Jessica Davies

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. 

Amazon plans an AI content marketplace to join Microsoft's efforts and pay publishers — but it relies on AI com stop scraping for free.

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.

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 ...

Publishers want the Competition Markets Authority to impose harder structural remedies on Google regarding its AI crawler vs. behavioral ones.

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...

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...

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...

Cloudflare’s day job is fending off botnets and nation-state cyberattacks, not debating how Google and other AI firms crawl publisher sites.

For the bulk of publishers, Google is, as ever, the one to watch. It’s already got agentic features within its Chrome browser, but that’s the tip of the iceberg, some say.

Adaptability stopped being a nice-to-have for publishers years ago; it became a survival skill. Here’s a look at Digiday’s guide to what’s in and out for 2026.

Publishers want a fair, structured, regulated AI environment and they also want to define what the next decade of audience metrics looks like.

Digiday has compiled a scorecard grading AI platforms to make sense of the growing number of players in the AI content licensing market.

The company is testing AI-powered content recommendation models to keep readers moving through its network of sites and, in doing so, bump up revenue per session – its core performance metric.

The platform has secured seven multi-year deals with publishers including CNN, Fox News, People Inc., USA Today Co to incorporate their content into its large language model (LLM) Llama. 

The European Union's attempt at a legislative spring clean for Europe's web of data privacy rules, has landed flat with publishers.

We may be closing out 2025, but publishers aren’t retreating from the battle of AI search — some are escalating it, and they expect the fight to stretch deep into 2026. 

This week, the publisher of national U.K. titles Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star, is rolling out its first paid digital subscriptions – a big departure from the free, ad-funded model it’...