SPUR publishes AI content tracking standard, pitches OpenAI and Google to join advisory board

A coalition of media organizations, including the Guardian and the Financial Times, has released a new standard for tracking how AI tools use publishers’ content.

The Standards for Publisher Usage Rights initiative, or SPUR, released the content telemetry standard today and has invited OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft to help shape how the standard is implemented, said Alex Springer, SPUR’s technical lead.

If they accept, they will join SPUR’s new, invitation-only AI Licensing Advisory Board, set up to help ensure the standard reflects the entire AI ecosystem. 

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Future of Marketing Briefing: Agency fees in creator deals are the next transparency headache for marketers

Any channel that takes a big enough share of the budget eventually gets here, and creator marketing is the latest. Programmatic had its reckoning a decade ago, and principal media deals face the same accusations today. Now, it looks as if agencies are running that playbook on creator budgets, rolling talent fees and their own margin into one line the client can’t pick apart.

Consultants, never backward in coming forward, are already warning advertisers about it, with the useful caveat that they’d also like to be paid to fix it. That doesn’t make their concerns any less valid. If anything, their warnings show how little marketers know about where their creator money goes, just as they’re putting more of it there.

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