Posts about Market Trends
The Battle for the Homepage: How Publishers Are Using Community to Win Back Control in the Age of Zero-Click
November 25, 2025 | Nick Tiglias
For years, publishers have been told that the homepage is dead. Search and social were supposed to be the engines of discovery, reliable pipelines of readers arriving from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and whatever new platform happened to dominate that month.
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When Google's AI Overviews launched last year, publishers worried they might negatively impact their traffic. It turns out those worries were justified, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
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AI: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em to Make More Publisher Revenue
January 02, 2024 | Michael Gately
All over the world, publishers are trying to extract money from AI.
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24 of the Most Important Metrics for Publishers in '24
December 13, 2023 | Michael Gately
Metrics are a continually discussed—and debated—aspect of digital advertising and publishing.
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The Good and the Bad of AI in Publishing
September 26, 2023 | Michael Gately
Should it stay, or should it go? Generative AI, that is.
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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
May 31, 2023 | Michael Gately
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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For digital publishers, it's time to party like it's 1999
April 26, 2023 | Michael Gately
Britney Spears. Boy bands. Reality TV game shows. Harry Potter mania.
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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
January 25, 2023 | Michael Gately
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
January 03, 2023 | Michael Gately
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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A is for Automation—and It's Boosting Engagement and Revenue for Publishers
December 06, 2022 | Michael Gately
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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