Free webinars from Cloudflare and TollBit: AI monitoring and monetisation

posted on Sep 1, 2025
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The rise of generative AI has created serious copyright concerns, but also opportunities for savvy publishers and creators. Two upcoming webinars, open to European and national publishers’ associations and their members, can help you get up to speed.

TollBit has developed an AI monitoring and monetisation platform already trusted by over 2,400 leading publisher websites. In their upcoming webinar, they’ll offer a sneak peek at their upcoming ‘State of the Bots Report’ and discuss their latest tools for monitoring, managing and monetising AI crawler activity. Join here on 10 September (passcode 306368).

Cloudflare is developing a new suite of AI auditing tools designed to empower publishers to choose what, if any, AI access they want to allow. In their webinar, they’ll share how publishers can now monitor attention from AI crawlers, block unwanted data scraping and even charge AI crawlers for access to new content. Join here on 24 September (passcode 972257).

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