Inside Bloomberg Media’s survival guide for the AI era

Bloomberg Media has yet to sign a content licensing deal with any AI company. And the business news publisher’s CEO Karen Saltser explained why on stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami, Florida, on Monday.

“The choice we made at the time and to date is still not to license for training. Certainly we’re still in conversation with all of the companies, and as commercial models are evolving, we are having new types of conversations,” Saltser said.

Indeed, the AI compensation model for publishers seems to be shifting toward usage-based payments that are more recurrent compared to the lump-sum licensing deals for AI companies to train on publisher’s data. “It’s a fairer, hopefully recurring-based model. I’m not sure it’s the end-all, be-all for publishers,” Saltser said.

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Ad execs hope quarterly earnings reform can ease short-termism, but it’s no silver bullet

Elliott Hill needs a good holiday.

The CEO of Nike promised shareholders and analysts in June that his company had now borne the worst side effects of his turnaround treatment. “We believe full recovery will take time,” he said during its Q4 earnings call.

At the end of this month, they’ll want to see early evidence that projected holiday sales are materializing. Positive noises on the next quarterly call would buy Hill more space and time, while negative or neutral signals will reduce his room for movement. It’ll be a crucial test for the apparel brand, one its leaders might wish they could postpone.

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