Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit, March 2025 referral traffic edition

This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers had to say about referral traffic (which, spoiler alert, is as volatile as ever) during the Digiday Publishing Summit’s closed-door town hall sessions.

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The volatility of referral traffic is nothing new for publishers. Media executives had a lot to say about their frustration with declining traffic in a closed-door town hall session during the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, this week — lamenting about everything from trying to make sense of Google’s Search and Discover platforms to the expansion of the tech giant’s AI Overviews feature.

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