NEWTollBit State of the AI Bots - Q2 2025

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Crazy Stupid Tech
Fred VogelsteinCrazy Stupid Tech
Featured
June 22, 2025Article

Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths

The Register
Thomas ClaburnThe Register
December 8, 2025Article

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Digiday
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
November 20, 2025Article

Inside The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy

Digiday
Jessica DaviesDigiday
November 11, 2025Article

When bots look like buyers: agentic traffic causing new publisher headaches

Digiday
Jessica DaviesDigiday
November 3, 2025Article

Ranking is out, visibility is in as publishers chip away at AI search optimization

VKTR
Sharon FisherVKTR
October 31, 2025Article

The Internet Is Being Overrun by AI Bots — And Websites Are Paying the Price

Columbia Journalism Review
Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia JaźwińskaColumbia Journalism Review
October 30, 2025Article

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls

Editor & Publisher
Bob SillickEditor & Publisher
October 28, 2025Article

Revenue roundup: Can AI marketplaces save publishing's future?

The Washington Post
Shira OvideThe Washington Post
October 24, 2025Article

The Fight Between AI Companies and the Companies that Hate Them

TechBlitz
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"

Yahoo Finance
Nele WegnerYahoo Finance
October 7, 2025Article

Fewer and Fewer People Are Surfing the Web–but Who Still Is?

INMA
Massimo BarsottiINMA
October 6, 2025Article

News companies are doubling down to fight against AI Web scrapers

Business Wire
Business Wire
September 29, 2025Article

VerticalScope Taps TollBit to Unlock AI License Revenue and Protect Community Content

The Media Copilot
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
September 23, 2025Article

Publishers want to charge bots. First, they have to find them

The Current
Chris BrooklierThe Current
September 18, 2025Article

From threat to revenue stream: Publishers test new models for the AI era

Fast Company
Pete PachalFast Company
September 17, 2025Article

AI scraping is inevitable. Can publishers turn it into revenue?

Digiday
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
September 17, 2025Article

WTF is headless browsing, and how are AI agents fueling it?

EIN Presswire
EIN Presswire
September 16, 2025Article

Nota News Launches with Microsoft and TollBit to Restore Local Journalism and Expand Civic Access

A Media Operator
Stephanie BradfordA Media Operator
September 16, 2025Article

All That Bot Traffic is Jacking Your Hosting Costs

Digiday
Jessica DaviesDigiday
September 15, 2025Article

Publishers and advertisers face new AI agent oversight hurdles

Press Gazette
David ButtlePress Gazette
September 15, 2025Article

AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites

Axios
Sara FischerAxios
September 6, 2025Article

AI marketplaces multiply to scale publisher deals

Zero Clicks
Rand FishkinZero Clicks
September 4, 2025Article

Zero Clicks #35: The Gateway to the Agentic Internet

This Week in Startups
Jason CalacanisThis Week in Startups
August 20, 2025Video

This Week in Startups

Australian Financial Review
Sam Buckingham-JonesAustralian Financial Review
August 6, 2025Article

AI firms crawling Nine Entertainment's news sites 10 times a second

Digiday
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
August 5, 2025Article

WTF is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why should publishers care?

Yahoo Finance
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
The Economist
July 14, 2025Article

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

Digiday
Sara GuaglioneDigiday
July 2, 2025Article

Here are the biggest misconceptions about AI content scraping

The Washington Post
Shira OvideThe Washington Post
July 1, 2025Article

How AI bots are threatening your favorite websites

Fast Company
Pete PachalFast Company
June 23, 2025Article

The internet of agents is rising fast, and publishers are nowhere near ready

Yahoo Finance
Brad SmithYahoo Finance
June 20, 2025Video

How this startup is helping publishers profit from AI scraping

The Washington Post
Nitasha TikuThe Washington Post
June 11, 2025Article

'This is coming for everyone': A new kind of AI bot takes over the web

A Media Operator
Kari McMahonA Media Operator
May 14, 2025Article

Publishers Tackle AI Scraping—It's Not Going Well

E-Commerce Times
Jack M. GermainE-Commerce Times
April 10, 2025Article

Ethical AI Access Gives E-Commerce Sites a Revenue Advantage

Status
Oliver DarcyStatus
March 16, 2025Article

Billing the Bots

Adweek
Trishla OstwalAdweek
March 12, 2025Article

TollBit’s New Tool Helps Publishers Save Money From AI Bots Scraping Their Content

