- Reddit Reports Strong Q2 Revenue Growth But 'Choppy' Search Traffic
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 30, 2026
Reddit saw its Q2 revenue leap by 61% to $805 million, surpassi ...
- Bot, Agent Traffic Now Surpasses Human, Leading To Ad Challenges
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Sunday, July 26, 2026
Website traffic from bots and AI agents surpassed human traffic for t ...
- AI Fraud The Ad Industry Has Yet To Discover
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 27, 2026
AI has lowered the cost of faking a click, an install ...
- Replacing Digital Pennies With AI Half-Pennies
Media 3.0, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Decades ago, then NBCU chief Jeff Zucker famously quipped how search engin ...
- AI Accountability Gap Widens Despite Rapid Adoption, IAB Finds
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 20, 2026
Two complementary studies from the IAB reveal that 40% of consumers u ...
- Patreon Aims To Block Training Agents' Via Creators' Work
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, July 10, 2026
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block automated bots or "crawlers" fr ...
- Google Integrates Data From Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube Into Search Console
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Google has introduced "platform properties" in its Search Console to help websi ...
- MRC Issues 'Interim' Guidance On AI In Media Measurement
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The interim guidance outlines nine principles and existing standards and guidelines impact ...
- AI Fast-Tracks Open Web's Collapse
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 6, 2026
For every hour spent online searching for information, only 15 minutes ...
- Programmatic Shift: Impact Of Agentic Media Buying
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 2, 2026
Data released this week examines agentic media buying in programmatic advertising a ...
- AI Is Causing The Content Industry To Eat Its Own Foundation: Opinion
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Artificial intelligence is breaking the model through which traffic was sent ba ...
- Amazon Doubled AI-Referred Purchases, Year-Over-Year
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 30, 2026
AI-referred purchases continue to rise, with AI-driven sales twice as high ...
- The Word That Broke Google AI Overviews, Literally
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 29, 2026
The word "ignore" on Google AI Overviews "broke" the tech in Ma ...
- Google Eyes Broader Publisher Licensing
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 25, 2026
Broader permissions would give Google more options to use publishers' content, includi ...
- Cisco Reveals AI Clogging Networks, Could Slow Ad Serving
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 16, 2026
AI agents now do the work for advertisers and consumers on t ...
- Bots Take Lead, AI Traffic Surpasses Humanity's
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Microsoft announced key updates Wednesday that support brands as the company mov ...
- Google Links Analytics With Business Profiles, Reports Local Metrics
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Google has introduced a direct integration between Google Analytics and Google Busine ...
- IAB Opens AI Bot Guidance For New Web Rules
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 27, 2026
IAB Tech Lab has released new guidance on AI system bot-and-crawler manageme ...
- AI Search May Be Helping The Media
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 22, 2026
Much has been written about artificial intelligence (AI) killing traffic to med ...
- Chatbot Ad IDs Share Data To Google, Microsoft, Other Analytics Providers
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 18, 2026
OpenAI, Microsoft and others recently introduced ads in their chatbots that crea ...
- Penske Media Seeks To Measure Dark Traffic
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 11, 2026
Penske Media Corporation is working with Ad-Shield to find new ways ...
- If It Breeds (Chaos), It Leads
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Monday, May 11, 2026
In a first, Truth Social has taken the No. 2 slot (ju ...
- The Google Analytics 'Blind Spot'
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 20, 2026
AI agents have driven 88% of organic search traffic volume in Apri ...
- The Media-Buying Singularity Is Almost Here: Upfront 2031-32
Media 3.0, Joe Mandese - Thursday, April 9, 2026
It's been a year since I first began asking industry execs ...
- Fly Me To The Moon: Publishers Draw Readership Surge With Artemis II Coverage
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 6, 2026
Even interest in past Apollo missions has surged during the Artemis spa ...
- Nonprofit News Sites Saw Traffic Growth In January
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Nonprofit news sites drew 72.1 million visits in January, up from 6. ...
- Human Traffic Slows, Automation Grows 8 Times Faster
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 26, 2026
Automated online traffic from bots conducting agentic searches and purchases grew 23.5 ...
- Gen Z Leading AI Agent Shopping
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 20, 2026
Shopping queries on AI platforms are growing faster than any other catego ...
- Traffic May Be Declining, But The Verge Is Thriving
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 20, 2026
Traffic is plummeting for seemingly resilient publications, including Digital Trends (97%) and The Verge (-85%). B ...
- Google AI Pivot Chases OpenClaw
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 20, 2026
Google's quest to create a universal assistant could be the reason ...