Axios preps new Axios Direct feeds for AI models, agents as revenue tops 2026 goal

Axios reached its revenue goal for 2026. Now the news publisher is building a new revenue stream to keep up the pace in 2027 and beyond.

This month Axios will take to market Axios Direct, a new product that will provide Axios’s reporting in the form of content feeds that effectively take the concepts of a Bloomberg terminal and an RSS feed and update them for the agentic AI era. Axios Direct will eventually take the form of three separate feeds aimed at three types of customers, Axios chief revenue officer Jacquelyn Cameron said on stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit on Sept. 16 in Key Biscayne, Florida.

“We believe that there are three pathways where we could make net-new revenue impact to the bottom line,” Cameron said. “The first pathway is to working with clients who will take an action off of that information. We think of them as investment companies with high assets under management.”

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How women athletes are betting on the creator playbook

In 2026, being a pro athlete increasingly means being a full-time creator too. For women athletes in particular, content isn’t a side hustle; it’s become a crucial part of how they get paid, grow their sport, and set themselves up for life after competition.  

The attention is there, the paychecks aren’t. Revenues, viewership and brand interest in women’s sports are all climbing, but individual athletes are still fighting for fair pay and long-term security. A fast way to close some of that gap is to own an audience. That’s why companies like Togethxr are helping teach women athletes how to be creators, and those very same athletes are leaning on managers to help grow their creator careers.

And with the FIFA Women’s World Cup around the corner and the Summer Olympics around the next bend, it’s the perfect time for women athletes to lean into content.

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