Axios preps new Axios Direct feeds for AI models, agents as revenue tops 2026 goal
Axios reached its revenue goal for 2026. Now the news publisher is building a new revenue stream to keep up the pace in 2027 and beyond.
This month Axios will take to market Axios Direct, a new product that will provide Axios’s reporting in the form of content feeds that effectively take the concepts of a Bloomberg terminal and an RSS feed and update them for the agentic AI era. Axios Direct will eventually take the form of three separate feeds aimed at three types of customers, Axios chief revenue officer Jacquelyn Cameron said on stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit on Sept. 16 in Key Biscayne, Florida.
“We believe that there are three pathways where we could make net-new revenue impact to the bottom line,” Cameron said. “The first pathway is to working with clients who will take an action off of that information. We think of them as investment companies with high assets under management.”
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