Google will invest $ 1 billion for its new News Showcase platform
The tech giant will partner with news publishers for the next three years
The Google company has announced that it will invest $ 1 billion to partner with news publishers over the next three years for its new News Showcase platform. The company has indicated that it will pay publishers to “create and select high-quality content for a different kind of online news experience.”
The News Showcase offers readers “more information on the stories that matter,” while helping publishers develop “deeper” relationships with their audiences, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement.
This new Google platform will initially appear to users with the Android operating system on Google News, although it will launch soon on iOS and will come to Discover and Search in the future.
News Showcase allows participating publishers to “package” the stories that appear in Google News, offering a “deeper storytelling and more context” thanks to timelines, bullets and related articles, although in the future they will also add videos, audio and daily briefings.
The new platform will be implemented this Thursday in Brazil and Germany, and will reach other countries in the coming months. So far the company has signed News Showcase partnerships with nearly 200 publishers in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the UK and Australia, including Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, Folha de S. Paulo, Band and Infobae.
Source: dpa
