Dappier × ZeroClick: premium publisher data any agent can buy
Agents need real-time information - news, market moves, scores, weather, and more - much of which comes from publishers. Those publishers need a viable business model to continue creating and supplying that information. That’s where Dappier comes in. Dappier solves this by offering licensed, real-time data models from trusted media brands. Today we're announcing an expansive partnership that makes Dappier's entire data marketplace purchasable by AI agents - per call, over open payment rails, with the content's owners getting paid.
The monetization layer for the AI answers economy
Dappier powers conversational AI for the open ecosystem. Publishers use it to launch branded AI answer experiences on their own sites - AI search bars, in-article agents, copilots - built on RAG data models trained on their own content. Advertisers use it to reach consumers inside AI conversations. Behind it all sits a marketplace of real-time data models: live web search, stock market insights, sports news, lifestyle content, and brand-specific AIs from media companies like Benzinga, News-Press & Gazette, and Wild Sky Media, with ecosystem partnerships spanning LiveRamp, Sovrn, and Dianomi.
The through-line is permission. Dappier gives content owners a way to say yes on their own terms - and get paid when AI says yes back.
If Dappier sounds familiar, it should: they were one of the first platforms to monetize conversational AI with ZeroClick. They've been building on the bet that AI is a new media channel as long as we have.
What the partnership does
Every data model in Dappier's marketplace is becoming an agent-purchasable service on ZeroClick. An agent that needs breaking news, a stock quote with context, sports headlines, or a real-time web search can discover Dappier's storefront, read the machine-readable listing, pay per call over x402 or MPP, and get clean, sourced data back - no signup, no API key, no data contract.
ZeroClick handles the commerce around every request: agent identity, payment on open rails, per-call pricing, and transaction-level analytics on every sale, with revenue settling directly to Dappier. Discovery comes built in - ZeroClick registers the storefront across the major agent indexes, including Coinbase's agentic.market, x402scan, mppscan, and zero.xyz, so Dappier's data shows up wherever agents search for it.
Data with a paper trail
Here's what makes this partnership different: when an agent buys from Dappier, the money doesn't stop at an aggregator. Dappier's data models are built from licensed publisher content, which means an agent's purchase flows back toward the people who actually reported the story, shot the footage, or published the analysis. Dappier gets you real-time data with a paper trail.
Agents are the most utilitarian buyers on the internet - they check the price, the freshness, and the source before they spend. A research agent fact-checking a claim, a trading assistant reading market headlines, a news bot assembling a briefing: each one can now pay a few cents for data that's current, attributed, and cleared for use.
Get started
If your agent needs real-time news, market data, or web search it can trust, point it at Dappier's agent storefront. If you're a publisher who wants your content earning in the AI answers economy, start at dappier.com. And if you're ready to sell your own product to AI agents, that's exactly why we built ZeroClick - get a demo at zeroclick.ai, or read the docs at docs.zeroclick.ai.