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Fred VogelsteinCrazy Stupid Tech
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June 22, 2025Article
Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths
Thomas ClaburnThe Register
December 8, 2025Article
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
November 20, 2025Article
Inside The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy
Jessica DaviesDigiday
November 11, 2025Article
When bots look like buyers: agentic traffic causing new publisher headaches
Jessica DaviesDigiday
November 3, 2025Article
Ranking is out, visibility is in as publishers chip away at AI search optimization
Sharon FisherVKTR
October 31, 2025Article
The Internet Is Being Overrun by AI Bots — And Websites Are Paying the Price
Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia JaźwińskaColumbia Journalism Review
October 30, 2025Article
How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls
Bob SillickEditor & Publisher
October 28, 2025Article
Revenue roundup: Can AI marketplaces save publishing's future?
Shira OvideThe Washington Post
October 24, 2025Article
The Fight Between AI Companies and the Companies that Hate Them
TechBlitz
October 15, 2025Article
AI search engines are driving down media advertising revenues, and TollBit is fighting the "age when AI reads articles instead of humans"
Nele WegnerYahoo Finance
October 7, 2025Article
Fewer and Fewer People Are Surfing the Web–but Who Still Is?
Massimo BarsottiINMA
October 6, 2025Article
News companies are doubling down to fight against AI Web scrapers
Business Wire
September 29, 2025Article
VerticalScope Taps TollBit to Unlock AI License Revenue and Protect Community Content
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
September 23, 2025Article
Publishers want to charge bots. First, they have to find them
Chris BrooklierThe Current
September 18, 2025Article
From threat to revenue stream: Publishers test new models for the AI era
Pete PachalFast Company
September 17, 2025Article
AI scraping is inevitable. Can publishers turn it into revenue?
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
September 17, 2025Article
WTF is headless browsing, and how are AI agents fueling it?
EIN Presswire
September 16, 2025Article
Nota News Launches with Microsoft and TollBit to Restore Local Journalism and Expand Civic Access
Stephanie BradfordA Media Operator
September 16, 2025Article
All That Bot Traffic is Jacking Your Hosting Costs
Jessica DaviesDigiday
September 15, 2025Article
Publishers and advertisers face new AI agent oversight hurdles
David ButtlePress Gazette
September 15, 2025Article
AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites
Sara FischerAxios
September 6, 2025Article
AI marketplaces multiply to scale publisher deals
Rand FishkinZero Clicks
September 4, 2025Article
Zero Clicks #35: The Gateway to the Agentic Internet
Jason CalacanisThis Week in Startups
August 20, 2025Video
This Week in Startups
Sam Buckingham-JonesAustralian Financial Review
August 6, 2025Article
AI firms crawling Nine Entertainment's news sites 10 times a second
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
August 5, 2025Article
WTF is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why should publishers care?
Yahoo Finance
July 29, 2025Article
DataDome Brings Real-Time Control & Monetization Of AI Agents in New Partnership with TollBit at Black Hat USA 2025
The Economist
July 14, 2025Article
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
July 2, 2025Article
Here are the biggest misconceptions about AI content scraping
Shira OvideThe Washington Post
July 1, 2025Article
How AI bots are threatening your favorite websites
Pete PachalFast Company
June 23, 2025Article
The internet of agents is rising fast, and publishers are nowhere near ready
Brad SmithYahoo Finance
June 20, 2025Video
How this startup is helping publishers profit from AI scraping
Nitasha TikuThe Washington Post
June 11, 2025Article
'This is coming for everyone': A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
Kari McMahonA Media Operator
May 14, 2025Article
Publishers Tackle AI Scraping—It's Not Going Well
Jack M. GermainE-Commerce Times
April 10, 2025Article
Ethical AI Access Gives E-Commerce Sites a Revenue Advantage
Oliver DarcyStatus
March 16, 2025Article
Billing the Bots
Trishla OstwalAdweek
March 12, 2025Article
TollBit’s New Tool Helps Publishers Save Money From AI Bots Scraping Their Content
Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonNY Times
March 7, 2025Podcast
Is Google Search Cooked? + Were Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You're Vibecoding
VentureFizz
March 3, 2025Podcast
The VentureFizz Podcast: Toshit Panigrahi & Olivia Joslin, Co-Founders of TollBit
Rashi Shrivastava, Richard NievaForbes
March 3, 2025Article
New Data Shows Just How Badly AI Companies are Screwing over Publishers
Noor Al-SibaiFuturism
March 3, 2025Article
Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought
Yahoo Finance
January 7, 2025Article
TollBit Partners with HUMAN for Advanced Bot Blocking to Protect Sites Against Scraping
Forbes 30 under 30Forbes
December 3, 2024Article
TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi Make Forbes 30 Under 30
Yahoo Finance
November 5, 2024Article
You.com and TollBit Launch First AI Election Agent with Real-Time Results
Sara FischerAxios
October 22, 2024Article
AI startup TollBit raises $24M series A
Michael Mignano and Faraz FatemiLightspeed Venture Partners
October 22, 2024Article
Investing in TollBit: The Internet’s AI Toll Booth
Remy BlaireFintech TV
September 4, 2024Video
New economics with AI and content licensing with TollBit
Jason Calacanis and Alex WilhelmThis Week in Startups
August 5, 2024Podcast
TollBit makes the TWiST 500 | E1989
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
July 19, 2024Podcast
How to Get AI Companies to Pay for Content, With TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
June 21, 2024Article
The Unstoppable Rise of AI Summaries
Kali HaysBusiness Insider
June 21, 2024Article
OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content
Stephanie PalazzoloThe Information
June 17, 2024Article
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry You've Never Heard Of And The Startups Working To Take It Down
Richard Greenfield and Brandon RossLightShed Partners
June 14, 2024Podcast
LightShed Podcast Episode 214
Anya SchiffrinTechPolicy.Press
May 31, 2024Article
World Association of Newspapers 2024 Meeting Discusses AI Deals: To Sign or To Sue?
Anya SchiffrinPoynter
May 15, 2024Article
‘A small window of opportunity’ as publishers grapple with growing AI use
Trishla OstwalAdweek
May 15, 2024Article
Google Rolls Out SGE: Here’s How Publishers Are Responding
Anya Schiffrin and Haaris MateenTechPolicy.Press
May 14, 2024Article
Startup Aims To Help Publishers Collect Fees from AI Companies
Sara FischerAxios
May 3, 2024Article
News industry divides over AI
Zoë Schiffer, Casey NewtonPlatformer
April 30, 2024Article
Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals
Trishla OstwalAdweek
April 17, 2024Article
12 Hot AI Startups That Brands Are Working With
PR Newswire
April 9, 2024Article
Media Veteran Campbell Brown Joins TollBit as Senior Advisor
Sara FischerAxios
April 9, 2024Article
Exclusive: Ex-Meta news executive Campbell Brown joins AI startup
VentureFizz
April 8, 2024Video
Ben Lerer on Investing in Tollbit
Brian MorrisseyThe Rebooting
March 7, 2024Article
The change agenda
Dan PrimackAxios
March 5, 2024Article
TollBit raises $7 million to solve the AI vs. publisher conflict
PR Newswire
March 5, 2024Article
Leading Media and Tech Investors Bet on “Tollbit” - the First Platform To Tackle the New Economics of Content in the AI Era
Lerer Hippeau
March 5, 2024Article