Case Study
The Telegraph Protected Digital Journalism from AI Scrapers
Telegraph Media Group strengthened its digital publishing platform by partnering with Akamai to combat unauthorized AI content scraping, secure APIs, and improve operational efficiency. As AI crawlers increasingly harvested journalism without permission, the publisher faced lost traffic, reduced subscription opportunities, and growing infrastructure costs. Using Akamai Content Protector, App & API Protector, EdgeWorkers, and TrafficPeak, The Telegraph gained visibility into the AI crawler ecosystem, blocked aggressive scraping bots, and secured more than 300 APIs supporting subscriber services and payments. EdgeWorkers transformed redirect management by reducing deployment times from minutes to seconds, while TrafficPeak centralized log analysis to accelerate troubleshooting and reveal val
