{"id":57476,"date":"2026-03-25T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/people-inc-s-jon-roberts-on-the-ai-licensing-boom-and-the-revenue-lag\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:09:48","slug":"people-inc-s-jon-roberts-on-the-ai-licensing-boom-and-the-revenue-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/people-inc-s-jon-roberts-on-the-ai-licensing-boom-and-the-revenue-lag\/","title":{"rendered":"People Inc.\u2019s Jon Roberts on the AI licensing boom \u2013 and the revenue lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in AI content licensing marketplaces has created a new wave of opportunities for publishers \u2014 just not much money yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a boom in companies who claim they will sell your content for money, and not yet a boom in the money from those deals. So there seems to be more of these marketplaces every minute. But not all of them are going to be meaningful,\u201d Jon Roberts, chief innovation officer at People Inc., said onstage on Monday as the keynote speaker at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>As tech companies develop AI licensing marketplaces for publishers\u2019 content, the number of deals is climbing but the economics remain largely unproven.\u00a0Roberts broke down the opportunities he\u2019s seeing that could generate real revenue for People Inc. and publishers at scale \u2013 and how it could work in their favor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/people-incs-jon-roberts-on-the-ai-licensing-boom-and-the-revenue-lag\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/newsletters\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in AI content licensing marketplaces has created a new wave of opportunities for publishers \u2014 just not much money yet. \u201cI think there\u2019s a boom in companies who claim they will sell your content for money, and not yet a boom in the money from those deals. So there seems to be more [&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-57476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57476","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=57476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}