apnews.com
As of Nov 6, 2026, apnews.com's ads.txt lists 311 seller lines across 73 ad systems, its robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, and 6 more, and its DMARC policy is reject.
Checked daily since Oct 31, 2026. JSON. Link to this check. Run this site? Remove or correct this report.
Checked Nov 6, 2026, 21:35 UTC
| File | Status | What the robot saw | Same since |
|---|---|---|---|
| ads.txt | REMOVED | 311 seller lines, 73 ad systems. 2 changes since Nov 6. See the changes | 2026-11-06 |
| app-ads.txt | SUCCESS | 123 seller lines, 49 ad systems. | 2026-11-03, first check |
| sellers.json | RESTRICTED | The site turned the robot away. No good check yet. 21 lines have no matching seller at appnexus.com, blis.com, freewheel.tv, google.com, and 4 more. Evidence 118 lines not judged: the ad system's sellers.json could not be read. | |
| robots.txt | SUCCESS | 10 rules for 10 AI crawlers. Blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, and 6 more. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| llms.txt | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| DMARC | SUCCESS | p=reject. Reports on. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| MTA-STS | UNAVAILABLE | Name did not resolve. No good check yet. UNAVAILABLE, NOT AN ABSENCE | |
| BIMI | EMPTY | Read. Nothing inside. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| security.txt | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. | 2026-11-06, first check |
apnews.com changed its ad sellers on Nov 6. Publisher Watch finds changes like this across 8,118 publishers. One email a day.
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