Topic: publisher revenue
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Major Media Giants Sue Google for Antitrust Violations
Major media companies, including Vox Media and The Atlantic, have filed new lawsuits against Google, alleging its monopolistic ad tech practices have directly harmed their revenue and competitive options. The lawsuits build on a pivotal 2025 court ruling that found Google illegally monopolized ke...
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AI's Threat to Publisher Revenue and Ads
Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT are reducing user clicks on ads and publisher websites, threatening the advertising-based revenue models of digital publishing and search engines. Publishers are experiencing significant traffic and revenue declines due to AI-generated summaries and zero-click...
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Google's Web Dominance: Why We Must Defend Independent Sites
Google's AI Overviews and chatbots are reducing traffic to independent websites by providing immediate answers, leading to significant revenue declines for publishers like WikiHow. Despite Google's role in creating this disruption, its ad tools and content licensing agreements provide essential s...
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Google Faces EU Probe Over Parasite SEO Crackdown
The European Commission is investigating Google under the Digital Markets Act for potentially unfair enforcement of site reputation abuse policies, which critics claim discriminates against news publishers by demoting sites with sponsored content. Google defends its policy as necessary to combat ...
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People CEO Accuses Google of Stealing Content, Calls It a 'Bad Actor'
The CEO of People, Inc. accuses Google of using a single crawler to both index content for search and scrape material for AI products without compensation. This practice has led to a significant drop in search referral traffic for publishers while enabling Google to use their content to train com...
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Google's AI Headlines Are Replacing News Editors
Google has made its AI-generated news headlines in the Discover feed a permanent feature, despite ongoing issues with factual accuracy and misrepresentation of source articles. The AI system frequently produces errors, such as falsely announcing news events, conflating stories, and distorting ori...
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Creative Commons Weighs 'Pay-to-Crawl' for AI Training
Creative Commons is exploring a "pay-to-crawl" model to automate payments to websites when AI bots scrape their content, aiming to provide publishers a revenue stream and balance creator needs with AI industry demands. This proposed system could help offset publishers' lost web traffic from AI ch...
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Tech Giants Fund Trump-Linked Nonprofits
Major tech companies are funding Trump-connected nonprofits amid antitrust battles, suggesting strategic alignment to influence regulatory outcomes. The Trump administration is directing legal settlements from tech firms like YouTube toward presidential projects, including a new White House ballr...
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Web Developers Revolt Against Google's AI Overviews
Web developers and publishers are challenging Google's AI Overviews, which they argue reduce traffic and revenue by providing direct answers in search results, prompting infrastructure provider Cloudflare to update robots.txt files to pressure Google into changing its content crawling practices. ...
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Google's Fight for the Internet's Unofficial Currency
The Justice Department is seeking a court-ordered breakup of Google's ad technology empire, arguing its dominance stifles competition and harms publishers, with the trial focused on necessary remedies following a monopoly ruling. Central to the government's request is mandating Google to divest i...
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Google: Open Web in "Rapid Decline"
Google's court filing admits the open web is in rapid decline, contradicting its public statements about a healthy online ecosystem. The company argues against breaking up its ad tech business, warning it would harm publishers reliant on advertising revenue. Despite public claims that AI search t...
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