Media and publishing data
Decades of articles, images and footage could become licensing revenue, not storage costs.
Newspapers, magazines, trade publishers, broadcasters and content studios hold decades of articles, photographs, audio and video that AI developers need. We handle rights review, de-identification of any subscriber data, buyer vetting and contracts alongside your counsel. You keep ownership and approve every use.
Who fits
- Regional newspaper and magazine groups
- B2B and trade publishers
- Radio, TV and podcast producers
- Stock, educational and specialty content studios
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Most valuable data types
What buyers want from media companies.
The publicly reported deals between large publishers and AI developers show what edited archives are worth, and most of that money has gone to the largest companies. Developers still need high quality text, images and audio in specialized domains, which is exactly what trade and regional publishers hold.
Edited articles, archives and reference content
Professionally edited, fact-checked text with bylines, dates and sections is the highest quality text developers can buy, and your back catalog is already written.
About documents and knowledge basesPhoto archives and video footage with captions
Captioned editorial photography and logged footage are labeled visual data, and decades of it from one region or beat is hard to assemble any other way.
About images and videoBroadcast audio, interviews and podcasts
Hours of varied voices with transcripts train speech recognition and voice models, and interview audio captures natural conversation.
About call recordings and transcriptsEditorial corrections, fact checks and style decisions
Records of what was corrected and why, plus the editing passes between draft and published, capture editorial judgment that developers want to learn.
About expert annotations and workflowsReader and subscriber service conversations
Subscription, delivery and account conversations are a smaller but clean conversational set once subscriber details are de-identified.
About support tickets and chats
Illustrative scenario
A 150-person B2B trade publisher with 14 titles
30 years of archives (400,000 edited articles), 1.5 million captioned images, and 8,000 hours of event and interview recordings
$200K to $1.2M
Illustrative estimates based on public benchmarks and our valuation model. Actual value depends on uniqueness, quality, rights and buyer demand. How we estimate
What drives the range
- Edited, specialized text in a narrow domain
- Captioned imagery and transcribed audio
- Contributor and freelance rights limit the licensable share
Compliance
Copyright, contributor rights and licensing scope handled with your counsel
Copyright ownership is confirmed title by title: staff work, work-for-hire and freelance material under different contracts are separated, and anything with unclear or limited rights is excluded. Contributor agreements, syndication deals, moral rights where applicable and existing licensing commitments are reviewed with your counsel so that an AI license never conflicts with them. Licensing scope is written precisely: training only, no resale, no reproduction of articles to end users, and audit rights for you.
Standards in play
- Copyright and work-for-hire review
- Freelance and contributor agreements
- Existing syndication and licensing commitments
- Scope limits: training only, no resale
FAQ
Media questions
Won't licensing to AI developers cannibalize our audience or our own licensing?
Contracts restrict use to model training and prohibit reproducing your articles to end users, reselling the archive or using your brand. Existing syndication and licensing deals are reviewed first so the scope never overlaps. Non-exclusive terms keep your other options open.
We have decades of freelance contributions with mixed contracts. Is that a deal breaker?
No, but it narrows the set. Material under contracts that clearly grant you broad rights is included, uncertain material is excluded or set aside for contributor outreach, and the method is documented with your counsel.
How is this different from a scraper taking our content for free?
Scraping gives you nothing and no say. A license gives you payment, control over who the buyer is and what they may do, audit rights and the option to walk away. It also puts your rights position in writing.
Find out what your media data is worth.
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