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The 2025 Niche Revenue Benchmark report gives new metrics for rev@employee and title, plus the five top opportunities for niche publishers, and key tips from over-performers. Think you know niche media? This report will keep you up to date on where the industry is headed, with links to case studies on publishers who are overperforming. Leave with practical strategies to grow the most valuable revenue streams.

How Gardner Business Media deprioritized Google to create killer new revenue models

Gardner Business Media had spent a decade, involving editors,  consultants, full-time team members, and specialty software in an effort to appease Google Google search algorithms.

Then,  two years ago, after acting as a Beta Tester for Google's AI summaries, they had had enough.

"Google flipped the table on us," said  Kate Hand, Executive Vice President of Customer Success, who oversees web development and customer success departments for the historic B2B magazine group.

Hand refocused her teams on capturing audience opt-ins and data, using technology to fundamentally alter not only its audience strategy, but ultimately the revenue model, too. A new division, Grow, empowered by audience data acts as an engine to drives advertiser ROI. 

Their approach is paving the way for the rest of the industry. Here's how they did it.

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