'AI Bots Outnumber Humans 31 to 1' - Fastview Visualizes the Media Industry's 'Invisible Reality' with Data
Fastview, a content infrastructure company, has launched 'Viewus,' a platform to visualize and monetize unauthorized AI content learning. It reveals that AI bots generate 31 times more traffic than humans, proposing a new revenue model for media.
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- 📰 Published: May 11, 2026 at 18:29
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Fastview (CEO: Park Sang-woo), a content infrastructure company originating from Asia, has officially launched its global content distribution platform, 'Viewus,' starting May 2026.
As the unauthorized learning of media content by generative AI becomes a pressing issue for the entire industry, Viewus was developed as an integrated infrastructure that 'visualizes the usage of content by AI and enables its recovery as license revenue.' Fastview has positioned Japan as its top-priority market in East Asia for its AI licensing model and is accelerating collaboration with domestic media and AI businesses.
**480,000 AI Bots Confirmed, 31 Times Human Traffic**
In a private test conducted with 10 selected partners prior to the official beta launch (a period of about 2 weeks), a daily newspaper with a monthly traffic of 15 million page views confirmed approximately 480,000 accesses by AI bots, separate from regular reader access. The number of bots reached about 31 times that of human traffic.
It was confirmed that major bots scraped approximately 34,000 pages (ChatGPT-User), 11,000 pages (ClaudeBot), and 8,000 pages (PerplexityBot). Despite explicitly blocking them in robots.txt, about 150,000 bypass accesses were also detected. The reality that 'content is being used by AI with almost no return in traffic' was quantified for the first time through four types of indicators.
Based on these results, the management and editorial executives of the media companies participating in the test are considering negotiating license fees with AI operators, verifying ad traffic quality, and taking legal action against bots that bypass robots.txt.
**Multilingual Feed & Direct Feed Officially Launched for 7 Languages & 27 Platforms**
Viewus consists of four products: 'Multilingual Feed,' 'Direct Feed,' 'AI Tracker,' and 'RightsHub.' The two products officially launched this time are Multilingual Feed and Direct Feed.
The Multilingual Feed uses a proprietary LLM infrastructure to translate Japanese content into six languages in real-time: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, German, and French. It provides ready-to-publish translated versions and multilingual metadata that reflect the style, cultural background, and local SEO keywords of each medium. It is currently in trial operation with over a dozen major domestic media companies, with plans to gradually expand partnerships following the official launch.
The Direct Feed directly integrates with local publishers in Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe via API. It eliminates the hassle of individual negotiations, contracts, distribution, and settlement for each medium, allowing for centralized management of global multi-channel distribution with Viewus alone.
Under this system, it has steadily built a track record. In Korea, it achieved 62 million monthly page views since the start of partnerships, expanding to 9 platforms including Daum and MSN. In North America, it gained a foothold with SNS distribution to the U.S. through 'ZAPZEE,' a K-content channel with 14 million subscribers, and cumulative overseas traffic has exceeded 900 million page views.
**AI Tracker & RightsHub Beta Release in H2, from Negotiation to Revenue Collection**
AI Tracker integrates scraping detection, LLM bot monitoring, content usage analysis, and traffic inflow analysis to grasp in real-time how global LLMs and generative AI are learning and citing content. Understanding which AI models are using their content and how has become an urgent task for media operators.
RightsHub provides integrated management for all areas related to content rights, including international IP protection, copyright management automation, license management, and ownership tracking. 'The usage data obtained with AI Tracker is directly linked to the monetization functions of RightsHub, such as licensing procedures, bot billing, and marketplaces. We have confirmed at the beta stage that AI licensing is moving from the negotiation phase to the actual revenue collection phase,' the company explains.
'The four products are not independent SaaS solutions, but an integrated platform that completes the entire process—from content creation and multilingual translation to overseas distribution, AI learning, and collection as license revenue—in a single data flow,' the company states.
