{"id":40965,"date":"2025-07-10T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/media-briefing-ai-payouts-may-be-entering-a-new-era\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:04:42","slug":"media-briefing-ai-payouts-may-be-entering-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/media-briefing-ai-payouts-may-be-entering-a-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Briefing: AI payouts may be entering a new era\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Pay-per-query vs. pay-per-crawl<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s \u201ctraffic apocalypse,\u201d Bloomberg cuts newsroom staff, and more.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New ways emerge to make money from AI bot traffic<\/h2>\n<p>AI compensation is evolving \u2014 and new models, not just publisher demands, are driving the shift beyond flat-fee licensing.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/media-briefing-ai-payouts-may-be-entering-a-new-era\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Continue reading it on digiday.com<\/a> and subscribe to continue reading content like this.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201ctraffic apocalypse,\u201d Bloomberg cuts newsroom staff, and more. New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}