Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, July 30th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers, but lots of AI companies are continuing

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Man it's all AI stuff today. Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue

with partners such as Time, Des Spiegel, Fortune, and Wordpress.com after weeks of plagiarism accusations.

I guess that's one way to do it, quoting the verge.

Under this program, when perplexity features content from these publishers in response to user queries,

the publishers will receive a share of the ad revenue. Publishing partners will also get a free one-year

subscription to Proplexity's Enterprise Pro Tier and access to Proplexities

developer tools plus insights through scale post. AI, a new AI startup that helps secure partnerships

between AI companies and publishers such as how frequently

their articles appear in search queries.

Dimitri Chevalenco, Proplexities Chief Business Officer, declined to share exact deal terms, but said that the revenue share is a

multi-year agreement with a double-digit percentage consistent across all publishers

with especially favorable terms for the initial partners.

Proplexity spokesperson Sarah Platnick added that payments are made on a per source basis,

meaning publishers are compensated for each article used in responses.

The program will temporarily provide cash advances on

revenue to publishers as perplexity builds a long-term advertising model. The

advances aren't a licensing fee for content like Open AIs deals.

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