Exclusive Dutch Deals for LexisNexis
Media monitoring companies have been advised by Dutch newspaper owners Mediahuis that their Netherlands titles have made an exclusive agreement with LexisNexis. This means any client with more than 100 staff would need a licence with LexisNexis to access data from these publishers through their MMO. The licensing program for Mediahuis is the Alliance Partner deal LN have used with Cision in USA, where press content is delivered by the MMO but licensed by LexisNexis. DPG Media has had a similar agreement with LexisNexis for many years. Titles owned by Mediahuis and DPG outside Holland are not included. MMOs have expressed concern that they will need to disclose clients to a competitor.
The new arrangement coincides with (but is not a result of) the effective winding up of CLIP, the Dutch publisher licensing body and PDLN member, at the end of 2019. CLIP was only a licence solution for the smaller clients. CLIP was weakened by its partial coverage of the Netherland market, with some publishers licensing MMOs directly, other exclusive deals, and the media monitoring service of the AAP newswire. The Dutch publishers have announced they will offer an alternative for CLIP in the first quarter of 2020.
