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AI search is pushing publishers toward a new business model
The economics of digital publishing are being rewritten at a pace few anticipated. In early 2026, Forbes reported that more than 60 percent of Google searches ended without a single click to an external website, according to various analyses. This…
Reebok Taps Cult London Publisher Idea for Glow-in-the-dark Club C 85
Reebok is teaming with cult London publisher and design studio Idea on a new take on the court shoe model Club C 85. Dubbed Reebok x Idea Club C 85, the project applied Idea's eye to the classic Reebok style. It comes with an Idea-designed upper in…
ADWEEK Tech Advantage: Publishers Pull Back from Google AI Search, While Creators Push On
The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry's top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what's next. Get your ticket. ADWEEK Advantage is part of a series where every month, our top editors interpret…
Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6, will hold its Q1 FY2027 results call on Friday, August 7, and I don't mean to sound alarmist or over-excited but I think something might be happening. Allow me to explain. Part of my job…
Transparency row after council ordered to publish fraud report
Secrecy fears at City Hall have resurfaced as Bristol City Council was ordered to publish a fraud report looking into a company linked to the former deputy mayor. Council legal bosses initially told councillors they could not see the report, before…
EA's Saudi takeover will be 'a real waste' if it turns the publishers into a 'sequel-and-mega-franchise machine', Helldivers 2 studio boss says
Well, it's happened. EA's thumbs up from the European Commission, the $55 billion leveraged buyout by Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners has gone through. With the publishers now privately owned…
Live blogging mastery: Tips for publishers from Guardian's Andrew Sparrow
Publishers looking to succeed in live blogs need to focus on “intensely newsy” topics and write with personality, according to The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow. The reporter has written a live blog on politics for the publisher since…
publishing a book and starting kindergarten
Hi! Woah. I leave for the East Coast to start my Make It Fast (please for the love of ME, pre-order it!!!) book tour in less than 48 hours. My literary agent just called to check in on my mental state and I'll tell you what I told her— I'm…
Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in - New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon
A new report from The Verg e suggests Microsoft is working to bring an unprecedented level of backwards compatibility to its upcoming PC-console hybrid, the Xbox Helix. The outlet obtained leaked screenshots of an internal memo allegedly sent to…
Senators warn that prediction market betting on wildfires may influence arson
A group of Democratic US senators has warned that betting on wildfires may increase the risk of arson as several states fight unprecedented blazes. The boom of prediction markets, where people can bet on the outcome of future events, and the…
JJ McCarthy Trade Prediction Market Continues Trending Up
The longer the Minnesota Vikings training camp goes on, the more Kalshi leans toward a JJ McCarthy trade. Kalshi's NFL trade market currently gives McCarthy an 80% chance of a move. His 80% trade price is up 7% in just over a week. In that same…
Bladen Community College to host local author expo, self-publishing workshop
BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Bladen Community College's Small Business Center, in partnership with the Friends of the Bladen County Public Library, will host a local author expo and self-publishing event on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the college's…
92 of today's 100 fastest-growing Claude Code skills come from three publishers
I pulled the 100 fastest-growing Claude Code skills this morning (August 5 data, ranked by installs added in the last day). 92 of them belong to exactly three publishers. 54 rows are the Lark suite (published under open.feishu.cn and larksuite) 31…
The next ad market may be built for machines
For publishers who make their money through advertising, it's difficult to see bots as anything other than a threat. They crawl their content, chop it up into machine readable code, and then serve up the information as context in AI summaries…
Prediction market users wager millions on Maine elections
On June 10, Tom Hill was at his office in Sydney, Australia, when his phone pinged with a notification: the U.S. Senate Democratic primary race in Maine had been called. Before trading closed, Hill quickly bought stakes on the financial trading…
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