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  1. AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

    • Will Knight, WIRED
    • February 5, 2026

  2. AI Bot Traffic to Websites Is Rising Rapidly. It Could Change the Nature of the Web

    • Chris Morris, INC.
    • February 9, 2026

  3. The battle between news publishers and AI bots is heating up

    • Travis Clark, The Current
    • February 5, 2026

  4. 'The pipes are leaky': New report shows AI scrapers bypassing publisher protections at scale

    • Christopher Allbritton, The Media Copilot
    • February 5, 2026

  5. DPCMO Partners with TollBit to Offer Solutions to Support its Members

    • Karen Rønde, DPCMO
    • March 12, 2026

  6. The Athletic invests in live blogs, video to insulate sports coverage from AI scraping

    • Sara Guaglione, Digiday
    • February 9, 2026

  7. WTF is the IAB's AI Accountability for Publishers Act (and what happens next)?

    • Jessica Davies, Sara Guaglione, Digiday
    • February 6, 2026

  8. AI bot web traffic is closing in on human usage, experts warn

    • Craig Hale, Yahoo! Tech
    • February 6, 2026

  9. Media Briefing: A solid Q4 gives publishers breathing room as they build revenue beyond search

    • Sara Guaglione, Jessica Davies, Digiday
    • February 5, 2026

  10. AI Bots Now Drive 2% of Web Traffic as Publishers Fight Back

  1. TNL Mediagene Announces Early Success in AI Content Licensing Revenue Model via TollBit Marketplace Integration and Strategic Partnership
  1. A challenging year but signs of progress for local news in 2026
  1. Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
  1. Inside The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy
  1. When bots look like buyers: agentic traffic causing new publisher headaches
  1. Ranking is out, visibility is in as publishers chip away at AI search optimization
  1. The Internet Is Being Overrun by AI Bots — And Websites Are Paying the Price
  1. How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls
  1. Revenue roundup: Can AI marketplaces save publishing's future?
  1. The Fight Between AI Companies and the Companies that Hate Them
  1. AI search engines are driving down media advertising revenues, and TollBit is fighting the "age when AI reads articles instead of humans"
  1. Fewer and Fewer People Are Surfing the Web–but Who Still Is?
  1. News companies are doubling down to fight against AI Web scrapers
  1. VerticalScope Taps TollBit to Unlock AI License Revenue and Protect Community Content
  1. Publishers want to charge bots. First, they have to find them
  1. From threat to revenue stream: Publishers test new models for the AI era
  1. AI scraping is inevitable. Can publishers turn it into revenue?
  1. WTF is headless browsing, and how are AI agents fueling it?
  1. Nota News Launches with Microsoft and TollBit to Restore Local Journalism and Expand Civic Access
  1. All That Bot Traffic is Jacking Your Hosting Costs
  1. Publishers and advertisers face new AI agent oversight hurdles
  1. AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites
  1. AI marketplaces multiply to scale publisher deals
  1. Zero Clicks #35: The Gateway to the Agentic Internet
  1. This Week in Startups
  1. AI firms crawling Nine Entertainment's news sites 10 times a second
  1. WTF is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why should publishers care?
  1. DataDome Brings Real-Time Control & Monetization Of AI Agents in New Partnership with TollBit at Black Hat USA 2025
  1. AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
  1. Here are the biggest misconceptions about AI content scraping
  1. How AI bots are threatening your favorite websites
  1. The internet of agents is rising fast, and publishers are nowhere near ready
  1. Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths
  1. How this startup is helping publishers profit from AI scraping
  1. 'This is coming for everyone': A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
  1. Publishers Tackle AI Scraping—It's Not Going Well
  1. Ethical AI Access Gives E-Commerce Sites a Revenue Advantage
  1. Billing the Bots
  1. TollBit’s New Tool Helps Publishers Save Money From AI Bots Scraping Their Content
  1. Is Google Search Cooked? + Were Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You're Vibecoding
  1. The VentureFizz Podcast: Toshit Panigrahi & Olivia Joslin, Co-Founders of TollBit
  1. New Data Shows Just How Badly AI Companies are Screwing over Publishers
  1. Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought
  1. TollBit Partners with HUMAN for Advanced Bot Blocking to Protect Sites Against Scraping
  1. TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi Make Forbes 30 Under 30
  1. You.com and TollBit Launch First AI Election Agent with Real-Time Results
  1. AI startup TollBit raises $24M series A
  1. Investing in TollBit: The Internet’s AI Toll Booth
  1. New economics with AI and content licensing with TollBit
  1. TollBit makes the TWiST 500 | E1989
  1. How to Get AI Companies to Pay for Content, With TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi
  1. The Unstoppable Rise of AI Summaries
  1. OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content
  1. The Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry You've Never Heard Of And The Startups Working To Take It Down
  1. LightShed Podcast Episode 214
  1. World Association of Newspapers 2024 Meeting Discusses AI Deals: To Sign or To Sue?
  1. ‘A small window of opportunity’ as publishers grapple with growing AI use
  1. Google Rolls Out SGE: Here’s How Publishers Are Responding
  1. Startup Aims To Help Publishers Collect Fees from AI Companies
  1. News industry divides over AI
  1. Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals
  1. 12 Hot AI Startups That Brands Are Working With
  1. Media Veteran Campbell Brown Joins TollBit as Senior Advisor
  1. Exclusive: Ex-Meta news executive Campbell Brown joins AI startup
  1. Ben Lerer on Investing in Tollbit
  1. The change agenda
  1. TollBit raises $7 million to solve the AI vs. publisher conflict
  1. Leading Media and Tech Investors Bet on “Tollbit” - the First Platform To Tackle the New Economics of Content in the AI Era
  1. Please welcome TollBit, the platform helping websites protect and monetize their content against AI web scraping