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Catching and Keeping Audience in the New Web

Attention is easier to catch than ever in the AI discovery era. Keeping it? That’s the hard part.

This month’s Into the New looks at the quiet shift happening under publishers’ feet: success is no longer just being found — it’s creating a reason to stay.

Jason Greene uses a sharp analogy to explain what happens when publishers optimize for capture but ignore retention, and he offers a clear framework for pairing both effectively.

For Jason Greene’s full take on catching and keeping audiences in the New Web, click here: Read More

Into the New – Jason Greene

THE HOT FIXES
Amsive | Admiral | Optable | Retention.com

Relevance? Amsive powers the capture side of the equation. As discovery shifts toward LLM summaries and answer engines, publishers need content that’s not just strong editorially but structured to be found and interpreted correctly. Amsive helps teams scale AEO-ready output with the right technical spine; ensuring stories surface with clarity, authority, and speed in the new discovery layer.

The Hot Fix: Amsive

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Core features:

Digital Strategy, Media Planning, Technical SEO

Chain Reaction: 🔗 If AEO is the net that makes the bite possible, Amsive helps publishers tie it correctly — and deploy it at scale.

Relevance? Admiral maps to the “keep” side of the system. Once attention lands, retention hinges on whether the experience feels worth staying — and worth returning to. Admiral helps publishers reduce friction at the exact moments that audiences drop: paywall confusion, adblock leakage, consent falloff, or messy subscription paths. The result is more sessions that turn into relationships, not bounces.

The Hot Fix: Admiral

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Core features:

Subscriptions, Paywalls, Adblock Recovery

Chain Reaction: 🔗 Amsive helps win the click; Admiral helps convert that click into a habit.

Relevance? Optable supports the activation layer after capture + keep. As publishers build deeper, more habitual audiences, the next unlock is making those relationships usable across partners and channels — without compromising privacy. Optable’s clean rooms and identity graph let teams enrich and deploy audiences collaboratively, turning durable attention into durable leverage.

The Hot Fix: Optable

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Core features:

Clean Rooms, Identity Graph, Audience Platform

Chain Reaction: 🔗 Once the net holds, Optable helps you use what you caught — safely, everywhere it matters.

Relevance? Retention.com sits right at the hinge of the catch-and-keep. In an AI discovery world, more of your traffic arrives anonymously and leaves just as fast — unless you can convert that first visit into a repeatable channel. Retention.com helps publishers identify anonymous visitors and turn arrival into subscription, growing email audiences that anchor habit and lift lifetime value over time.

The Hot Fix: Retention.com

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Core features:

Email Subscriptions, Subscriber Growth, Identity Resolution

Chain Reaction: 🔗 AEO gets the trout to bite. Retention.com helps keep it in the bucket by making sure there’s a next visit.

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