The Gist
- AI search threatens content-driven traffic. World History Encyclopedia saw a 25% traffic drop after appearing in Google’s AI Overviews, sparking alarm for publishers.
- Google’s ‘deal’ with publishers is breaking. Jan van der Crabben says the implicit value exchange between publishers and Google is no longer mutual — and AI tools like ChatGPT are even worse.
- Time to rethink discovery strategy. Van der Crabben is shifting toward memberships, book publishing, and AI-resistant…
Article Source
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/ai-took-my-readers-inside-a-publishers-traffic-collapse/
