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May 18, 2026
The Economist prepares for a two‑track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents
The Economist is testing agent-readable versions of content that already sits outside its paywall, as it prepares for "two versions of the web."
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May 13, 2026
Mail Metro Media shifts ad strategy toward PMPs and fewer ads as it unifies stack
Mail Metro Media wants to drive 300% PMP growth over the next three years as part of plans to turn a high-volume digital direct business into an outcomes shop.
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May 11, 2026
The case for and against agentic media buying
Agentic media buying promises a reinvention of the programmatic ecosystem, but experts are divided on whether it could help – or hinder – accountability.
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May 4, 2026
From ad tech tax to AI data brokers: the new middlemen keep 100%, publishers say
For some publishers, third-party content scraping lands as an even bigger affront than the ad tech tax they’ve spent years navigating – not a share of the pie, but the pie itself.
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April 27, 2026
News UK turns The Times’ first-party data into synthetic audiences for advertisers
News UK is turning The Times’ first-party data into a synthetic audience planning tool for advertisers.
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April 22, 2026
How The Financial Times is betting on personality-led vodcasts as its next subscription lever
By pairing star journalists with a subject‑specific standalone YouTube channel, the publisher hopes to deepen parasocial relationships off‑platform and cultivate future subscribers.
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April 20, 2026
From page views to propensity: How the Daily Mail is retooling for a zero-click world
The pressure of zero-click underpins a wider product overhaul: games upgraded from sideshow to front door, new hubs like Crime Desk designed to keep niche communities coming back, an AI-powered dyn...
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April 7, 2026
Ozone’s platform tries to simulate how publisher content appears in AI answers
Ozone's new simulation platform aims to crack AI’s black box to let publishers model how their content gets surfaced in AI answer engines.
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April 6, 2026
CNN builds in-house agent infrastructure as it prepares for AI-driven media trading
In Q3, it plans to test one or two properties to see how they’re interpreted by LLMs, before turning in Q4 to buyer behavior and whether budgets are being allocated toward agent-to-agent trading ex...
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April 1, 2026
Publishers see double-digit growth from TTD’s OpenPath, but volatility remains
Several publishers said that TTD is temporarily allowing duplicate bids on those integrating with OpenAds, as a sweetener to ease onboarding. One publisher said it plans to accelerate integration w...
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March 19, 2026
Media Briefing: What to expect at the Digiday Publishing Summit, March 2026 edition
Execs from The Atlantic, Arena Group, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Guardian, New York Post, People Inc., Washington Post, and more, will share their strategies on everything from zero-click aud...
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March 19, 2026
Cloudflare’s compliant crawler highlights tension – and opportunity – in the emerging AI content market
Cloudflare faces tension in its new role: sitting in the middle between publishers and AI companies while balancing trust, control and monetization.
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March 12, 2026
Media Briefing: In the AI era, subscribers are the real prize — and the Telegraph proves it
In an era where AI is eroding referral traffic and third-party distribution, a subscriber who pays directly has become the most valuable reader a publisher can own. Springer just bought over a mill...
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February 27, 2026
The case for and against publisher content marketplaces
The debate isn’t whether publishers want marketplaces. It’s whether the economics support them.
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