Deal roundup
The biggest publicly disclosed AI data licensing deals
Quick answer
Among AI data licensing deals with disclosed financial terms, News Corp's OpenAI agreement (reportedly over $250 million over about five years) is the largest publicly confirmed deal, followed by the New York Times' Amazon deal (reported at $20-25 million a year) and Reddit's Google deal (reported at about $60 million a year). Most other large deals, including Axel Springer's, Shutterstock's and the various 2024 publisher deals, never had precise values disclosed.
What was reported#
- News Corp-OpenAI: reportedly valued at more than $250 million over roughly five years, per the Wall Street Journal.
- Reddit-Google: reportedly worth about $60 million per year, per Reuters and AP; Reddit's SEC filing separately disclosed $203 million in total expected AI licensing revenue over three years from Google and other partners.
- New York Times-Amazon: reportedly worth $20 million to $25 million per year, per the Wall Street Journal.
- Taylor & Francis-Microsoft: disclosed at more than $10 million in year one, with recurring payments through 2027, per Informa's trading update.
- Axel Springer-OpenAI was reported by Bloomberg to be worth 'tens of millions of dollars,' without a precise public figure.
- Wiley's total fiscal 2026 AI licensing revenue across all customers was reported at $49 million, not a single-deal figure.
- Most other major deals on this list, including those with Hearst, Condé Nast, Vox Media, The Atlantic and Time, have never had dollar figures publicly confirmed.
Related deals
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Sources
Public sources, checked 2026-10-09. SourceX is not affiliated with the organizations named.
- WSJ: OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million wsj.com
- WSJ: Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal wsj.com
- Ars Technica: Reddit cashes in on AI gold rush with $203M in LLM training license fees arstechnica.com
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