Media Briefing: AI payouts may be entering a new era 

In this week’s Media Briefing, Digiday senior media editor Jessica Davies looks at how the AI compensation model is evolving beyond flat-fee licensing, with options like pay-per-crawl and pay-per-query starting to emerge as ways for publishers to monetize AI bot traffic.

• Pay-per-query vs. pay-per-crawl
• The media’s “traffic apocalypse,” Bloomberg cuts newsroom staff, and more.

AI compensation is evolving — and new models, not just publisher demands, are driving the shift beyond flat-fee licensing.

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