Jessica Davies

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 of 2026 as AI‑era, zero‑click search choked the flow of traffic to news and other open‑web sites, per U.S. and U.K. benchmarking data from Ozone, shared ...

SPUR is publisher‑run and fixated on one thing: turning AI’s use of their content from opaque scraping into a transparent, usage‑based licensing system they control. 

The Cloudflare's latest AI settings reshape how compliant crawlers behave, yet the biggest leakage for publisher content remains a gray scraping economy that doesn’t bother to play by those rules.

For publishers, Cannes this year isn’t just about showing up for clients and sponsors. It’s a mid‑year checkpoint on two hard questions: who is going to pay for the open web in an AI world, and whe...

Germany’s BCN, the joint-venture commercial arm of three major publishing houses – Hubert Burda Media, Funke and Klambt – is rolling out a commercial product that helps brands get properly surfaced...

Le Monde is "figuring out" how to maintain its subscription partnership with readers who use AI agents rather than its homepage or app.

The CMA has, on paper, given publishers a right to refuse AI in search. But because it’s opt-out, and Google is slow-walking the data needed to judge the impact, that right is barely usable, publis...

For many audience development teams, the question is no longer whether to buy traffic, but how far they can push it.

Publishers are starting to make meaningful AI licensing deals via Snowflake's RAG pipe, with some securing several six-figure deals with financial institutions.

Omnicom’s drive to “reduce middlemen” is showing up in how its agencies talk to publishers. 

The Economist is testing agent-readable versions of content that already sits outside its paywall, as it prepares for "two versions of the web."

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.

Agentic media buying promises a reinvention of the programmatic ecosystem, but experts are divided on whether it could help – or hinder – accountability.

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. 

News UK is turning The Times’ first-party data into a synthetic audience planning tool for advertisers.

By pairing star journalists with a subject‑specific standalone YouTube channel, the publisher hopes to deepen parasocial relationships off‑platform and cultivate future subscribers.

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...