Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM UTCRYoutubePeople Inc. CEO says it’s “probably” headed for a confrontation with Google over AI crawling.Neil Vogel, CEO of the publisher formerly known as Dotdash Meredith, brought up his company’s AI licensing deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft in an Axios interview this week. He noted that while it blocks other unlicensed AI crawlers, it can’t block Google’s since it’s the same one used for Google Search.According to Vogel, “We would love to do something productive with them, but we’re probably heading towards more confrontation than productivity with those guys.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Richard Lawler
People Inc. CEO says it’s “probably” headed for a confrontation with Google over AI crawling.
Neil Vogel, CEO of the publisher formerly known as Dotdash Meredith, brought up his company’s AI licensing deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft in an Axios interview this week. He noted that while it blocks other unlicensed AI crawlers, it can’t block Google’s since it’s the same one used for Google Search. According to Vogel, “We would love to do something productive with them, but we’re probably heading towards more confrontation than productivity with those guys.” [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCaS_XDsLPE]
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