AI Content Licensing

AI Models Got the Hype—But Apps Decide Who Wins Next

Andy Beach (former Microsoft CTO of AI) on the real AI battleground: startups building cross-platform apps across Netflix and YouTube—unlocking…

Apr 27 • Rob Kelly

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Ex-Meta Dealmaker Behind $1B in Content: What Actually Wins

JC Cangilla closed hundreds of deals across Meta, Disney, Sony & Paramount: 2 things algorithms reward, how engineers control distribution—& what…

Mar 30 • Rob Kelly

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Dow Jones Ex-Head of Innovation: Woo or Sue AI?

Mark Riley on the AI strategies of the NY Times, News Corp & The Economist; how much traffic AI will send vs. Google; and AI disruption in Classifieds…

Mar 21 • Rob Kelly

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SPIN’s CEO: AI Can’t Break the Next Nirvana

Jimmy Hutcheson on growing SPIN's revenue 17×, how OpenAI, Meta, and Google should pay media, buying Pitchfork, and where he’d start a media company…

Mar 16 • Rob Kelly

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Get Paid by OpenAI: How All Publishers Finally Can

Doug Leeds of RSL is building the ASCAP for AI — backed by Reddit, The AP, and publishers representing 50% of the content frontier models rely on.

Feb 27 • Rob Kelly

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The CEO Quietly Licensing 2M+ Hours of Content to AI Giants

My Interview with Clint Stinchcomb, CEO of CuriosityStream (NASDAQ: CURI)

Feb 1 • Rob Kelly

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AI Content Deals Hit New High

Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Disney are all cutting checks. From news to music to movies, here’s what’s driving the record-breaking surge in AI…

Dec 16, 2025 • Rob Kelly

The 7 Content Types Most Valuable to AI World Models

Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, and Meta are betting World Models will be bigger than LLMs — and they’ll need real-world data to build them. Here are the 7…

Dec 8, 2025 • Rob Kelly

Reddit’s New AI Licensing Deal Shows How Content Co.s Get Paid Next (Flat→Usage→Dynamic)

Reddit’s push for performance-based AI payouts could be the template for future content deals — including audio, images, and video.

Sep 30, 2025 • Rob Kelly

The 5 Ways to Get Traffic from ChatGPT

Licensing deals. Custom GPTs. AI agents. Here’s how top brands like The Atlantic and Hearst are winning traffic from ChatGPT.

Sep 20, 2025 • Rob Kelly

5 Ways Premium Publishers Get Paid for AI Usage

Wiley, CB Insights, HarperCollins, PitchBook, Statista, and others are pioneering bold models in Perplexity and beyond — Cashmere’s Jonathan Woahn…

Sep 9, 2025 • Rob Kelly

What Smaller Creators Get Paid Licensing Video to AI

Highlights from "The New AI Data Trade" Series (The Wall Street Journal)

Aug 20, 2025 • Rob Kelly

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