**Cumulative Sales Over 12 Billion JPY, Overseas Ratio 22.4%, Driven by the Japanese Market**
Fastview achieved sales of approximately 3.6 billion JPY and an operating profit of about 160 million JPY in its global operations in 2024, marking its first-ever profitability since its founding.
As the unauthorized learning of media content by generative AI becomes a pressing issue for the entire industry, Viewus was developed as an integrated infrastructure that 'visualizes the usage of content by AI and enables its recovery as license revenue.' Fastview has positioned Japan as its top-priority market in East Asia for its AI licensing model and is accelerating collaboration with domestic media and AI businesses.
**480,000 AI Bots Confirmed, 31 Times Human Traffic**
In a private test conducted with 10 selected partners prior to the official beta launch (a period of about 2 weeks), a daily newspaper with a monthly traffic of 15 million page views confirmed approximately 480,000 accesses by AI bots, separate from regular reader access. The number of bots reached about 31 times that of human traffic.
It was confirmed that major bots scraped approximately 34,000 pages (ChatGPT-User), 11,000 pages (ClaudeBot), and 8,000 pages (PerplexityBot). Despite explicitly blocking them in robots.txt, about 150,000 bypass accesses were also detected. The reality that 'content is being used by AI with almost no return in traffic' was quantified for the first time through four types of indicators.
Based on these results, the management and editorial executives of the media companies participating in the test are considering negotiating license fees with AI operators, verifying ad traffic quality, and taking legal action against bots that bypass robots.txt.
**Multilingual Feed & Direct Feed Officially Launched for 7 Languages & 27 Platforms**
Viewus consists of four products: 'Multilingual Feed,' 'Direct Feed,' 'AI Tracker,' and 'RightsHub.' The two products officially launched this time are Multilingual Feed and Direct Feed.
The Multilingual Feed uses a proprietary LLM infrastructure to translate Japanese content into six languages in real-time: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, German, and French. It provides ready-to-publish translated versions and multilingual metadata that reflect the style, cultural background, and local SEO keywords of each medium. It is currently in trial operation with over a dozen major domestic media companies, with plans to gradually expand partnerships following the official launch.
The Direct Feed directly integrates with local publishers in Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe via API. It eliminates the hassle of individual negotiations, contracts, distribution, and settlement for each medium, allowing for centralized management of global multi-channel distribution with Viewus alone.
Under this system, it has steadily built a track record. In Korea, it achieved 62 million monthly page views since the start of partnerships, expanding to 9 platforms including Daum and MSN. In North America, it gained a foothold with SNS distribution to the U.S. through 'ZAPZEE,' a K-content channel with 14 million subscribers, and cumulative overseas traffic has exceeded 900 million page views.
**AI Tracker & RightsHub Beta Release in H2, from Negotiation to Revenue Collection**
AI Tracker integrates scraping detection, LLM bot monitoring, content usage analysis, and traffic inflow analysis to grasp in real-time how global LLMs and generative AI are learning and citing content. Understanding which AI models are using their content and how has become an urgent task for media operators.
RightsHub provides integrated management for all areas related to content rights, including international IP protection, copyright management automation, license management, and ownership tracking. 'The usage data obtained with AI Tracker is directly linked to the monetization functions of RightsHub, such as licensing procedures, bot billing, and marketplaces. We have confirmed at the beta stage that AI licensing is moving from the negotiation phase to the actual revenue collection phase,' the company explains.
'The four products are not independent SaaS solutions, but an integrated platform that completes the entire process—from content creation and multilingual translation to overseas distribution, AI learning, and collection as license revenue—in a single data flow,' the company states.
**Cumulative Sales Over 12 Billion JPY, Overseas Ratio 22.4%, Driven by the Japanese Market**
Fastview achieved sales of approximately 3.6 billion JPY and an operating profit of about 160 million JPY in its global operations in 2024, marking its first-ever profitability since its founding.