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AI agents earn less than programmatic buyers; Cloudflare revises AI payouts

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Programmatic buyers are seeing a 13.4% higher CPM compared to AI agents, according to DataBeat. While AI agents have a higher fill rate and participate in fewer auctions, they earn less per impression. Separately, Cloudflare is changing its AI payout model to reward publishers per query result rather than per page fetch, acknowledging that over half of bot crawls are redundant. AI

IMPACT Changes in AI agent economics and bot crawling efficiency could impact publisher revenue and the overall cost of AI-driven advertising.

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AI agents earn less than programmatic buyers; Cloudflare revises AI payouts

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · ppcland ·

    FYI: Programmatic buyers gain 13.4% CPM edge over AI agents, DataBeat finds: Agentic demand posts an 11.5% higher fill rate in 86% fewer auctions, yet earns les

    FYI: Programmatic buyers gain 13.4% CPM edge over AI agents, DataBeat finds: Agentic demand posts an 11.5% higher fill rate in 86% fewer auctions, yet earns less per impression, leaving publishers to weigh yield against thinner demand. https:// ppc.land/programmatic-buyers-g ain-…

    LINKS ppc.land/programmatic-buyers-gain-13-4-cp…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · ppcland ·

    FYI: Cloudflare ties AI payouts to citations as 50% of crawls waste: Ceramic.ai and You.com will now pay publishers per query result, not per page fetch, since

    FYI: Cloudflare ties AI payouts to citations as 50% of crawls waste: Ceramic.ai and You.com will now pay publishers per query result, not per page fetch, since over half of good-bot crawls only re-fetch pages that never changed. https:// ppc.land/cloudflare-ties-ai-pa youts-to-ci…

    LINKS ppc.land/cloudflare-ties-ai-payouts-to-ci…

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