Insights, strategies, and stories from the NextNet AI team.
On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare flipped a default that touches a large slice of the web. Training and Agent crawlers are now blocked on ad-supported pages for new domains and…
Somebody on your team has asked the question by now. “What schema do we need to add so ChatGPT picks…
Every year or so a new file shows up at the root of publisher sites, and this cycle’s file is…
Every competitive report you have ever read starts from the same assumption: somebody is winning. Pick a topic, and one…
On August 31, 2026, Google finished rolling out a report that site owners had been asking about for two years.…
Every few weeks another headline lands: a publisher sues an AI company, an AI company calls the claim meritless, and…
Every AI product you have used this year runs on content somebody else made. The answer engine that summarized a…
Ask a publisher whether AI is using their content and the answer is almost always yes. Ask them how, and…
In May 1846 five New York newspapers that hated each other agreed to split the cost of a horse. The…
For thirty years the web has run on one assumption: if you can point to something, you can get to…
