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ScalePost launches About page with team and advisors, announces Awin partnership

ScalePost's about page now lists CEO Ahmed Malik, Head of Partnerships Gregory Love, engineers Matt Rkiouak and Siméon Ferez, and advisors including Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, former Fast Company CEO Eric Schurenberg, and CNBC founder Tom Rogers. The page also features a press release about a partnership with Awin to expand discovery intelligence.

Awin Expands Discovery Intelligence with AI Visibility

Awin announced on 1 July 2026 a set of platform enhancements and a new partnership to measure and improve brand visibility inside AI-driven discovery experiences. The global marketing-technology company revealed a collaboration with ScalePost and additional collaborations with Peec.ai and Profound to capture first-party AI citation data and link those signals to conversion metrics. Awin is launching platform features including “AI Visibility” and “Smart Search” to show when and how brands appear in AI applications, help publishers understand their contribution to discovery, and speed publisher partner selection via natural-language search. The move responds to rising “zero-click” AI answers in search and aims to give advertisers clearer, first-party measurement of AI-driven discovery across the customer journey.

• Awin announced a partnership with ScalePost to capture first-party AI citation data and improve visibility into AI-driven brand discovery.
• Awin introduced new platform features named AI Visibility and Smart Search to measure brand appearances in AI applications and simplify publisher partner discovery.
• Awin said linking first-party citation data with its conversion signals can raise observed engagement by three- to six-fold.

Awin Expands Discovery Intelligence with ScalePost Partnership

Awin announced a partnership with ScalePost and a set of platform enhancements aimed at measuring and acting on AI-driven brand discovery. The company introduced capabilities named AI Visibility and Smart Search to show when brands are surfaced in AI-driven experiences and to help advertisers find publisher partners using natural-language prompts. ScalePost will act as an additional measurement layer, using first‑party data to record real AI citations. Awin also cited collaborations with Peec.ai and Profound to broaden influence measurement across the customer journey, and claimed that accounting for AI interactions can increase observed engagement by three to six times.

• Awin announced a partnership with ScalePost to improve measurement of AI-driven brand discovery.
• Awin introduced new platform features called AI Visibility and Smart Search to surface AI-driven discovery signals and speed partner discovery.
• ScalePost uses first‑party data to measure real AI citations and will act as an additional measurement layer.

European publishers face heavier AI bot scraping

TollBit's H1 2026 analysis of 3,906 publishers (456 European) using a >987 billion-visit dataset found a sharp rise in AI-powered scraping: more than 22 billion bot accesses, about 1.9 billion events that bypassed or ignored robots.txt, and scraping up ~20% from January to June. European sites endure roughly four times the median AI scrapes of North American peers and far fewer human referrals from AI apps; TollBit measured about 179 automated page fetches per human referral and the scrape-to-referral ratio climbed from 150:1 in Q1 to 227:1 in Q2. Only 0.05% of external referrals to the European cohort came from AI apps (Google supplied ~84%), and AI-driven referrals generate far fewer clicks. Tests of commercial scrapers retrieved content on nearly all tested sites. Cloudflare has started blocking training crawlers on new domains and plans finer bot classifications and paid access from September 2026.

• Scope: TollBit analyzed H1 2026 across 3,906 publishers (456 European) within a >987 billion-visit dataset and identified >22 billion AI-bot accesses.
• Europe disproportionately affected: median AI scrapes per site ~4x higher than North America; scraping rose ~20% Jan–Jun 2026; overall measured ratio ~179 bot fetches per human referral, rising from 150:1 in Q1 to 227:1 in Q2.
• Referrals: only 0.05% of external referrals to the European cohort came from AI applications; Google supplied ~84% of referrals; AI chatbot referrals generate far fewer click-throughs than classic search (~96% fewer reported).