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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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February 16, 2026
WTF is Markdown for AI agents?
AI systems prefer structured formats or APIs to ingest and surface content more efficiently. And “markdown” has quickly become the common language used by AI systems and agents.
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February 12, 2026
Media Briefing: Turning scraped content into paid assets — Amazon and Microsoft build AI marketplaces
Amazon plans an AI content marketplace to join Microsoft's efforts and pay publishers — but it relies on AI com stop scraping for free.
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February 6, 2026
WTF is the IAB’s AI Accountability for Publishers Act (and what happens next)?
The IAB introduced a draft bill to make AI companies pay for scraping publishers' content. Here's how it'll differ from copyright law, and what comes next.
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February 3, 2026
Q&A: Nikhil Kolar, vp Microsoft AI scales its ‘click-to-sign’ publisher AI content marketplace
What started with a limited group of publishers and Copilot as the first customer is now evolving into a more scalable model, with Microsoft testing how pricing, access and compensation might work ...
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January 29, 2026
Google’s forced AI opt out: what changes — and what doesn’t — for publishers
Publishers want the Competition Markets Authority to impose harder structural remedies on Google regarding its AI crawler vs. behavioral ones.
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January 27, 2026
Cloudflare’s Human Native acquisition signals a new content economy for publishers
While the ink is pretty fresh on the acquisition, announced on Jan. 15, several media experts and publishers regard it as a signal for how Cloudflare plans to help build an infrastructure for the A...
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January 15, 2026
The Rundown: Google has drawn its AI payment lines — and publishers’ leverage is narrow
For publishers trying to navigate AI licensing, the message was blunt: Google is willing to pay for access, but not for training – and it remains unwilling to define AI Overviews as a compensable u...
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January 12, 2026
‘The net is tightening’ on AI scraping: Annotated Q&A with Financial Times’ head of global public policy and platform strategy
Matt Rogerson, FT’s director of global public policy and platform strategy, believes 2026 will bring a kind of reset as big tech companies alter their stance on AI licensing to avoid future legal r...
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