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Find your customers on Roku this Black Friday
As with any digital ad campaign, the important thing is to reach streaming audiences who will convert. To that end, Roku’s self-service Ads Manager stands ready with powerful segmentation and targeting options. After all, you know your customers, and we know our streaming audience.
Worried it’s too late to spin up new Black Friday creative? With Roku Ads Manager, you can easily import and augment existing creative assets from your social channels. We also have AI-assisted upscaling, so every ad is primed for CTV.
Once you’ve done this, then you can easily set up A/B tests to flight different creative variants and Black Friday offers. If you’re a Shopify brand, you can even run shoppable ads directly on-screen so viewers can purchase with just a click of their Roku remote.
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Ai
Adobe is acquiring SEO platform Semrush for $1.9B, integrating the tech into marketing tools to help users optimize presence across search and AI platforms.
OpenAI started rolling out a “more capable” GPT-5.1 Pro to ChatGPT Pro users. GPT-5.1 is now live in the OpenAI API.
xAI launches Grok 4.1 with enhanced conversational skills
Microsoft restructures Windows into an “Agentic OS”
Gemini 3 takes top spot as the world’s most powerful AI model
Nvidia announced a record $57 billion in revenue this quarter, with $51.2 billion coming from its data center division
Google is offering students a year of Gemini 3 Pro at no cost, including unlimited chats, image uploads, and quiz generation (expires January 31, 2026). link here.
Google Maps is rolling out new features, including “Know Before You Go,” which automatically gathers helpful info about your destination before you arrive.
Crypto
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a surprise appearance at the opening of Pubkey, a Bitcoin-themed bar in Washington.
Bitcoin(BTC) Surpasses 84,000 USDT with a Narrowed 8.73% Decrease in 24 Hours
Ethereum(ETH) Drops Below 2,700 USDT with a 11.77% Decrease in 24 Hours
BNB Drops Below 820 USDT with a 10.21% Decrease in 24 Hours
Solana Drops to 128.42 USD with a 3.82% Decline Today
Hong Kong Sets Capital Requirements for Stablecoin Issuers. Issuers need HKD 25M capital, must hold low-risk liquid reserves, and undergo independent audits for compliance.
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How to schedule meetings in Gmail with AI
Open Gmail and reply to the email requesting a meeting.
Click “Help me schedule” on the bottom right.
Gmail + Gemini scans your Google Calendar and the email context.
It auto-suggests ideal meeting times based on your real availability.
Pick the slots you like and insert them into your email with one click.
Edit or customize any slot if needed (add locations, change durations, or remove conflicts).
From Boring to Brilliant: Training Videos Made Simple
Say goodbye to dense, static documents. And say hello to captivating how-to videos for your team using Guidde.
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The best part? The browser extension is 100% free.
Idea of the Week: 20 tiny ideas!!
Marc with a C was a simple guy back in 2021. Some people even called him a loser.
He lived with his parents. He felt depressed. He had no purpose. And he had zero income.
Most days he just scrolled Twitter. That was his escape.
One day he stumbled into a strange corner of Twitter. A place where people were building in public. Tiny projects. Fast launches. Daily updates. No waiting for permission.
He kept seeing these creators ship products every week. Some failed. Some worked. All of them kept moving.
Something clicked inside him.
Marc made a wild decision.
He would leave everything behind. Move to Bali. And work every single day for two years to build internet businesses.
So he did.
And he did not build one big thing. He built dozens of tiny things. Things so small you would hesitate to even call them businesses.
A few examples.
A tool that fakes Stripe notifications. check here.
Fifty Hacks. A daily list of productivity hacks voted by the internet.
And the list continues like an endless chain of experiments.
Here is the philosophy behind starting twenty small things instead of one giant thing.
It is easier to start many small things than one heavy slow thing.
Starting is never the problem. Growing is the painful part. So Marc asked himself a simple question. What happens if you just keep starting? What happens if you ship and move to the next?
When you try many things, the chances of something working go way up.
If you build twenty things and take each one seriously, you increase your odds far more than the person who builds one thing and works on it just fine.
Today Marc owns twenty small internet businesses that together make more than $50k/month.
None of them alone is huge.
Take Indiepage. A small site to showcase indie businesses. It makes around $980/month. Not massive. But multiplied by many other small ones, it becomes a machine.
Marc’s real strength is that he can ship fast. Again and again. Without getting stuck in one project for years.
I find this model fascinating because it shows something most people ignore.
There is no single path to success.
Some people go deep. Some people go wide. Marc went very wide. And it worked.
You can find the full list of Marc's businesses here.
Not for the ideas. For the style. For the speed. For the way he treats building as a daily practice.
Now let me ask you this.
What could you build if you stopped overthinking and just shipped something today?
That’s your alley dispatch for the week. Next one drops soon.
— Arman from Fringe Alley