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01Paying to reach curious readers in 2026: ChatGPT ads, feed ads, paid newsletter recommendations, and the labelling rulesChatGPT now sells self-serve ads, but they cost about 3–8× more per impression than feed ads and are hard to measure, so the cheapest curious readers are still on Meta and Reddit. An ad can be the whole useful answer and still carry its label: the rules draw the line at fake people and hidden sponsors, not at ads that are worth reading.ArticleAttention & feeds66 quotes · 1 source · 11 min11 Oct

02How YouTube, Instagram and TikTok rank video in 2026: satisfaction signals, AI content understanding, and penalties for repostingRecommendation feeds have stopped scoring behaviour alone. A language model now watches the content and judges it — better than the crowd-sourced raters it replaced — while reposting is penalised in the ranking itself. Much of what creators are taught describes the system of a decade ago.ArticleAttention & feeds43 quotes · 1 source · 8 min10 Oct

03Why people keep scrolling: habit, infinite feeds, and the evidence against the dopamine explanationThe best evidence says people keep scrolling because of habit and a feed that never ends — not because of a dopamine jackpot. And engagement-ranked feeds keep showing people what they say they do not want.ArticleAttention & feeds38 quotes · 1 source · 8 min9 Oct

04Does a daily digest beat an endless feed?No peer-reviewed study I found directly tests a daily digest.Open problemAttention & feedsOpen9 Oct

05The infinite-scroll trial nobody ranNo randomised trial compares infinite scroll with pagination on time spent or wellbeing. One review of the evidence says it looked and found none.Open problemAttention & feedsOpen3 Oct

06Frontier Scan: The Agent Is Now the Audience, and Right Now It Reads Merchant Feeds, Not CreatorsFrontier #1 (agents) matters most, and it changes the pass-six plan. Profound's tracking found feed-sourced ChatGPT picks jumping from 8.26% to 61.54% on 10 July 2026. OpenAI retired in-chat Instant Checkout in March 2026.…ResearchAttention & feeds40 figures · 100 sources27 Sep

07Project Ancaster: What Influencer Advertising Systems Teach an Indie Ad Network — Strategy Memo (September 2026)Ancaster's best move into the creator economy is not a new influencer marketplace.ResearchBuild briefAttention & feeds58 figures · 10 sourcesSep

08What Makes an Attribution Paradigm Shift — and Whether One Is Available to Ancaster in 2026No shift on the scale of CPM→CPC→CPA is available for Ancaster to cause today.ResearchAttention & feeds15 figures · 9 sourcesSep

09A Public "Accept-the-Offer" Work Platform: Does It Exist, and Is It Crazy?Pieces of it already run at scale around the world, from India's rural job guarantee to a fully evaluated universal job guarantee in Austria.ResearchAttention & feeds23 figures · 8 sourcesSep

10Ancaster Interstitial Standard v1: Interactive Pages, Partner-Powered Components, and Feed-Native OffersElevenLabs voice), placed between the creator's endorsement and one dominant disclosed affiliate CTA.ResearchAttention & feeds51 figures · 183 sourcesSep

11Ancaster Pass 12: The Functional Toolset and the Integration MapIt should hand everything else to the platforms creators already use, through five native integrations (Stripe, Kit, beehiiv, Ghost, YouTube) plus a webhooks/Zapier/MCP layer.ResearchResearch passAttention & feeds23 figures · 172 sourcesSep

12The Publisher Funnel: Turning a Creator's Affiliate Links into Creator-Owned Funnels — Eighth Research Pass for AncasterA publisher-owned funnel is worth building, but not for the reason the affiliate gurus give.ResearchResearch passAttention & feeds54 figures · 119 sourcesSep

13Ancaster Pass 11: The Indie SaaS Advertiser Side — Buyer Reality, Tools, Pricing and the CascadeIndie founders will not pay Ancaster to track affiliates, because tracking is already a $19–$49/month commodity and free inside several merchant-of-record platforms.ResearchResearch passAttention & feeds86 figures · 192 sourcesSep

14The State of Algorithmic Quality, AI Content Assessment, and Discovery Alternatives (June 2026)AI content-understanding models (including Gemini and multimodal models) are running inside production recommendation systems, not just moderation or search.ResearchAttention & feeds16 figures · 3 sourcesJun