Well, that's a change... Google will pay some news publishers to license their content for a new service it's launching this year. News outlets have been wanting this for years. But why is Google finally doing it now?
This is a step in that direction... Google's future news service will include content from local and national news publications ā and the news agencies will get a piece of the ad money Google brings in when you scroll. It has a few on board already, and is looking to expand. It's not the first to dabble in paying publishers:
This aims to solve two existential problems... for news publishers: