• by Ray Schultz , Columnist, Yesterday

Factiva, the Dow Jones intelligence platform and AI marketplace, has secured licensing rights from more than 8,000 news and business sources. 

It's fair to asssume that Factiva has become an information giant that can serve as a model for other publishers. Its users include business leaders and readers. 

Factiva now features news and information from AdWeek Agencia EFE, AWP Finanznachrichten, Beijing Review, USAToday Co., The Globe and Mail, Hong Kong Economic Times, Exame, Fast Company, Inc., McClatchy Media, News Corp Australia, Newsquest Media Group, The Atlantic and The National.

They join publishers that were already there, like The Associated Press, Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial News, MarketWatch, Private Equity News, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.  

Factiva claims it has added 4,000 licensing sources since the Factiva Smart Summary, an information platform launched in January 2024. 

The difference between this and summary platforms that simply scrape and steal stories is that Factiva is transparent and compensates publishers whose content is used. 

“For over 25 years, we have built our business on the integrity of our data, and in the age of AI, Factiva offers our customers a level of transparency and trust that cannot be replicated by scraping content,” says Emma O’Brian, Factiva's general manager. 

Factiva helps researchers and decision-makers with generative AI-powered products that include:

• Factiva APIs that provide enterprises and financial firms with licensed, copyright-compliant content to power conversational AI, portfolio summarization and deep research tools
  
• Factiva.com, an AI platform of solutions that synthesize search results from licensed sources and turn them into concise, well-written  paragraphs and scannable bullet points 

"Factiva's growth and scale are evidence of its incredibly important role in the information ecosystem,” says Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. "Companies need to know that they can trust the data and information powering their AI solutions, and publishers need a marketplace that fairly compensates them for their proprietary news, data and information."

Latour concludes, "Factiva accomplishes both.”