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Digiday Scorecard: Publishers Rate Big Tech’s AI Licensing Deals

Analysts cite AI adoption, cloud market share gains, and strong quarterly earnings as drivers for Alphabet and Microsoft's projected $5 trillion-plus market values by 2026.

Summary by Digiday
AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with different trade-offs. Digiday asked eight publishers for their views on how each platform stacks up in 2025 on some key criteria: transparency, money paid to publishers, traffic impact (how much traffic the platform is siphoning away), willingness to license…

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The Motley Fool broke the news in Alexandria, United States on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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