Statement from CEO: Google Subscription Support Update
This morning, Google announced an update to First Click Free and other initiatives to help support digital subscriptions for publishers. […]
This morning, Google announced an update to First Click Free and other initiatives to help support digital subscriptions for publishers. […]
In an effort to support more real news and increase public trust in the news media, Google News Lab, in
Today, the News Media Alliance – representing almost 2,000 news organizations – called on Congress to allow publishers to negotiate collectively with dominant online platforms. The objective is to permit publishers to have concrete discussions with the two dominant distributors of online news content, Google and Facebook, on business model solutions to secure the long-term availability of local journalism produced by America’s newsrooms.
This decision by the EU clearly points to the need for US regulators to take more seriously the challenges posed by Google and other tech giants.
While we appreciate the energy and resources that Google has brought, as a partner of the Coalition for Better Ads (launched last September), to the effort to improve the customer experience around digital advertising, we are very concerned to learn that Google appears to be taking unilateral action to implement the Coalition’s standards by adding an ad blocking feature within Chrome that would block all advertising to websites that do not comply with these new standards.
Today the London-based News Media Association called for an urgent investigation into the impact of Google, Facebook and the digital advertising supply chain on journalists’ ability to operate in a world increasingly threatened by fake news.