The lights are green for the group The World (in addition to its flagship, this name brings together other major French media, such as International Mail, Telerama, The Diplomatic World…). Its turnover increases by 2% over one year to 311 million euros in 2024, its highest level since 2017, reports The Echoes.
A winning deal with OpenAI?
As for the newspaper The World in itself, it recorded a net profit of 5.8 million euros to make many other French media green with envy. To explain these excellent figures, we can already cite its circulation of 546,000 daily copies, an increase of 10% over one year, in particular thanks to very solid digital subscriptions.
It should also be noted that The World is the only French press title to have signed an agreement with OpenAI which authorizes it to use its articles to form its database. If its amount is kept secret, the economic daily mentions the sum of 2 to 3 million euros.
Questioned on the subject, Louis Dreyfus, chairman of the group’s management board, responded straight away: “This is actually very far from the truth. We have always said that, if we sign with OpenAI, the amount must be significant”. In other words, OpenAI would pay much more than the amounts initially envisaged.
OpenAI and ChatGPT addicted to the press
As a reminder, OpenAI has decided to invest to obtain licensing agreements. Thus, no less than twelve publishers, including very big names, have accepted this type of partnership. Besides The Worldwe also find the Americans VoxOr Conde Nastor even the Financial Times in the United Kingdom.
These deals seem to be paying off for the technology company. According to an analysis carried out by Originality AI, a start-up specializing in AI detection based on 1000 news media, and relayed by Wiredthe blocking rate applied concerned a little more than a third of websites, it has now fallen to almost a quarter. Clearly, these portals which once stopped the startup’s robots are now more open to it. Enough to allow these models to benefit from better quality data.
What to remember:
- The Le Monde group announces excellent results for 2024
- These are linked to the progression of its diffusion
- The company also benefits from its agreement with OpenAI which would be very lucrative
