Jessica Davies

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Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it's working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents

By: Jessica Davies

Le Monde blocks almost every bot that tries to hit its site. Now it's starting to think about what happens when its paying readers show up via AI agents instead of a browser.

Digiday

How a German publisher JV is turning LLM visibility into a premium brand buy

By: Jessica Davies

Publishers spent years learning how to engineer Google. Now they're trying to do the same for AI answers – and sell it as a brand product.

Digiday

Media Briefing: Inside publishers’ real Cannes agenda – AI money vs agentic hype

By: Sara Guaglione, Jessica Davies

Publishers want to know who is going to pay for the open web in an AI world, and whether agentic media buying is a real fix.

CDP Institute

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Beware of Outlandish GDPR Claims

By: Jessica Davies

Uncharted waters are something the digital media industry should be used to by now. But the

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Media Briefing: Declared ‘good bots,' mixed-use crawlers, gray scrapers – how AI accesses publisher content

By: Jessica Davies

This week's Media Briefing looks at how AI crawlers now reach publisher content, one year after Cloudflare's default bot changes.

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WTF is SPUR’s publisher-run Content Telemetry Framework?

By: Jessica Davies

SPUR is publisher‑run and fixated on turning AI’s use of content from scraping into a transparent, usage‑based licensing system they control.

Digiday

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 as AI search choked the open web

By: Jessica Davies

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 of 2026 as AI era, zero‑click search choked the flow of traffic to news and other open‑web sites, according

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WTF is LLM honeypotting?

By: Jessica Davies

Publishers and e-commerce brands under siege from AI crawlers are starting to fight back with an old security trick updated for the LLM era: “LLM honeypotting.”

Digiday

Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with that

By: Jessica Davies

For many large publishers, the court's refusal to force a Google AdX breakup didn't land as a shock, or even much of a defeat.

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Google rolls out pay-per-use AI licensing program to publishers

By: Jessica Davies, Sara Guaglione

Google has been quietly scaling a pay-per-use AI licensing scheme for publishers. But critics say the program looks less like a meaningful payout and more like a legal fig leaf.