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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.
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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 News
Uber announced plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco in 2026.
California based robotics startup 1X has opened up preorders for NEO, a humanoid home robot priced at $20,000.
OpenAI launches “character cameos” for Sora, letting users create reusable animated avatars and multi-scene videos.
Canva launches its new “Creative OS” with faster editing, Canva Grow, and the AI-powered Canva Design Model.
OpenAI targets a 2027 IPO at a $1T valuation to fund expansion, including its $500B Stargate project.
OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered cybersecurity agent that detects and fixes vulnerabilities (now in private beta).
Crypto News
Strategy Inc sells $69.5 million in shares, buys 397 bitcoin.
Bitcoin was on track for a monthly loss in October, its first since 2018, ending what many called “Uptober”.
Markets pulled back again: Crypto market cap down ~3%, long liquidations over US$400 million in 24 hrs, driven by hawkish comments from the Fed and outflows from Bitcoin spot ETFs.
Kalshi (prediction market platform) Appoints Former Uber Executive as First CFO.
Zcash Surpasses Monero in Market Value, Indicating Shift in Privacy Coin Landscape.
BNB Chain Releases Fermi Hardfork Update.
Bitcoin Mining Firm IREN Secures $9.7 Billion Deal with Microsoft for Cloud Services.
Meet your new assistant (who happens to be AI).
Meet Skej — your new scheduling assistant. Whether it’s a coffee intro, a client check-in, or a last-minute reschedule, Skej is on it. Just CC Skej on your emails, and it takes care of everything: checking calendars, suggesting times, and sending out invites.
Productivity With Notion
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Pomelli (by Google Labs and DeepMind) to automatically create your business identity and generate on brand marketing campaigns with ready to use creatives.
Step by step:
Go to Pomelli, click "Let's Get Started", enter your website URL - Pomelli scans and extracts colors, fonts, taglines, tone, and product cues
Edit your "Business DNA" summary by adjusting colors, values, and copy to match your brand vision - all fields are customizable
Prompt the campaign generator: "Create a scary but kind Halloween campaign", review three variations like "Give them something good" or "Treat yourself, no tricks"
In the creative editor, change headlines, text, fonts, colors, resize for different placements, use "Fix layout" to auto reflow elements, and add a call to action.
Pro tip: Be sure to test the conversion rate of Pomelli-generated creatives vs. your previous creatives.
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Idea of the Week:
Today’s story is about someone who sells piano sheets online,
for $5 each. Sounds small, right?
Well, that small business now makes hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
The site is called MusicNotes.com.
If you’ve ever Googled “piano sheet for [any popular song],” you’ve probably seen it in the top results.
From Taylor Swift to Mozart, they have everything.
But here’s what’s crazy: it started as a tiny side project by a group of music lovers.
They simply wanted a legal, digital way for people to buy and print sheet music at home.
Remember, this was before iTunes, before Spotify, before streaming. If you wanted sheet music, you had to buy a physical book.
They decided to change that.
They launched the website, uploaded a few dozen piano pieces, and charged $4.95 per download.
No subscriptions, no upsells, just instant sheet music in PDF form.
Musicians loved it.
Fast forward to today: MusicNotes now has over 400,000 digital arrangements,
serves millions of users, and has sold over 50 million downloads worldwide. That’s 50 million × $5 = $250 million in total sales over time.
They still operate the same way: pay once, get your sheet instantly.
The design looks simple, but their system is genius:
Every time a song trends (say, Billie Eilish drops a hit), they upload that sheet within days.
Their business depends on viral songs.
What I love about this story is how boring it sounds and how brilliant it is.
They didn’t reinvent music.
They just built infrastructure around it.
People think innovation means building something new.
Sometimes, it just means making something old easier to buy.
And this idea isn’t limited to music.
The same framework works for any niche where:
People love collecting things, and
The product can be digitally delivered.
Imagine:
Selling printable art for $3.
Selling digital crochet patterns for $6.
Selling guitar chord charts or DJ loops for $10.
Small payments. Massive reach. Compounding sales.
That’s your alley dispatch for the week. Next one drops soon.
— Arman from Fringe Alley