Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit, Sept. ‘26 ‘Google Zero’ edition
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Publishers debate zero-click search, AI licensing contracts and AI visibility at the Digiday Publishing Summit town hall.
This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers said about search traffic declines, opaque AI licensing contracts and monetizing AI visibility during closed-door town hall sessions at the Digiday Publishing Summit, held in Miami this week.
Publishers know the old playbook is breaking. Search traffic is shrinking, AI platforms are increasingly intermediating audiences and the mass-traffic, programmatic advertising model that powered much of the digital publishing ecosystem is losing steam. What’s far less clear is what comes next — or how publishers ensure they get paid fairly in the process.
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