{"id":39054,"date":"2025-05-22T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/chatgpt-referral-traffic-to-publishers-sites-has-nearly-doubled-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:05:49","slug":"chatgpt-referral-traffic-to-publishers-sites-has-nearly-doubled-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/chatgpt-referral-traffic-to-publishers-sites-has-nearly-doubled-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT referral traffic to publishers\u2019 sites has nearly doubled this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT is sending more of its traffic to publishers\u2019 sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the traffic OpenAI\u2019s generative AI platforms send to external websites, 83% went to news and media sites in April, up from 64% in January, according to Similarweb data shared with Digiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Referral traffic from ChatGPT also <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/referral-traffic-from-ai-platforms-grows-despite-publishers-attempts-to-block-crawlers\/\">continues to grow<\/a> this year. ChatGPT sent 243.8 million visits to 250 news and media websites in April 2025, up 98% from 123.2 million visits this January, according to David Carr, senior insights manager at data analytics company Similarweb.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/chatgpt-referral-traffic-to-publishers-sites-has-nearly-doubled-this-year\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/newsletters\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT is sending more of its traffic to publishers\u2019 sites.\u00a0 Of the traffic OpenAI\u2019s generative AI platforms send to external websites, 83% went to news and media sites in April, up from 64% in January, according to Similarweb data shared with Digiday.\u00a0 Referral traffic from ChatGPT also continues to grow this year. ChatGPT sent 243.8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}