Google News Initiative

In today’s newsletter: Google agrees to placement-level reporting across its Google Search Partners network; how an explosion of ads is ruining the internet; and Google pays publishers to test an unreleased generative AI tool.

For the next five months, Google is waiving its Ad Manager ad serving fees for news publishers around the globe, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Read the blog post. Many have seen ad revenue fall as national and local advertisers pull back, and as coronavirus-related keyword blocking makes it difficult to […]