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💸 AI Scrapers Take 100% and Call It Infrastructure

May 14, 2026

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💸 AI Scrapers Take 100% and Call It Infrastructure

The scraper economy rebranded as "agentic infrastructure." The extraction math has not changed one bit.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
💼 Platform Fame Is a Sales Funnel, Not a Business

May 7, 2026

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💼 Platform Fame Is a Sales Funnel, Not a Business

TJ Palma built $1.2M in real estate revenue from platform fame - the followers were the funnel, not the product

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🎬 $50M Movie, Zero YouTube Distribution Rights

Apr 30, 2026

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4 min read

🎬 $50M Movie, Zero YouTube Distribution Rights

Even YouTube’s biggest creators can’t sell their own films

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🤖 AI Agents Are Browsing for You, But Your Site Can't Handle It

Apr 23, 2026

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🤖 AI Agents Are Browsing for You, But Your Site Can't Handle It

Every major browser now ships AI that acts on your behalf. Most websites are structurally broken for the shift.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚖️ AI Companies Are Finally Paying for Using Your Video Content

Apr 16, 2026

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7 min read

⚖️ AI Companies Are Finally Paying for Using Your Video Content

Copyright lawsuits trace creator videos to AI training datasets. Plus: Yoast adds free AI visibility scans for WP sites

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🚨 Why EmDash Isn't The 'Spiritual Sucessor To WordPress' - Yet

Apr 9, 2026

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7 min read

🚨 Why EmDash Isn't The 'Spiritual Sucessor To WordPress' - Yet

Cloudflare solves developer security — but skips the ownership, monetization, and exit questions publishers actually care about

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔑 Publishers Split Revenue 50-50 With AI - Creators Get Zero

Apr 2, 2026

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7 min read

🔑 Publishers Split Revenue 50-50 With AI - Creators Get Zero

Independent creators weren't invited to the News/Media Alliance licensing deal that pays publishers when AI cites their content

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
Cloudflare built the scraper it promised to block

Mar 26, 2026

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7 min read

Cloudflare built the scraper it promised to block

Plus: AI pays Disney millions: the two-tier content economy is here - creators are on the wrong side of the deal

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔗 YouTube Built the Audience. Substack Captured the Equity.

Mar 19, 2026

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7 min read

🔗 YouTube Built the Audience. Substack Captured the Equity.

How one creator turned 870K YouTube subs into 5,200 paying Substack members.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
Google Discover Drives 68% of News Traffic — That’s a Problem

Mar 12, 2026

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7 min read

Google Discover Drives 68% of News Traffic — That’s a Problem

Publishers celebrating Discover growth are missing the point: you're trading search intent for algorithmic dependency with zero guarantees

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
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