Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Here’s what I’m covering this week: How to build user personas for SEO from data you already have on hand. You can’t treat personas as a “brand exercise” anymore. In the AI-search era, prompts don’t just tell you
I still remember the piercing, digital screech of a 56k modem initiating its handshake with the future. While waiting for QuickTime VR demos to appear on my screen, pixel by agonizing pixel, I’d evangelize to anyone who’d listen about Siteman, a website builder with drag-and-drop functionality that felt like wielding
Almost two decades later, we’re still here. Still living (recently as a family of three), still working, and glad that we stayed long enough to see how much the city pulses with life. Since starting our studio From Form in 2012, we’ve had the chance to meet countless talented designers,
New research from OpenAI and Harvard finds that “Seeking Information” messages now account for 24% of ChatGPT conversations, up from 14% a year earlier. This is an NBER working paper (not peer-reviewed), based on consumer ChatGPT plans only, and the study used privacy-preserving methods where no human read user messages.
Brands are demanding consistency and clarity in measuring the success of their investments in retailers’ ad businesses. That was a clear theme of Digiday, Modern Retail and Glossy’s Retail Media Advertising Strategies event in New York City on Sept. 10. Representatives from many different brands and agencies said variations of
It’s been forty years since gaming changed forever with the release of Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The landmark September 1985 release not only introduced what would become Nintendo’s most iconic franchise, it also established the side-scrolling platformer genre and set the standard for creative, intuitive level
Google adds an Achievements report in Search Console so you can track click-based milestones, see in-progress goals, and jump to Insights and tips. Achievements now live inside Search Console. Report is divided into In progress and Achieved sections. Goals are based on clicks from Google Search. Source
Comedian Nate Bargatze helped raise the bar during Sunday’s 77th Emmys. Today, according to Nielsen fast national data, CBS announced that the 2025 Emmys reached 7.42 million viewers for its Sunday broadcast on CBS and Paramount+. Despite going up against Sunday Night Football, the awards ceremony reached a four-year high
Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help you navigate the creative journey. This week’s question: I’m the creative lead of a direct-to-consumer brand in India with
Google appears to have disabled or is testing the removal of the &num=100 URL parameter that shows 100 results per page. Reports of the change began around September 10, and quickly spread through the SEO community as rank-tracking tools showed disruptions. Google hasn’t yet issued a public statement. What’s Happening
