publishers

The Information reported on 29 September that Google's AI contribution pilot pays about 100 publishers, from under $1,000 to over $1 million a year.

UNIFY Group said on 10 September that it has exclusive rights to buy the French science titles Sciences et Avenir and La Recherche from LVMH.

Similarweb counted about $113m of paid search spending by the top 100 media publishers in July 2026, 41% more than a year earlier.

Groupe Le Monde has seen no sudden audience drop since Google's AI Overviews reached France in July 2026, CEO Louis Dreyfus said on September 8. Le Monde gained 24,000 subscribers a month in July and August.

Sky News on September 10, 2026 launched Defence Insider, a paid video app on defense and security priced at £14.99 a month. It is the broadcaster's first paid product on a single subject.

USA Today is cutting jobs and replacing its audience team with three desks, blaming pressure on search traffic.

Google announced WeatherNext 3 on 3 September and put it behind weather answers in Search, Maps and the Gemini app.

The US Justice Department has asked a New York court to rule for OpenAI. It says training language models on news articles is fair use.

Google is switching AdSense to begin-to-render counting on 17 February 2027. Ads that download but never appear will stop counting.

Judge Leonie Brinkema will not force Google to sell its ad exchange. Instead she ordered changes to how the auctions work, and the two sides have 30 days to file a final judgment.

Poland's regulator UKE will not decide until 26 December how much Google should pay press publishers. A second publishers' group has filed its own claim, worth about 514 million zloty a year.