Now Available: Disqus Polls

Today, we’re thrilled to launch Disqus Polls, a powerful new tool that enables publishers to easily create and embed interactive polls directly onto their site, boosting audience engagement and collecting valuable insights. After weeks of feedback from early adopters, we’ve fine-tuned Polls to deliver the best experience for publishers and their audiences, and now, Polls are available to everyone!

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Now Available: Disqus Polls
What Disqus Ad Setups Can Do for Your Site

What Disqus Ad Setups Can Do for Your Site

For most websites, ads are an irritating yet necessary evil. At the end of the day, they do provide publishers with a way to monetize their websites and financially support the time and hard work put into them. On the other hand, some publishers would rather keep their sites ads-free. Whichever publisher category you fall into, Disqus has got you covered.
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Exploring Threads: Should Publishers Embrace Meta's Latest Platform?

Exploring Threads: Should Publishers Embrace Meta's Latest Platform?

In case you haven’t heard the recent news, Meta has launched yet another social media platform called Threads. The new social network is a text-based platform that provides users with a digital space to share ideas, information, and have public conversations.
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Social media is now only driving a sliver of referral traffic for publishers

Social media is now only driving a sliver of referral traffic for publishers

The Press Gazette, a publication in the UK, just published a detailed article about Twitter’s and Facebook’s declining roles as traffic drivers for news publishers based on data from several sources.
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Introducing Our New Website

Introducing Our New Website

We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website.
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For digital publishers, it's time to party like it's 1999

For digital publishers, it's time to party like it's 1999

Britney Spears. Boy bands. Reality TV game shows. Harry Potter mania.
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Google’s FLEDGEling privacy concept not resonating with publishers

Google’s FLEDGEling privacy concept not resonating with publishers

Stop me if you've heard this one before (but this time it's different—I promise).
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A Whole New Era: What AI Tools Like ChatGPT Might Mean for Your Site

A Whole New Era: What AI Tools Like ChatGPT Might Mean for Your Site

The new year is off to a dynamic start with a confluence of macroeconomic factors at play, much hullabaloo at major tech companies, and, now, the emergence of new generative AI tools that we could have used to write this blog post (but didn't, we promise).
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The Key to Preserving Publisher Revenue on the Open Web: Data

The Key to Preserving Publisher Revenue on the Open Web: Data

There’s much to distract publishers of late. Misinformation, disinformation, and a rash of related and serious current events abound. Third-party cookie deprecation looms, as ever. Leadership, privacy, and measurement-and-reach changes in the big tech platforms have disrupted both advertising and publishing to a large degree.
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The Disqus comment section, upgraded

The Disqus comment section, upgraded

Last month, we announced that we were working on a refresh of the Disqus comment section. Today, after weeks of listening to and incorporating tons of awesome feedback from our awesome community of commenters and publishers, we’re taking a huge step forward in fully deploying the new comment section across our entire network. It's a very exciting day!
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A is for Automation—and It's Boosting Engagement and Revenue for Publishers

A is for Automation—and It's Boosting Engagement and Revenue for Publishers

A new report from the International News Media Association (INMA) highlights how publishers are using artificial intelligence and automation to grow both their editorial coverage AND their revenue.
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Let's talk about the Disqus redesign

Let's talk about the Disqus redesign

Hi all, As some of you may have heard, we’re currently working on a redesign of the Disqus comment section. Starting today, we're officially moving our redesign into limited production and we wanted to take this opportunity to share a little bit about our process and the thinking behind what we're doing.
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