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What publishers are wishing for this holiday season: End AI scraping and determine AI-powered audience value

If publishers had one Christmas wish, it’d be for the chaos to end.  That means an end to the unscrupulous AI scraping that’s made even the notorious Wild West of ad tech in the mid to late 2010s look like small fry.   Naturally, the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to AI […]

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In Graphic Detail: The state of AI referral traffic in 2025

One thing became clear this year: AI platforms are changing where, how and how much referral traffic gets sent to publishers’ sites.  It’s a topic we covered often this year. ChatGPT referral traffic nearly doubled, but is still a very small percentage of publishers’ overall traffic. Google’s AI Overviews, its AI-generated summaries on the search

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Why Georgia-Pacific is turning its programmatic scrutinty to the sell side

A packaging and pulp manufacturer is not the obvious answer when the conversation turns to programmatic advertisers. That assumption, it turns out, would be a mistake.  Georgia-Pacific sits at the more advanced end of the spectrum, with an in-house programmatic team, lower ad tech costs and media dollars concentrated across a smaller set of buying

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How the MAHA movement influenced food and beverage brands in 2025

This piece was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail In 2025, the food industry agreed to help “Make America Healthy Again.” The MAHA initiative has largely been pushed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump Administration. It’s a broad slogan, and the MAHA movement has come to stand for different things in different people’s

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