Bauer Killed Most of Its German Websites and Named AI Search the Culprit
Bauer Media Group will close Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland on September 30, 2026, pulling the websites for Bravo, Cosmopolitan, and Autozeitung offline and eliminating roughly 160 digital publishing jobs. The official April 14 announcement names AI search as the cause, citing Ahrefs data showing AI Overview results now correlate with