Price structure: fixed fee, per-unit, variable and revenue share
Anchor on a fixed minimum plus refresh or usage fees; per-unit pricing (per title, per hour, per record) makes consent and payouts traceable to individual contributors.
Dated 23 Jul 2026Source checked 23 Jul 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: stated
“a minimum of around $16 million per year to license its content, according to public financial documents from IAC”
Adweek: OpenAI is paying Dotdash Meredith at least $16 million to license its content, checked Nov 2024
Everything read from this source (3)Archived copy, 8 Sep 2026
Authors Guild: HarperCollins AI licensing deal, checked 19 Nov 2024
Everything read from this source (3)Archived copy, 15 Oct 2026
Reddit, Inc. Form S-1, checked 22 Feb 2024
Everything read from this source (4)Archived copy, 12 Oct 2026
Troveo: AI data licensing, checked 23 Jul 2026
Everything read from this source (6)Archived copy, 15 Oct 2026
- Dotdash Meredith (now People Inc., IAC) to OpenAI: Dotdash Meredith content licence; Adweek reports a fixed annual component plus a variable component to be calculated later.
- Ask for a floor plus a usage-linked variable
- Representations on consent and opt-outs
- Output and memorisation limits
- Reddit's data licences signed in January 2024 (access to search and analyse Reddit data), aggregate of several contracts
- Term
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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