--- title: State of AI in Media & Publishing description: "A free monthly report on how AI is reshaping the publishing web: crawler policy, licensing, the AI already inside publisher infrastructure, and web performance. The download is always the newest edition." url: https://www.artificialpoets.com/resources/state-of-ai-in-media-and-publishing/ site: Artificial Poets type: a13s_content date: 2026-09-23T05:16:40+00:00 modified: 2026-09-23T14:36:02+00:00 author: Matias Sanchez Moises --- # State of AI in Media & Publishing ![](https://www.artificialpoets.com/wp-content/themes/a13s/assets/scenes/walled-city-wide.webp) September 2026 edition # State of AI in Media & Publishing A free monthly report on how AI is reshaping the publishing web, from crawler policy and licensing to the AI already running inside publisher infrastructure. Get the report ## Get the latest edition ## 56 pages. Every figure sourced. Inside the report Charts, tables and plain-language analysis you can take straight into a planning meeting. Each finding says where it came from and what that source can and cannot see. - **Measured, not surveyed** Technology fingerprints, public DNS records, robots.txt and llms.txt files, and Chrome’s real-user speed data. - **Read against the industry** Public reporting, deal announcements and court filings put each measurement in context. - **A new edition every month** The form always sends the newest edition, so the numbers you quote are current. Monthly report ## State of AI in Media & Publishing Stay ahead of the latest AI trends and insights in media and publishing. Subscribe and never miss an update. ## What’s inside this edition - **The external record** 2026 in eight storylines: Google Zero, the first content marketplaces, ChatGPT ads, new licensing deals and a wave of lawsuits. - **What media leaders said** The five postures publishers took toward AI, in the words of the executives who took them. - **The technology stack** What runs the publishing web, fingerprinted from live publisher homepages. - **AI inside the infrastructure** Verified AI-vendor enrollments, the AI readers actually meet on the page, and who blocks the crawlers. - **Web performance** Real-user Core Web Vitals for every publisher with field data, and what speed is worth in revenue. - **Infrastructure & the vendor ecosystem** Mail platforms, sender authentication and the vendor trail publishers leave in public DNS. - **The post-cookie readiness gap** Who has the consent and first-party data stack now that consent signals gate Google Ads revenue. - **Outlook** What to watch next, from crawler pricing to the shift from training deals to live retrieval. - **Methodology & sources** How the domain universe was built, what each measurement can and cannot see, and every source cited. Monthly report ## State of AI in Media & Publishing Stay ahead of the latest AI trends and insights in media and publishing. Subscribe and never miss an update. Free monthly report ## Get the September edition 56 pages on AI in media and publishing, free, and always the newest edition when you ask for it.