Google News Showcase becomes available, a section of the Google News or Discovery app at the basis of the agreements between Google and the publishers and which will be worth a payment, upstream, by the Mountain View giant that on the chapter, worldwide, has put in I count a dowry of $ 1 billion over three years. Among the interested editors are Il Sole 24 Ore, Caltagirone Editore, Ciaopeople, Citynews, Monrif Group, Il Foglio Quotidiano, RCS Media Group and many others, for a total of 13 editorial groups and 76 national and local publications. The agreements between Google and publishers were signed last week. Now the dedicated section will be available.
Enhanced content
«On Google News and Discover it will be possible to find new dedicated cards, with enriched contents and in-depth news, edited by our partner publishers. At the moment there are over 70 publications, both national, local and independent, which will appear on News Showcase thanks to the agreements announced last week, agreements that take into account the rights provided by Article 15 of the European Copyright Directive in relation to specific uses online of journalistic publications »reads a blogpost.
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The copyright node
Individual publishers will choose the stories to be presented in the “showcase” panel. And Google, as mentioned, will pay upstream for this production. In fact, this is the main tool with which the search giant will aim to smooth out the roughness of the relationship with publishers, also put to the test by the dispute over the approval of the EU Copyright Directive, first translated into its national legislation by France. In-depth content will have greater visibility on both Google News and Google Discover (a Google app service that offers news updates based on user preferences). As part of the license agreement, readers will also be offered the ability to access selected content behind paywalls. It is a selection of paid content and the goal, in this case, is also to push towards subscriptions.
How does it work
“Readers – reads the blogpost – will have access to both the News Showcase panels of the publications that follow on their personalized feed, and to the panels of publishers with whom they are less familiar, presented as suggestions in the” For you “feed of Google News and inside “Newsstand”, the Google News discovery area ».