AI Overviews Cutting Publisher Clickthrough Rates by 50%, New Report Finds

AI Overviews cutting publisher clickthrough rates by 50%, new report finds

Publishers are seeing a per-query clickthrough rate loss of almost 50% when AI Overviews appears, according to a new study. The research, by SEO agency Authoritas, measures the impact of AI Overviews on UK publishers’ web traffic, assessing the clickthrough decline across both mobile and desktop. The findings have been submitted as part of a legal complaint to the UK’s competition watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the impact…

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Senate Bill Tries Again to Make AI Training Transparent – Publishers Weekly – OPUS IP

Senate Bill Tries Again to Make AI Training Transparent  Publishers Weekly