It sounds almost cliché in an era of screen fatigue, but coming from BTS, it lands with a strange kind of dissonance. This is, after all, a group that didn’t just benefit from social media…
Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in order to deal with this problem, Reddit is considering turning to the latest go-to solution for the tech industry: ID verification. On the tech show TBPN, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman spoke about how AI has caused issues for the platform and discussed potential solutions.…
If you’ve spent any time consuming dating content lately, you’ve almost certainly encountered the vocabulary: high value, alpha, body count, Chad. Terms that, not long ago, were esoterically confined to misogynistic, racist incel (“involuntarily celibate”) forums and have now migrated wholesale into mainstream culture — repackaged as self-improvement content, dating advice, and meme language for…
It’s been an eventful start to the year for AI search, and AI is moving quickly, but there’s a lot of hype and panic. When really search is just doing what it has for the last 30 years, it’s constantly self-updating. At Search Engine Journal, as most other publishers have, we’ve experienced considerable drops from…
Managing PPC accounts is already time-consuming, especially when attention gets pulled toward tasks that don’t meaningfully impact performance. Over time, accounts accumulate extra keywords, inconsistent negatives, and small inefficiencies that make everyday management harder than it needs to be. Fortunately, Google Ads includes several built-in tools that help streamline these tasks. These seven shortcuts can…
Following the Australian government’s social media ban for kids under 16, governments around the world are looking into the possibility of similar style bans. These governments considering these social media bans now have at least one unlikely supporter: The CEO of Pinterest. In a piece published for Time, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready has come out…
Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse. Updates focus on expanding creative tools in Google Ads and updates to bidding strategies in Microsoft Ads. The newest version of Nano Banana Pro is now available to advertisers in Google Ads. In a separate creative update, marketers spotted an expansion to Google’s Creative Toolkit in the platform. Lastly,…
Have you ever heard that ol’ country song “Who gets the family bible when two grownups lose heart?” Well, we may need a new version for the Gen Z era, because according to a litigation strategist I met at SXSW 2026, it’s actually the family TikTok account creators should be worried about. That’s right, TIL…