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🗓️ 18 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment for all of you podcast listeners out there, which we do every week. |
0:08.4 | So, you know, news sites are losing a lot of clicks. All the top news sites, you know, the big newspapers and websites, you know, whether it's New York Times, even the New York Post, |
0:24.2 | losing clicks like crazy because of AI. |
0:29.1 | Used to be in one of the news, you'd go to the New York Post.com. |
0:34.7 | If you're crazy, New York Times.com or even at FoxNews.com, all the great news sites or Politico or whatever. |
0:37.8 | But a lot of people, especially started with younger people, but whatever they do, eventually everybody else starts doing. |
0:43.9 | They're starting to use AI. |
0:45.4 | They just simply ask AI about something in the news, and AI comes up with the answer. |
0:50.7 | And sometimes AI will go through those news sites, but the problem is the news |
0:56.7 | site doesn't get credit for you clicking in and looking at it. So there's been a big drop on |
1:02.3 | news sites, even the Forbes, Huffington Post. Did you know there was still a Huffington Post? |
1:07.9 | Hit the hardest losing almost half of their traffic. Dailymail.com lost |
1:12.7 | 32% of its traffic. CNN lost 28% of traffic. Wall Street Journal suffered a almost 30% decline. |
1:21.9 | Fox News fell 24%. Again, more and more people using AI for this stuff and part of the problem is it's |
1:30.4 | google AI so a lot of people when they want uh they heard something in the news like you know you wake up |
1:36.9 | one morning connie francis has died so you google connie francis and then usually would take you to a list of |
1:44.0 | news sites and you'd click on one, |
1:46.4 | and the news site would get the click. |
1:47.8 | But now when they put it into Google, before you can do that, AI puts up the whole thing for you. |
1:53.0 | They've done it, and then you don't go to the news site. |
1:56.3 | So this is going to be a problem because all these news sites make all their money on these clicks. |
2:02.1 | Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, the feud continues. He threatened to take away her citizenship. |
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