NY Times
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
VentureFizz
March 3, 2025Podcast

The VentureFizz Podcast: Toshit Panigrahi & Olivia Joslin, Co-Founders of TollBit

Forbes
Rashi Shrivastava, Richard NievaForbes
March 3, 2025Article

New Data Shows Just How Badly AI Companies are Screwing over Publishers

Futurism
Noor Al-SibaiFuturism
March 3, 2025Article

Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought

Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
January 7, 2025Article

TollBit Partners with HUMAN for Advanced Bot Blocking to Protect Sites Against Scraping

Forbes
Forbes 30 under 30Forbes
December 3, 2024Article

TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi Make Forbes 30 Under 30

Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
November 5, 2024Article

You.com and TollBit Launch First AI Election Agent with Real-Time Results

Axios
Sara FischerAxios
October 22, 2024Article

AI startup TollBit raises $24M series A

Lightspeed Venture Partners
Michael Mignano and Faraz FatemiLightspeed Venture Partners
October 22, 2024Article

Investing in TollBit: The Internet’s AI Toll Booth

Fintech TV
Remy BlaireFintech TV
September 4, 2024Video

New economics with AI and content licensing with TollBit

This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis and Alex WilhelmThis Week in Startups
August 5, 2024Podcast

TollBit makes the TWiST 500 | E1989

The Media Copilot
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
July 19, 2024Podcast

How to Get AI Companies to Pay for Content, With TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi

The Media Copilot
Pete PachalThe Media Copilot
June 21, 2024Article

The Unstoppable Rise of AI Summaries

Business Insider
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

LightShed Partners
Richard Greenfield and Brandon RossLightShed Partners
June 14, 2024Podcast

LightShed Podcast Episode 214

TechPolicy.Press
Anya SchiffrinTechPolicy.Press
May 31, 2024Article

World Association of Newspapers 2024 Meeting Discusses AI Deals: To Sign or To Sue?

Poynter
Anya SchiffrinPoynter
May 15, 2024Article

‘A small window of opportunity’ as publishers grapple with growing AI use

Adweek
Trishla OstwalAdweek
May 15, 2024Article

Google Rolls Out SGE: Here’s How Publishers Are Responding

TechPolicy.Press
Anya Schiffrin and Haaris MateenTechPolicy.Press
May 14, 2024Article

Startup Aims To Help Publishers Collect Fees from AI Companies

Axios
Sara FischerAxios
May 3, 2024Article

News industry divides over AI

Platformer
Zoë Schiffer, Casey NewtonPlatformer
April 30, 2024Article

Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals

Adweek
Trishla OstwalAdweek
April 17, 2024Article

12 Hot AI Startups That Brands Are Working With

PR Newswire
PR Newswire
April 9, 2024Article

Media Veteran Campbell Brown Joins TollBit as Senior Advisor

Axios
Sara FischerAxios
April 9, 2024Article

Exclusive: Ex-Meta news executive Campbell Brown joins AI startup

VentureFizz
VentureFizz
April 8, 2024Video

Ben Lerer on Investing in Tollbit

The Rebooting
Brian MorrisseyThe Rebooting
March 7, 2024Article

The change agenda

Axios
Dan PrimackAxios
March 5, 2024Article

TollBit raises $7 million to solve the AI vs. publisher conflict

PR Newswire
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
Lerer Hippeau
March 5, 2024Article

Please welcome TollBit, the platform helping websites protect and monetize their content against AI web scraping