‘The Big Bang has happened’: Reach gets proactive on AI-era referrals, starting with subscriptions

A year of painful cuts and strategic shifts has reshaped Reach’s business. Next year, the publisher wants to show it can punch back in an AI-driven market.

This week, the publisher of national U.K. titles Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star, is rolling out its first paid digital subscriptions — a big departure from the free, ad-funded model it’s had throughout its 120-year history.

It’s the first in a string of changes planned within the publisher, which includes reshaping its newsroom more acutely around video production — all changes designed to safeguard its presence in the AI era, where referral traffic no longer helps pay the bills. 

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Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co, Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts

More publishers have joined the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Collective AI licensing framework, designed to standardize how publishers tell AI systems what content they can use, and how they must pay.

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media have joined the growing list of publishers supporting the framework, Digiday has learned.

The RSL Collective now has over 50 partners, co-founder Doug Leeds told Digiday. People Inc., Ziff Davis, Yahoo, Reddit, Medium and Quora had already joined the RSL Collective when it launched in September. The partnerships are non-exclusive.

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