A breakdown of the scraper economy: bulk harvesters, answer engines, search hybrids, and the infrastructure layer. The market hit $1 billion in 2025. Not one dollar flows back to publishers. (Matthew Scott Goldstein, LinkedIn)
- A breakdown maps 15 companies across four tiers of the scraper economy: bulk harvesters, answer engines, search hybrids, and infrastructure providers.
- Each tier extracts publisher content differently but the outcome is the same: content flows in, compensation flows out.
- The market hit $1 billion in 2025 and is projected to double by 2030, with zero revenue reaching publishers.
