Case Study: U.S. News & World Report protects online intellectual property and reduces IT overhead with Akamai Bot Manager (Akamai Technologies)

U.S. News & World Report Protects its Online Intellectual Property and Reduces IT Overhead with Akamai Bot Manager

U.S. News & World Report, a multi-platform publisher best known for its authoritative rankings, attracts over 30 million monthly visitors but faced a growing problem with automated bots scraping and republishing its content. That unauthorized reuse diverted organic search traffic, threatened advertising and sponsorship revenue, and forced engineers to manually analyze logs to identify and block offenders while coping with rapid year‑over‑year growth.

U.S. News deployed Akamai Bot Manager at the CDN edge, a turnkey solution that preserved caching and provided real‑time bot visibility without re‑architecting infrastructure. The solution prevented web scraping to protect ad revenue, enabled acquisition of more sensitive healthcare data, reduced management overhead by about 25%, and offloaded at least 20% of origin load—helping the site scale cost‑effectively.

U.S. News & World Report

Matt Kupferman

Senior Director of Engineering