Publishers Test AI Crawl Controls for Visibility

After Cloudflare rolled out Pay Per Crawl and AI Crawl Control last year, publishers and hosting providers are experimenting with crawl controls to measure how AI agents access content and consume infrastructure. Mediavine and BigScoots are integrating Cloudflare’s enterprise controls to surface which agents crawl, frequency, and referral behavior; early data remain limited, leaving publishers to balance exposure, costs, and potential licensing without clear industry standards.
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