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Paywalling the Robots

As Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default, companies with valuable digital libraries can now charge AI developers for access to their content. This carefully selected group of stocks features businesses positioned to create new revenue streams in the emerging data licensing economy.

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Han Tan | Market Analyst

Updated 1 day ago | Published at July 2

Top Picks from This Group

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GETY

Getty Images Holdings Inc

GETY

Current price

$1.81

As a leading creator and marketplace for visual content, Getty Images is perfectly positioned to license its vast library of photos and videos to AI c...

As a leading creator and marketplace for visual content, Getty Images is perfectly positioned to license its vast library of photos and videos to AI companies for training generative models.

SSTK

Shutterstock, Inc.

SSTK

Current price

$21.44

Shutterstock operates a massive marketplace of images, footage, and music, and can directly monetize this content by charging AI developers for access...

Shutterstock operates a massive marketplace of images, footage, and music, and can directly monetize this content by charging AI developers for access through a licensing framework.

NWSA

News Corporation

NWSA

Current price

$29.47

News Corp owns a treasure trove of valuable text-based content, including archives from The Wall Street Journal and books from HarperCollins, making i...

News Corp owns a treasure trove of valuable text-based content, including archives from The Wall Street Journal and books from HarperCollins, making it a prime candidate to monetize its data.

About This Group of Stocks

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Our Expert Thinking

These stocks represent a fundamental shift in internet economics. With Cloudflare's new Pay Per Crawl system, companies that own valuable content libraries can now monetize their digital assets by charging AI developers for training data, creating entirely new revenue streams.

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What You Need to Know

This group includes diverse content owners (news publishers, image libraries, video archives), technology facilitators, and infrastructure providers. They're positioned to benefit from a new marketplace where AI companies must pay to access the high-quality data needed to train their models.

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Why These Stocks

Each company in this group has been selected because it either owns substantial proprietary content, provides technology to facilitate content licensing, or supports the increased computational demand this shift will create. They're the gatekeepers and enablers of the AI data economy.

12 Month Growth Potential

Use the growth calculator to see how much investing in these assets could return over one year.

If you invested across these assets:

in 12 months it could be worth:

$1,000.00

+83.40%

Group Performance Snapshot

83.4%

Average 12 Month Profit

On average, analysts expect assets in this group to grow 83.4% over the next year.

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Stocks Rated Buy by Analysts

12 of 14 assets in this group are rated Buy by professional analysts.

Source: Analyst sentiment is provided by Refinitiv Ltd, a global leader in financial market data with over 40k business clients. Refinitiv Ltd is an independent third party to Nemo. This is not advice.

Why You'll Want to Watch These Stocks

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New Revenue Stream Alert

These companies can now monetize what was previously given away for free. By charging AI developers for access to their content, they're creating entirely new, high-margin revenue opportunities overnight.

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Power Shift Happening Now

Cloudflare's decision to block AI crawlers by default has tilted the balance of power from AI companies to content owners. This fundamental market shift could reshape how value is distributed across the internet economy.

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Early Stage Opportunity

The AI data licensing market is just beginning to form. These companies are positioned at the ground floor of what could become a massive new economic layer of the internet, with first-mover advantages.

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