As Google referral traffic has declined, social has become a more important source of audience engagement for media companies. Facebook remains a ...

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The Financial Times | Ministers to make YouTube and Meta boost prominence of ...

The news industry is entering an era where collaboration is becoming a business necessity. Publishers still compete fiercely for audiences, subscriptions, ...

For decades, publishers have adapted as new technologies and platforms reshaped the path between content and audiences online. Search changed how ...

A remarkable milestone just slipped by without a peep from industry pundits. In the last quarter, Google and Meta surpassed an annual run rate of one half of a trillion dollars in advertising revenues ...

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 ...

The Wall Street Journal recently surpassed 1 million followers on TikTok. We didn’t hit this milestone by chasing viral hits, but by blending what works on the platform with what makes the Journal ...

Viewers are turning to dramas made for mobile and split into digestible chunks. It’s worked in China, but can these shows be a hit elsewhere? Microdramas, sometimes called vertical dramas, are ...

For media companies, the start of a new year is an opportunity to take stock of the big trends and reassess priorities for the year ahead. AI inevitably looms large in this mix in 2026, particularly ...

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