Growth Intelligence Brief

Growth Intelligence Brief #23

ZipRecruiter gives back July spike, YouTube slides 6th straight week, dictionaries surge, NYC.gov and StreetEasy crash, TheKitchn hits all-time high…

Aug 20 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #22

AI Mode started leaning into products over content

Aug 6 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #21

Is Google splitting AI Overviews from SEO visibility?

Jul 10 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #20

Is Reddit done? Is Yellow Pages back? Why did Yelp hit a new record this week?

Jun 12 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #19

An updated version of the brief, the SaaS slide and Google's agentic SEO press release.

May 29 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #18

Snapchat and Nextdoor grow at rapid pace, Amazon builds LLM knowledge graph and Microsoft is leading the game in AEO transparency.

May 15 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #17

New research on ChatGPT's hidden queries, the AI Overview accuracy problem Google doesn't want to admit, and why primary sources are quietly pulling…

Apr 17 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #15

GPTBot hit a zero-authority site 470x harder than Googlebot. New data shows that doesn't translate to citations. This week: the 2 filters that actually…

Mar 11 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #14

Breaking down the infrastructure of the Agentic Web: Cloudflare's "Markdown for Agents," WebMCP, the fallout from Google's Gemini 3 update, and what new…

Feb 19 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #13

Google makes AI changes to the SERPs, Chrome and shopping at rapid pace. We're getting more telemetry but still miss key numbers (AIOs, *cough…

Feb 4 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #12

Explaining the AI hype and how it carries over to SEO, how Google wins with Gemini and what it means for marketers, how OpenAI plans to strike back and…

Jan 15 • Kevin Indig

Growth Intelligence Brief #11

ChatGPT reduces Amazon's visibility before BFCM | high value prompts on ChatGPT | the consultant vs. commodity economy | Gemini 3

Dec 5, 2025 • Kevin Indig

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