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Elon Musk explains how PayPal's referral program and friction reduction led to acquiring 100,000 customers in its first month, spending $60-70 million before being acquired by eBay.
Polymarket allegedly paid influencers to create fake videos of themselves placing bets, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The company reportedly produced over 1,000 deceptive clips, which creators have since removed.
Clouted is a startup using AI and a network of gig creators to automate the clipping and distribution of short videos, aiming to take the guesswork out of going viral. It recently raised $7 million in seed funding from investors including Slow Ventures.
This tweet analyzes the secret to getting stars for open-source projects, pointing out that the key lies in building identity recognition early in big accounts' comment sections, not just code quality. The author uses their OpenSeek and WhaleBro's DeepSeek-TUI as examples to illustrate the importance of reach and subsequent commercialization.
A startup called Content Rewards ran a head-to-head test showing that spending $5,000 on 1,970 creators generated 64.5 million views and 11,000 clicks, dwarfing a billboard ad's 24,311 views and 62 QR scans from the same budget, with a 2,655x gap in reach and dramatically lower CPM and cost per click.
Heygen releases Instant Highlights V2, an AI tool that automatically turns long videos into short viral-ready clips.
Artlist’s SeaDANCE 2.0 turns a single product photo into a 15-second viral commercial in under two minutes with cinematic AI-generated scenes and no post-editing.