# Videos: selling and buying AI training data

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Plain-English explainers presented by Gareth Hoyle. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@SellMyDataToAI

- [How to Sell Company Data to AI Companies (9 Steps)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbNxvLpGjg) (8 min): AI companies and the training-data firms that supply them are paying operating businesses for their internal records. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, walks through how to license your company's data to AI buyers, from the first inventory to the signed license and payment. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/how-to-sell-data-to-ai-companies
- [What Is Your Company Data Worth to AI? Offers vs Sales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwPifTKJlk) (8 min): What AI companies say they will pay for company data and what companies actually receive are two very different numbers. AIData.Broker, as quoted by Don't Do It Yourself, puts the median published offer at $280,000 and the median public sale at $31,600. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/how-much-is-your-data-worth-to-ai
- [Is It Legal to Sell Company Data for AI Training in the US?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwN2nHvLBA) (8 min): Selling or licensing company data for AI training is legal in the US in principle, but there is no single law that allows it. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, explains what US statutes and regulators say about licensing company records to AI buyers. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/can-you-legally-sell-company-data-for-ai
- [How to Sell Slack and Email Archives for AI Training](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ropfR5VxSf0) (8 min): Slack, Microsoft Teams and email archives record how a company really works, and AI buyers now pay for them. Google's $10 million winning bid for Spirit Airlines' data covered about 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, according to MIT Technology Review. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/sell-slack-data-for-ai-training
- [Closing Your Startup? How to Sell Its Data to AI Buyers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuPJVYdXfA) (8 min): Closed and closing startups are now a regular source of AI training data. MIT Technology Review reported that one winding-down crypto startup received about $25,000 for its codebase, and SimpleClosure says typical payments run $10,000 to $100,000 per company, as reported by Fortune. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/selling-data-from-a-closed-company
- [Mercor vs micro1 vs Handshake AI: Payouts and Terms Compared](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03E8-QNYDg) (7 min): micro1, Mercor and Handshake AI all license operational records from companies and supply them to AI labs, but they publish very different terms. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, sets out what each company publishes on its own pages, checked in November 2026. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/compare/mercor-vs-micro1
- [AI Training Data Lawsuits Explained: What Courts Decided](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0Qel4I1Us) (7 min): Sell My Data To AI tracks the significant lawsuits and rulings over using data to train AI models. As of November 2026 the tracker covers 37 cases, 26 of them in US courts, and the largest disclosed settlement is $1.5 billion in Bartz v. Anthropic. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/ai-training-data-lawsuits
- [Is Selling Company Data to AI Safe? 6 Real Risks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGLNFokAwPY) (8 min): Selling company data to AI buyers can be done safely, but it is never risk-free, and once a model is trained the data cannot practically be pulled back out. In this video, Gareth Hoyle, founder of Sell My Data To AI, sets out the six real risks and the safeguards that reduce them. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/guides/is-selling-company-data-to-ai-safe
- [How AI Labs Buy Training Data (and What They Pay)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fz-rsr92gw) (6 min): The biggest AI labs license data mainly through direct deals with large publishers and platforms, and most of those deals are announced without a price. Of the 25 deals in the Sell My Data To AI deals tracker, 14 have no disclosed value. The largest reported is OpenAI's agreement with News Corp, about $250 million over five years, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Full guide and transcript: https://sellmydatatoai.net/ai-data-deals