Every publisher strategy deck now has a slide on diversification, and the reasoning is sound. Google referrals are shrinking, so publishers are building ...

Media companies face a difficult growth equation. Expanding content and audience reach does not necessarily translate into stronger financial returns, ...

Publishers are accustomed to hearing bad news about trust in journalism. But Gallup's latest findings offer a glimmer of improvement: 33% of Americans now ...

DCN’s Q3 2026 Digital Subscription Tracking Report finds that household subscription spending continues to rise, largely because of higher prices.

Early audience growth provides a starting point for evaluating a new editorial product. For media executives, the next question is whether that interest ...

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: NiemanLab | ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker ...

For publishers, it has long seemed obvious that when AI answers a user’s question directly, there is less reason to click through to the source. Over the past year, research has repeatedly confirmed ...

Podcast powerhouse Goalhanger attracted more than 1.8 billion views and streams across its audio, video and social content in 2025. More than 250,000 people also pay for membership clubs attached to ...

Young audiences divide their attention across more platforms and content formats than any previous generation. Yet their sports interest appears to be growing even as their consumption becomes more ...

The ends can’t justify the means. This was my major takeaway in reading the Summary Judgement cross-motions filed Friday in rapid fire order by the defendant Big AI companies (OpenAI and Microsoft) ...

Vertical video has broken free of social platforms: here’s how publishers are bringing the format onto their own properties to build direct audience habits. For as long as vertically-oriented video ...