Apr 2, 2026
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6 min read
Independent creators weren't invited to the News/Media Alliance licensing deal that pays publishers when AI cites their content
Mar 26, 2026
7 min read
Plus: AI pays Disney millions: the two-tier content economy is here - creators are on the wrong side of the deal
Mar 19, 2026
How one creator turned 870K YouTube subs into 5,200 paying Substack members.
Mar 12, 2026
Publishers celebrating Discover growth are missing the point: you're trading search intent for algorithmic dependency with zero guarantees
Mar 5, 2026
Sealed court docs + creator capital markets = the business model shift nobody's talking about
Feb 26, 2026
8 min read
The publishers growing revenue right now aren't fighting Google. They're routing around it.
Feb 19, 2026
The IAB's bill won't save you. Here's what actually works when LLMs scrape your content.
Feb 12, 2026
5 min read
While creators chase AI traffic, the platforms are measuring 'utility' vs. human relevance-and only one pays
Feb 5, 2026
Cloudflare’s AI licensing turns ownership into infrastructure rent, shifting control and margins away from publishers and into CDN infrastructure layers.
Jan 29, 2026
280 executives see search falling and drop the content that builds equity
Jan 22, 2026
WordPress's 20-year SEO advantage just became an extraction liability worth billions to AI companies and zero to you.
Jan 15, 2026
Food52 lost $294M by forgetting why readers showed up
Jan 9, 2026
Why spotting trends early means nothing if you don’t own the infrastructure that compounds them.
Jan 2, 2026
$37bn proves creator marketing works. What it does not prove is that creators capture any lasting value from it.
Dec 25, 2025
You can block OpenAI and Anthropic. You cannot block Google’s AI without losing search traffic.
Dec 18, 2025
AI cuts clicks and over-crawls your content. Only controlled WordPress archives keep real leverage.
Dec 12, 2025
Why creators are quitting and why owned systems like email still win.
Dec 4, 2025
How creators scale by owning distribution instead of renting it.
Nov 27, 2025
Reels generates the same revenue as YouTube. One shares 55% with creators. The other shares nothing.
Nov 20, 2025
Chrome went from 2.8% to 31% market share in four years. Agentic browsers could move faster. And platform-dependent creators won't see it coming.
Nov 13, 2025
Nov 6, 2025
Audacy proves podcast ads convert at 76%. But creators split revenue with platforms and build zero equity.
Oct 30, 2025
It's not better content. It's trust infrastructure sitting front-and-center on every product page—SSL certificates, transparent...
Oct 23, 2025
Celebrity partnerships fail without systems. Beckham’s IM8 shows how to fix that with recurring billing.
Oct 16, 2025
Food bloggers fight back. Here's their playbook.
