You've presented the GrowthHackers Growth Studies from your site for Airbnb and Slack as "A version of this article was published on growthhackers" as if to imply you were the original authors. You are not. Our site did not give your permission to reproduce these in any version. Linking back to the original growth study does not absolve this behavior.
The biggest give away: We have a bug on our site that makes certain quoted text invisible and the copied growth studies show blank spaces where you'd expect that text.
For comparison:
http://growthcafe.studio/listing...https://growthhackers.com/growth...http://growthcafe.studio/listing...https://growthhackers.com/growth...
Btw the same thing has been done where an article about Uber from NYT which has also been presented as a growth study (i.e. a version of this appeared in the nytimes) .
http://growthcafe.studio/listing...https://www.nytimes.com/interact...
This is not how you "growth hack" any business.
@anujadhiya Thanks for the feedback. We identify each and every site as the original source with an appropriate link back to the original post. We publish content that we think is best for our audience. If setting up one-of-a-kind curated resources isn’t good for our audience, then what is? I hope the most of you can see the added value of what we do.
@matthias_van_den_avont The way your site is laid out implies that this is your content that was published elsewhere vs it being a curation. A curation implies links to content - not wholesale reproduction of content without permission.
Rather than getting into a further debate about this please remove all GrowthHackers original content from your site. This includes all content that has been identified as a growth study (as called out above) and those that have just been listed as regular content (like http://growthcafe.studio/listing... and others).
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