John Shehata, CEO of NewzDash, found something in July that a lot of publishers threatening to block Google’s AI don’t realize is already happening underneath them. Google has started folding entire Top Stories carousels directly inside AI Overviews, and the robots.txt directive most publishers reach for first does nothing to stop it. Shehata posted on…
Arc XP launches Ask The News, giving news publishers a way to answer reader questions with their own journalism — and keep the audience data, conversions, and revenue that AI platforms are quietly capturing. WASHINGTON, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Every day, millions of readers who once visited a news site now get their answers…
impact of AI on digital marketing.) Alternative Strategies for Marketers As the landscape shifts, marketers must be agile and innovative in their approaches. Here are a few strategies that can help mitigate the impact of the organic reach decline: Invest in Video Content: With the rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube, engaging video content…
FOTOARTE: MERCA2.0 Google Discover has established itself as one of the most important traffic channels for digital media, especially in countries where Android dominates the mobile market. Unlike traditional search, Discover works as a personalized feed that appears in the Google app or on the home screen of many smartphones, displaying content without the user…
Amazon, the e-commerce and cloud computing giant, is exploring the launch of a marketplace where publishers could license content to AI companies, The Information reported Monday. Internal documents circulated ahead of an Amazon Web Services conference on Tuesday position the new marketplace alongside the company’s flagship AI offerings, including Bedrock and Quick Suite, as tools…
PHOTO ART: MERCA2.0 | GEMINI The digital journalism industry is bracing for a radical shift: the day when Google stops being the traffic source that fuels millions of visits to media outlets around the world—and, with it, one of publishers’ core business models. READ ALSO. SEO is no longer enough: this is how brand visibility changes…
Google AI Overviews shown in front of a Google webpage. Picture: Shutterstock/DIA TV The UK’s competition watchdog has said publishers should be able to opt out of their content being used in Google’s AI Overviews without it affecting how they appear in search engine results. Google said in response it is already “exploring updates to…
In today’s Digest, we cover the UK pressuring Google over AI Overview opt-outs for websites, Google axing YouTube vs TV viewing comparisons, and UK advertising hitting £12.5bn in Q3, up 11.4%. UK pressures Google on AI overview opt-out for publishers UK authorities are intensifying pressure on Google to change how its services operate, aiming to…
“Existential challenges abound.” So reads the executive summary of a new report from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about journalism and technology trends in 2026. The report, published Monday, draws on interviews with 280 news executives from 51 countries — mostly from the U.K., U.S., and European countries, but also from the Philippines,…
