So far, AI Overviews is not wrecking publishers’ traffic — plus other AI Overviews news. Danny Goodwin on August 19, 2024 Two large publishers, Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis, say Google AI Overviews haven’t significantly impacted their traffic. Here’s what the IAC (owner of Dotash) wrote its Q2 2024 shareholder letter: “Google began to roll … Continue reading Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic, say publishers
Advertisers, Publishers Are Done Dunking Cookies by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 10, 2024 “Happenstance.” That’s how Quantcast CTO Peter Day described the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s dominance over Google’s roadmap to deprecate browser cookies. Looking up the word, happenstance, to define it correctly, is “a chance situation,” the description read. “I’m not … Continue reading Advertisers, Publishers Are Done Dunking Cookies
More European legal problems for Google as Axel Springer and other well-known German publishers sue over alleged abuse of its market position. Nicola Agius on March 1, 2024 Google is facing a $ 2.27 billion lawsuit by 32 media groups claiming that the company’s digital advertising practices have led to financial losses. The publishers, including … Continue reading Google sued for $2.27 billion by European publishers
Google is reportedly paying publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI to write stories What could possibly go wrong. Karissa Bell Wed, Feb 28, 2024 Anadolu via Getty Images Google has been quietly striking deals with some publishers to use new generative AI tools to publish stories, according to a report in Adweek. … Continue reading Google is reportedly paying publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI to write stories
Google is giving greater focus and consideration to publishers and partners based on revenue streams they create for the company. AdSense has shifted to an eCPM payment model for publishers, and the company has vowed more support YouTube creators. MediaPost.com: Search & Performance Marketing Daily (10)
Crunching Numbers: What Google, Meta Owe U.S. Publishers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2024 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday filed a complaint alleging that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies in the ad-tech stack that website publishers depend on to sell ads, and advertisers rely on … Continue reading Crunching Numbers: What Meta And Facebook Owe U.S. Publishers
News publishers are concerned AI answers will replace Search traffic, leading to less revenue, lost jobs and other damages. Danny Goodwin on November 1, 2023 AI companies (e.g., Google, OpenAI) are primarily using high-quality content created by news publishers to train generative AI systems, which then compete directly against those publishers. That’s the core argument … Continue reading Report: Generative AI violates copyrights of news publishers
Search Under Fire: Publishers Eye Coalition To Address Generative AI by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 28, 2023 Search engines are once again under fire from some of the top news publishers. The New York Times, News Corp, and IAC are among the companies that are discussing the formation of a coalition to address how generative … Continue reading Search Under Fire From Publishers Reportedly Forming Coalition To Address Generative AI
How Advertisers, Publishers Are Lowering Carbon Emissions In Ad Supply Chain by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 19, 2023 Publishers and advertisers working to launch ad inventory that emits less carbon are also trying to stay within budget — requiring each company to step up and support the process. Metaphorically, Curt Larson, CPO at Sharethrough, says … Continue reading How Advertisers, Publishers Are Lowering Carbon Emissions In Ad Supply Chain
By Laya Neelakandan April 13, 2023 Spotify announced on Thursday that it is releasing new technology to turn broadcasts into podcasts for any publisher with a Megaphone account, Spotify’s podcasting platform. The new technology, coined as “broadcast-to-podcast” (B2P), will automatically create podcast episodes from broadcast content once set up in Megaphone, according to … Continue reading Spotify now lets publishers automatically transform radio broadcasts into podcasts
