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News & publishing
Newspapers, magazines, academic journals
Median per year
$19.3M
Range
$1M–$50M
Based on
6 prices
median $19.3M
$1M$10M$100M
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The most public part of the market. Publishers license archives and live feeds to AI companies, for training, for real-time answers, or both. Most deals are annual licenses.
What drives the price
- Archive size and how far back it goes.
- Real-time access (for live answers) on top of training rights.
- Brand and how often the content gets cited.
- Exclusivity and attribution terms.
Before you sign
- ✓Separate training rights from real-time display rights. They're priced differently.
- ✓Ask for attribution and links back in AI answers.
- ✓Keep the term short. Prices have moved fast since 2023.
Deals
| Date | Seller | Buyer | Reported price | Normalized | Terms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | Grupo UOL | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| May 2026 | Grupo Folha | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Mar 2026 | Süddeutsche Zeitung | Meta Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Mar 2026 | Prisa | Meta Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Mar 2026 | Le Figaro | Meta Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Mar 2026 | News Corp News content, 3-year deal | Meta Big tech | Up to $50M/yr | $50M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Jul 2025 | Hearst Content for Alexa shopping answers | Amazon Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Real-time answers | Public Source ↗ |
| Jul 2025 | Condé Nast Content for Alexa shopping answers | Amazon Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Real-time answers | Public Source ↗ |
| May 2025 | The New York Times Training and real-time answers in Alexa | Amazon Big tech | $20–25M/yr | $20M–$25M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Jan 2025 | AFP Live news feed and archive back to 1983, for grounding only | Mistral Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Real-time answers | Public Source ↗ |
| 2025 | The Washington Post | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2025 | Axios | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2025 | Schibsted | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2025 | The Guardian | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Oct 2024 | Reuters Real-time news answers and training | Meta Big tech | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Jul 2024 | Time, Fortune, Der Spiegel and others Publishers Program revenue-share pool | Perplexity Frontier lab | $42.5M pool (shared) | — | Revenue share Real-time answers | Public Source ↗ One pool split across all participating publishers. |
| May 2024 | Informa (Taylor & Francis) Academic and specialist content | Microsoft Big tech | $10M+ upfront | — | One-time Training | Public Source ↗ Informa reported about $65M+ in AI licensing revenue in 2024 across deals. |
| May 2024 | News Corp News archive and current content | OpenAI Frontier lab | $250M+ over 5 years | $50M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ Largest disclosed content deal, about $50M a year. |
| Apr 2024 | Financial Times News content | OpenAI Frontier lab | $5–10M/yr | $5M–$10M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | Hearst | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | Condé Nast | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | Time | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | The Atlantic | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | Vox Media | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| 2024 | Dotdash Meredith Magazine and web content | OpenAI Frontier lab | ~$16M/yr | $16M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Dec 2023 | Condé Nast, NBC News, IAC Proposed training licenses | Apple Big tech | $50M+ offers (talks only) | — | Training | Talks only Source ↗ Reported negotiations. No deal confirmed. |
| Dec 2023 | Axel Springer News content | OpenAI Frontier lab | Tens of millions of euros/yr | — | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Jul 2023 | Associated Press News archive | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
Published rates & benchmarks
Ranges and medians published by reporters, vendors and brokers. Not single deals.
| Date | Seller | Buyer | Reported price | Normalized | Terms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Publishers (various) What OpenAI reportedly offers many publishers | OpenAI Frontier lab | $1–5M/yr | $1M–$5M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |