Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The Verge | Former FCC staffers agree: Brendan Carr needs to be stopped (5 min ...

Data shows that publishers are already experiencing steep traffic losses: Business Insider is down 55% in organic search traffic since 2022, with Forbes ...

Across sessions and conversations, the members-only 2026 DCN Summit revealed a clearer picture of an industry being reshaped by AI. That includes the ...

The relationship between audiences and media is shifting. New technologies—particularly agentic and search-based AI—are reshaping how people discover and ...

For many media organizations, the threat of “Google Zero” is increasingly becoming a reality. Between November 2024 and November 2025, traffic from Google Search to more than 2,500 sites in the ...

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Generative AI tools have a lot of power to change the media business—from the way we work, to the data we collect, to audience needs and expectations. The area is complex, and changing so rapidly, ...

Content licensing has long been an important revenue stream for digital media companies. For decades, it allowed publishers to monetize their content by granting rights for others to republish or ...

DCN member data, which echoes Pew Research, shows what Google won’t admit: AI overviews siphon attention, erode publisher traffic, and harm the open web’s promise of discovery. The numbers are in – ...

Generative AI enables the production of content at scale. It has been found to generate narratives with essential elements like concrete characters, logical plot development, and coherence, which are ...

For decades, advertising was the primary source of income for media companies. However, the digital age has forced publishers to rapidly reassess their revenue mix as advertising monies increasingly ...

Media companies are increasingly exploring innovative revenue models as a strategic element of ongoing efforts to reduce their reliance on advertising and subscriptions. This is significant because, ...