Last Updated: April 17, 2026
Start: Mid-May 2026
Publisher POC with HarperCollins
6-week POCs starting Mid-May 2026
Dual POC engagements with Arc XP platform and Washington Post
Target Close: Q2 2026
Publisher partnership deal on track for Q2 closure
POC in progress with McClatchy newspaper chain - 30+ newsrooms including Miami Herald, Kansas City Star
UK news publisher opportunity
Recently acquired by Axel Springer - will re-engage post-integration
Sports content partnership - need to re-engage
New CTO presents re-engagement opportunity - historically good BD partners
UK's most-visited newspaper website - need to re-engage and win
Renewal negotiations with Medium platform
April 29, 2026
AI Scraping and Security Workshop with Spotify
Educational webinar on bot management trends for NBCU team
Expansion opportunity with AP newswire
Portfolio includes Vogue, Wired, New Yorker
Proposal Sent: April 2 | Last Activity: April 13
Health & sciences content licensing deal with MIT attribution partnership
Customer Buy-ins: BMJ, Carbon Brief, Quest, Wiley, MDPI, ResearchGate
Last Activity: April 16 | Contact: Richard Chieng (PM, Manus)
Scaling "Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Payments" model similar to SimilarWeb deal
Focus Areas: Business/financial data, academic publishers, job/recruitment, real estate platforms
Key Requirement: Exclusive access advantage (at least temporarily) in return for streamlined negotiations
Content signals licensing discussions
Last Activity: April 3 | Contacts: Sidney Wijngaarde, Soroush Khadem, Tamar Weseley
Domain validation and ID resolution solution for GTM workflows
Scope: ~25M domain records - initial sync + routine updates for live/valid status and redirect tracking
Strong meeting with leadership (Dane + CTO) - "in the dark ages" with bot management
Ask: API access to Cloudflare content signals data
High-value creator content + licensed publisher content to protect
Challenge: Weak AE coverage, high Fastly takeout priority - Jack coordinating
Big Opportunity: Individual creator controls for bot management - first mover advantage over Patreon/Substack
Positions Beehiiv as leader in next wave of creator monetization with clear value differentiator
Contact: Tyler (founder) | Meeting scheduled week of May 13
Potential: Big announcement at Cannes - Beehiiv is nimble and can move fast
Major Win: Platform-wide AI crawler blocking as default, replacing robots.txt approach
No creator-level controls in initial phase - public announcement opportunity to demonstrate creator protection
Collaborative rollout announcement planned | Contact: Sam
Big Win: Marketer GEO Dashboard partnership - "Google Analytics for the agentic era"
Incredible call with Edward Cowell (VP SEO) - using Cloudflare bot data
Next Steps: Matthew conversation with Cindy and Emily
Cannes Opportunity: Joint on-stage announcement - WPP owns Cannes, chance to hijack their presence
Potential press/media opportunity
Comprehensive report on bot trends, blocking patterns, and AI crawler behavior across publishers
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Cannes Lions or advertising/media event - potential WPP joint announcement
September 2026
International News Media Association tour - global publisher networking and BD