What Meta's Canada news ban actually did to publisher traffic
Two years after links disappeared from Canadian feeds, the measurable result is a durable drop in social referrals — and a search-shaped hole most coverage never priced.
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Structuring a small newsroom's product team: what to build, buy and skip
A newsroom under fifty people does not need a Silicon Valley product org — it needs one embedded owner, two or three priorities and ruthless restraint on tooling.
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How ads.txt protects publisher ad revenue, and where fraud still gets through
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What a free newsletter subscriber is actually worth
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What Patreon, Substack, Ghost, and YouTube actually take from creator revenue
Four platforms publish four different fee structures. Here's what each one's own documentation says creators keep, before payment processing takes its own cut.
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Substack takes 10% of newsletter subscriptions; beehiiv and Ghost take none
Why Substack keeps 10% of subscriber revenue and two rivals keep 0%
YouTube raises new-channel monetization to 8,000 watch hours
Service providers now field over a million DMCA notices a day
The six elements a takedown notice needs, why a platform needs a registered copyright agent, and what actually happens once a subscriber counter-notices.
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What five years of product bundling did to The New York Times' subscriber math
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The May 2024 deal — reported at over $250 million over five years — created the template every publisher–AI negotiation since has worked from; here is what is actually in these agreements.
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The 2024 Gmail and Yahoo sender rules, two years on: what publishers changed and what still bites
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As third-party cookies finally fade and AI search eats anonymous traffic, logged-in reader data became the advertising and product asset publishers actually own.
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Sustainable cadence: how creators publish for years without burning out
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The correct first hire buys back the founder's hours at the highest revenue per hour — and the sequence that works is shorter than most creators think.
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The podcast ad market in numbers: growth, video's rise and what creators actually earn
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From YouTube's subscriber bonus to TikTok's creator fund replacement, platform payout programs have been cut, capped and restructured — the lesson is now a pattern, not an incident.
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How The New York Times bundled its way past 11 million digital subscribers
Editorial StaffThe New York Times raised prices for loyal subscribers, and ARPU followed
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