Matt G. Southern
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 115
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Cloudflare Moves Monetization Gateway & Pay Per Use Into Beta (opens the original)
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Cloudflare put two AI payment products into beta on Sept. 30. The Monetization Gateway enables sellers to charge AI agents for each request to an API, MCP tool, dataset, or site. It’s currently in closed beta for U.S.-based sellers and buyers. Pay Per Use, a separate product also in beta, compensates publishers when an AI company reports using their content after retrieval. Cloudflare announced the Gateway on July 1 and opened a waitlist. In my comparison on Sept. 18 of AI content payment models
Google AI Pilot Pays Some Sites Under 0.1% Of Ad Revenue (opens the original)
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Google is paying roughly 100 digital publishers through its AI contribution pilot, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the tests. The reported payments vary widely. Some smaller sites have earned less than $1,000 over several months, while one early participant is earning more than $1 million a year. For several small and midsize sites in the pilot, the payments amount to less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue, according to people familiar with the payouts. When
OpenAI Dots Run Read-Only Research When Nobody Is Asking (opens the original)
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OpenAI’s Dots agents caught people’s interest at DevDay this week because of their “always on” feature. The help pages, however, didn’t get quite as much notice. They explain what a dot can and can’t do when it’s not being directly talked to, including checking the same sources for updates. OpenAI explains that a dot can check its connected sources for new information even before anyone asks, which they call proactive research. It can also run regular checks on a schedule. The two methods follow
Google Analytics Adds App Conversions To Cross-Channel Reports (opens the original)
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Google Analytics now includes app conversions in its cross-channel conversion reports for web conversions. This update was announced on Sept. 29 on Google’s What’s new page. Right now, the feature isn’t available for every property, but Google says it’s actively working to bring it to more. The Conversion performance report only displays conversions that are shared with a linked Google Ads account, so this update reaches advertisers who are importing app conversions from Analytics into Google Ad
Google Desktop CTR Fell In Q2 While Mobile Rose, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern (opens the original)
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Q2 data shows Google desktop CTR down and mobile up at top positions, in a comparison spanning the end of a Search Console logging error. The post Google Desktop CTR Fell In Q2 While Mobile Rose, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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