Digiday: Dozens of new third-party scrapers emerging as the new middlemen of content
A $1 billion market has formed — yet content creators receive zero
Inside the four-step pipeline: scrape → process → sell → reuse
How AI "Data Brokers" Take 100% of the Content — And Why Publishers Get Nothing
Digiday reports that 21-40 AI data broker firms have built a $1 billion "scraper economy" by collecting, processing and selling publisher content without consent or payment, with industry executives calling it "not a tax but a hostile takeover funded by our own IP
