Deal roundup
AI data licensing deals announced in 2024
Quick answer
2024 saw a wave of publicly announced AI data licensing deals, including News Corp, Dotdash Meredith, Financial Times (announced in April, just before the year's run of deals), The Atlantic, Vox Media, Time, Hearst and HarperCollins signing agreements with OpenAI, Microsoft or Google. Exact deal values were disclosed in only a few cases, such as News Corp's reported $250 million-plus pact.
What was reported#
- Reddit-Google ($60 million a year, reported) and Stack Overflow-Google (OverflowAPI) deals were both announced in February 2024.
- Financial Times-OpenAI (April), News Corp-OpenAI ($250 million-plus, May), Dotdash Meredith-OpenAI (May) and Reddit-OpenAI (May) were all announced in the spring of 2024.
- The Atlantic-OpenAI and Vox Media-OpenAI were both announced the same day, May 29, 2024.
- Taylor & Francis's Microsoft data deal (over $10 million in year one) and Stack Overflow-OpenAI were both disclosed in May 2024.
- Time-OpenAI (June), Condé Nast-OpenAI (August) and Hearst-OpenAI (October) rounded out the second half of the year.
- HarperCollins's Microsoft book-licensing deal was reported in November 2024, among the last major deals disclosed that year.
- Total combined value of all 2024 deals is not publicly disclosed; only select individual deal values, like News Corp's, were reported.
Related deals
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Sources
Public sources, checked 2026-10-09. SourceX is not affiliated with the organizations named.
- Reuters: Sam Altman's OpenAI signs content agreement with News Corp reuters.com
- Bloomberg: Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.'s HarperCollins bloomberg.com
- Axios: OpenAI and Hearst strike content deal axios.com
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