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Rich is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Glide Publishing Platform, building on his editorial and publishing experience to shape our vision to make publishing easier for anyone to do well. Rich worked in newspapers, magazines, and digital publishing for over 20 years before embarking on our shared quest to remove technical hurdles from content and media teams so they can get on with telling great stories.
AI firms facing US lawsuits for content theft are hunting compliant politicians worldwide to create global loopholes on copyright and AI training exemptions. Australia is the latest stop on the tour.
Oct 15, 2026
Inside the story of a media turnaround success story as Hello! emerged from industry-wide Google Discover downturns stronger than before.
Aug 14, 2026
Western AI's Big Three are making the same mistakes Detroit's Big Three made in the 1970s. Chinese open-weight models are cheaper, getting better, and hard to beat. Where does that leave us users?
Aug 6, 2026
When AI bots turn hard-earned trust into fiction, publishers and media brands are the ones which face the fall out
Jul 30, 2026
Two events this week could have long term consequences for how the future of AI and content thievery plays out. As well as being very entertaining to watch unfold.
Jul 16, 2026
Trust is the new currency, the traffic era is over, AI is a tool, not a strategy. Eight themes that connected every session at Glide Live: London, and define what publishers need to act on now.
Jul 1, 2026
£1.4m from email marketing alone, 29 videos over 1M views, 58% of under-35s follow sport through clips not matches. How sports organisations built content operations that publishers can learn from.
Jul 1, 2026
How seeing a reader three times in a week led to a 78% "stick around" rate. Puzzles, personality-driven newsletters, and why frequency of return beat page views for publisher retention.
Jul 1, 2026
One scientific publisher saw 5.7 billion bot requests in 16 days, and an AI site scraped a drug formulary and recommended a fatal child dosage. Two trust-critical brands discuss where AI helps, where it harms, and where it cannot be used.
Jul 1, 2026
AI licensing, agentic commerce, the robots.txt billing tactic, and why direct traffic to trusted brands is growing. This is how publishers are replacing pageview-dependent revenue.
Jul 1, 2026
Google still sends 33,000 clicks per second to publishers - but AI Overviews have killed commodity content. What to make of it all? Barry Adams, Steven Wilson-Beales, and Harry Clarkson-Bennett on what works now.
Jul 1, 2026
News, specialist, and sports brand publishers gathered behind closed doors in London to talk about how they are defending against AI rivals, falling trust amongst populations generally, and fading reliance on search and social.
Jul 1, 2026
