Publishing Sector Scorecard Q1 2024 Update - Thematic Intelligence

AI continues to disrupt the publishing industry, and thus, the theme appears to be where the most progress is happening. To cope with the winds of change, publishers are holding AI-related conferences, building AI teams, and enhancing their offerings with AI, including launching new AI features like chatbots to improve user experiences.

Despite its benefits, AI remains a double-edged sword for the industry. A major problem regarding AI is copyright, and publishers are taking steps to protect their content from AI’s unauthorized, free use. However, different publishers have different ways of tackling this issue. Publishers like News Corp and IAC considered forming alliances to take legal action against leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI. The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for AI-related copyright issues. Other companies chose to strike deals with the AI giants to license the use of their content in exchange for payment or AI assistance.

Scope

This sector scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the publishing sector over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their industry landscape.

Reasons to Buy

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• The publisher has developed a unique thematic methodology for ranking all major companies in all major sectors based on their relative strength in the big themes that are impacting their industries.

Our thematic engine tags over 180 million data items across six alternative data sets-patents, jobs, deals, filings, social media, and news-to themes. The vast datasets within our thematic engine help our analysts to produce sector scorecards that identify the companies best placed to succeed in a future filled with multiple disruptive threats.