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Top Products on TikTok

Check out TikTok’s Top Products tool to identify trending products in your region and category, so you can pop the hood on what’s working. You can filter through dozens of categories and subcategories, search by country, and limit your results to a specific window of time. Get performance analytics and audience insights, from CTR to CPA, and browse related content.

Adobe Embedded PDF Viewer

Adobe has released a free WordPress plugin that enables 4 user-friendly ways to display an interactive PDF online. Easily embed high-quality PDFs on your site with digital collaboration capabilities, security, and user analytics.

Scalenut

Scalenut can help you simplify your SEO content stack. Access your entire content lifecycle in one platform with AI-powered tools for SEO content planning, research, creation, and optimization. The Cruise Mode feature even allows you to generate an SEO-optimized blog draft in 5 minutes. Score.

Visla

Visla’s AI video generator can create a concept based on your input—like theme and tone—incorporate public and personal stock footage, and sync an AI-generated voice. The process takes just minutes, and you can revise the script to get it right.

Rotato

We love a good drag, drop, and done. Quickly create engaging still and animated 3D mockups with Rotato to showcase your mobile app or website functionality the way it’s meant to be experienced. You can start from scratch or work with templates to generate mockups for any platform or channel.

Awful AI

We’re in the midst of a white-hot AI frenzy, and if you’re feeling tentative about it (or even a little suspicious), you’re not alone. Folks on GitHub have curated Awful AI, a list of misuses and ethically dubious case studies for maximum transparency and accountability. Worth a scroll.

Campaign URL Builder

Use Google’s Campaign URL Builder to add campaign parameters—like source, medium, and name—to URLs in order to measure Custom Campaigns within your Google Analytics accounts.

Yoast Duplicate Post Plugin

Get this: you can quickly duplicate your posts and pages in WordPress in one click with this handy little plugin. Why would you want to? Well, you might be manually building pages that follow a common template, like product pages; or you might just want to back up important content. The list goes on. It’s simple, effective, and free. Love it.

99 Problems

Need some thinkin’ inspo today? Consider this: the world’s biggest tech companies started small, by aiming to solve one problem felt by one specific customer segment. OpinionX has assembled 99 quick case studies—from Facebook to Uber—to illustrate this point.