Revenue
How The New York Times bundled its way past 11 million digital subscribers
Michael Hayes · August 24, 2026
Business News
Business news relevant to anyone earning money from published work: advertising market forecasts and spending shifts, platform and streaming results, copyright litigation and licensing settlements, and regulation touching data or distribution. Each item states the likely effect on rates, reach or contract terms over the coming quarters.
Revenue
The New York Times raised prices for loyal subscribers, and ARPU followed
Michael Hayes · August 21, 2026
Business News
How Google Discover picks stories, and why publishers can't game it directly
Discover runs on the same ranking signals as Search, not a separate optimization channel — which is why the traffic it sends is real, personalized, and mostly outside a publisher's control.
Michael Hayes · August 10, 2026
Business News
Structuring a small newsroom's product team: what to build, buy and skip
A newsroom under fifty people does not need a Silicon Valley product org — it needs one embedded owner, two or three priorities and ruthless restraint on tooling.
Michael Hayes · August 5, 2026
Technology
How ads.txt protects publisher ad revenue, and where fraud still gets through
Michael Hayes · August 5, 2026