Associated Press

===Web resources===
The AP's multi-topic structure has resulted in web portals such as [[Yahoo!]] and [[MSN]] posting its articles, often relying on the AP as their first source for news coverage of breaking news items. This and the constant updating evolving stories require has had a major impact on the AP's public image and role, giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. In 2007, Google announced that it was paying to receive AP content, to be displayed in [[Google News]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Google News Becomes A Publisher |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |quote='Because the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, U.K. Press Association and the Canadian Press don't have a consumer Web site where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers,' Josh Cohen, business product manager for Google News, explained in a blog post. |work=[[Information Week]] |date=August 31, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627154658/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |archive-date=June 27, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute.<ref>{{cite news |title=Google Stops Hosting New AP Content |url=http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |access-date=2010-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112081900/http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |archive-date=12 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Google, AP reach deal for Google News content|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|publisher=[[CNET]]|date=August 30, 2010|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200432/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

A 2017 study by [[NewsWhip]] revealed that AP content was more engaged with on [[Facebook]] than content from any individual English-language publisher.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|title=AP content drives more Facebook engagements than individual publishers in June, July|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407053939/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|archive-date=2018-04-07|url-status=live}}</ref>