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No Free Crawls: Akamai, TollBit, and Skyfire Turn Traffic into Revenue
Prnewswireยท 2025-09-17 10:28
Core Insights - Akamai Technologies has formed technical alliances with TollBit and Skyfire to provide publishers and content owners with options to monetize AI bot traffic [1][3]. Group 1: Akamai's Bot Management Solutions - Akamai handles over 150 billion bot requests daily, utilizing its scale to help customers block aggressive content scraping [2]. - The company aims to protect content, enforce fair usage, and create new revenue opportunities through its bot and abuse protection solutions [2]. Group 2: Partnership with TollBit - TollBit facilitates a fair exchange of value between AI companies and websites, allowing over 3,000 publishers to monitor 1.5 billion quarterly bot scrapes and receive compensation for AI bot access [3][4]. - The partnership enables Akamai to redirect approximately 450 million quarterly bots to the TollBit paywall, enhancing revenue generation for publishers [5]. Group 3: Partnership with Skyfire - Skyfire provides verified identity and tokenization capabilities, allowing AI agents to access Akamai-protected content securely and efficiently [7][8]. - The integration of Akamai's detection capabilities with Skyfire's identity model enables publishers to understand and monetize AI traffic effectively [8][9].