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A year of painful cuts and strategic shifts has reshaped Reach’s business. Next year, the publisher wants to show it can punch back in an AI-driven market.
This week, the publisher of national U.K. titles Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star, is rolling out its first paid digital subscriptions — a big departure from the free, ad-funded model it’s had throughout its 120-year history....
More publishers have joined the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Collective AI licensing framework, designed to standardize how publishers tell AI systems what content they can use, and how they must pay.
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media have joined the growing list of publishers supporting the framework, Digiday has learned.
The RSL Collective now has over 50 partners, co-...
AI chatbots have upended how people search online, creating a zero-click environment and reducing traffic to traditional search results. Publishers have taken the brunt of it, seeing dips in traffic to news coverage. Marketers too, however, are feeling the effects of lower site traffic, creating less first-party data and fewer opportunities to retarget shoppers, according to six agency execs....
As the data center faces unprecedented demand and a critical shortage of skilled technicians, energy tech firm Schneider Electric has launched an initiative to recruit and train 400 U.S. military veterans for customer-facing service roles supporting data centers, power systems and critical facilities.
The timing couldn’t be more opportune. Data center demand is projected to grow 33% annually...
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail.
Last week, federal lawmakers proposed changes to the 2018 Farm Bill that would effectively ban most hemp-derived THC products in a year.
The proposed ban was included in the bill Congress passed to end the government shutdown. The Farm Bill had removed hemp as a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)....
Agentic AI is the ad industry’s favorite buzzword.
Companies present in every niche of the media industry are working to build and test their own AI agents. Ad tech firms hope the tech can help them cut costs and add value; agencies and advertisers hope they can use the tech to leapfrog those same ad-tech middlemen; and publishers hope the tools can grant them a greater degree of control over...
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This time last year, OpenAI finally seemed to reckon with the idea that it needed a cash influx by way of advertising. This year, that plan has been put into motion.
In August, the tech behemoth scooped up Instacart’s former CEO Fidji Simo as its new CEO of Applications. Then in September, OpenAI had taken the first steps in agentic commerce with...
After months of testimony and a final day of unusually pointed questioning, Judge Leonie Brinkema used the closing arguments phase of the U.S. Department of Justice v. Google to give the clearest indication yet of how she is weighing up an appropriate remedy after ruling the defendant a monopolist earlier this year.
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When economist Tyler Cowen sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a fireside chat during a four-day conference in Berkeley, California last month, the conversation eventually turned to the ChatGPT maker’s buzzy new deal with America’s biggest retailer: With OpenAI now letting Walmart shoppers buy products directly inside...
Blended workforce models — combining independent contractors with full-time employees — have evolved from experimental tactics into business-critical strategies.
According to a study from consultancies Lions...