A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for generative AI startup ProRata’s revenue share program, including The Boston Globe, Vox Media and Future, as well as Fast Co. and Inc owner Mansueto Ventures. ProRata operates Gist.ai, an AI-powered search engine that utilizes licensed content to generate answers, which launchedContinue Reading
By Sara Guaglione • June 2, 2025 • Ivy Liu It finally happened: The New York Times signed an AI licensing deal. Not with Perplexity, or Google — and definitely not with OpenAI or Microsoft — but with Amazon. The agreement will allow Amazon products, like Alexa speakers, to use summariesContinue Reading
This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Media Briefing looks at what AI Mode, the latest generative AI search experience Google has rolled out, means for publishers’Continue Reading
This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Media Briefing looks at The Washington Post’s deal with OpenAI to use the news org’s content in its ChatGPT searchContinue Reading
By Sara Guaglione • March 28, 2025 • Ivy Liu This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → Time has evaluated “dozens and dozens” of AI tools to determine what could be a good fit for the company, both as enterpriseContinue Reading
This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers had to say about referral traffic (which, spoiler alert, is as volatile as ever) during the Digiday Publishing Summit’s closed-door town hall sessions. The volatility ofContinue Reading
By Sara Guaglione • March 26, 2025 • Ivy Liu This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → Fast Company and Inc. are tightening up their paywalls. Up until a few weeks ago, the Mansueto Ventures-owned publishers would put one newContinue Reading
By Sara Guaglione • March 17, 2025 • BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said in an earnings call last week that the company was investing $10 million of resources into BF Island, a social platform BuzzFeed is building that will focus on user-generated content supported by AI technology. The project willContinue Reading
This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → In this week’s Media Briefing, Digiday’s executive editor of news Seb Joseph talks to publishers to find out what they think aboutContinue Reading
By Sara Guaglione • March 4, 2025 • Nearly half of journalists surveyed in a new report said they are using generative AI tools not approved or bought by their organization. That’s according to a survey by Trint, an AI transcription software platform, which asked producers, editors and correspondents fromContinue Reading
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