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Digital Publishers Firmly Focused on Growth as Attitudes to AI Mature, AOP Survey Reveals

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has released the ‘Digital Publishing: Outlook and Priorities for 2026’ report, summarising findings from its annual survey of digital publishers and solutions providers. The report reveals a strong focus on growth for the year ahead among digital publishers, while ESG initiatives continue to be deprioritised, and attitudes to AI are maturing.

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AOP Awards: 5 minutes with… Jacqui and Chris

Ahead of the March entries deadline for the AOP Digital Publishing Awards, InPublishing sat down with co-chairs Mail Metro Media’s Jacqui Merrington and TechFinitive’s Chris Cannon to get their thoughts on the state of the digital publishing sector – including emerging challenges and opportunities and where publishers should be focusing their attention. 

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AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2026 open for entries

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has announced its prestigious annual awards are now open for entries. The Digital Publishing Awards have returned, including three new categories for 2026, to celebrate the individuals and teams working to create, deliver, and monetise quality online content.

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Digital Publisher Revenues Hit Third Quarter of Consecutive Increases, AOP and Deloitte Data Reveals

The latest Digital Publishers’ Revenue Index (DPRI) from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and Deloitte reveals that participants’ revenues grew by 4.24% year-on-year (YoY), marking the third consecutive quarter of increases. Total revenues for the quarter were £159.73 million, with an even split between publishers that reported revenue growth and those that reported declines.

We should be more optimistic than ever about the future of publishing

Our MD, Richard Reeves, outlines just why we should be positive going into 2026, and how publishers can prioritise unique connections with audiences to drive a new, strengthened era for publishers.

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Ten underutilised strategies to deliver enhanced user personalisation

When we talk about personalisation, it’s easy to jump straight to content recommendations. But with the rapid jumps in publishing tech, there’s so much untapped potential that goes far beyond a bespoke sidebar. We reached out to our Associates to discover what publishers should be doing in 2026 and beyond to deliver more comprehensive personalised experiences for their users.

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AOP CRUNCH: Are curated audiences the future of premium publishing?

It feels appropriate that the title for our last AOP CRUNCH of 2025 was a question. Despite curation being second only to AI in this year’s industry discourse, much of how it works, whether it works, and who benefits remains unanswered. We invited publishers, agencies, and vendors to steer us all closer to a conclusion on curation, but it is clear that the scaffolding is not quite ready to come down and reveal a consensus. Curation remains a broad approach rather than a specific technical solution, and below you will find a range of perspectives on its potential and its pitfalls.

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Understanding the next chapter of digital publishing - Take part in our survey

The digital publishing industry is developing at breakneck speed in response to changes in technology, advertiser requirements, and societal change. We would be very grateful if you would just take a few minutes to take part in this short survey which is designed to build a picture of how publishers and the tech companies working with them are evolving product, editorial, sales and business strategies to build successful growth.

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Finding Your Voice: Secrets of Successful Audio and Video Content Strategy from AOP CRUNCH

At the AOP, we’re lucky to count genuine publishing pioneers amongst our members, hailing from the days when the great tech disruptor was the printing press. Now, publishers must be interdisciplinary, taking what once filled newspaper pages and disseminating it across social media, video platforms, podcasts, and wherever else audiences spend their time.