AI shopping assistants are cutting reviewers out of the sale
A test with Meta's Muse shows how AI recommendations can lean on a reviewer's work while sending the sale somewhere else.
AI media analysis
How People Inc. turned bot blocking into a business
People Inc.'s Jonathan Roberts on blocking bots by default, the 18 Napsters of content, and why AI is spending in the wrong place.
AI is changing which journalists matter to PR
PR teams now measure how often AI cites a reporter's work, and that's an opening for beat journalists and the outlets that back them.
Publishers finally have AI buyers but no say in the price
A real market for AI inference is forming, with payment rails to match. What publishers still lack is leverage.
What publishers should get from AI besides money
AI referrals are tiny but valuable, Google is shaky ground, and a licensing check is only half the deal. Bombora's Jaime Schultheis explains.
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Stop asking AI to make the old thing faster
Opportunity AI asks what your audience could get from you that they never could before.
What 99 AI licensing deals reveal about the future of publishing
Rob Kelly tracks 99 AI licensing deals. What publishers are really selling now, and why OpenAI may settle with the Times.
Every new AI launch is making the backlash worse
Every new AI release lands the same way: better tool, more backlash. For newsrooms, the fix is a name someone can actually hold responsible.
Can publishers sell ads to bots?
Oasy co-founder Choy Travers on generative engine advertising, the Perplexity cloaking fight, and why licensing deals leave 90 percent of publishers behind.
Publishers don’t need to trust AI companies to work with them
The instinct to block AI bots understandable, but verifying bots protects your content while letting you compete for AI visibility.