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AI Overviews: Can Google be the judge of truth?
This may in fact be a huge opportunity for dedicated publishers. I’m not referring to publishers contributing to Google and OpenAI, nor to publishers creating their own AI summaries in an evident attempt to become AI technologists. (Who believes they can outperform…
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Semafor: ‘As Clicks Dry Up for News Sites, Could Apple News Be a Lifeline?’
Like many digital publishers, The Daily Beast was struggling at the end of 2023. Facebook, long a primary driver of clicks to the publication, had turned away from news. Search traffic had become increasingly erratic, as Google adjusted its algorithm to combat…
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Google “AI Overview” and zero click reading: Publisher’s sites out of focus
from Ars Technica: The feature, renamed “AI Overview,” is here now, and it feels like the biggest change to Google Search ever. The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an AI box that scrapes the web and gives…
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Why an Independent Media Asset Management System is Essential
In the digital age, managing media assets is one of the fundamental challenges for publishers. Media Asset Management (MAM) plays a central role that goes beyond the functionality of a traditional Content Management System (CMS). Here are some key reasons why an…
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Everything in one place: revolutionize your media asset management with COMYAN
In today’s fast-paced media landscape, editors-in-chief and publishing managers are constantly faced with the challenge of managing a wide variety of content efficiently. The Comyan Media System provides a comprehensive solution that allows all of a publisher’s content – from articles and…
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Economist: Should big tech save newspapers?
Since the internet took off, the print media’s advertising-supported business model has floundered. In the past 20 years newspapers’ ad revenues in America have fallen by about 80% (to Depression-era levels), while circulation has roughly fallen by half. Though online traffic has…
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How Google and Facebook are killing Publishers
For hundreds of years, publishers were successful and prosperous by having the highly desirable role that technology people call a “platform”. They aggregated content from their journalists (who, by themselves, did not earn very much for producing content) with advertising from their…
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