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Google Outlines New Deal to Pay French Publishers for Use of Their Content

Social Media Today

Google has announced a new deal to share revenue with French publishers while avoiding more complex regulation on the same.

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The Australian Government Looks to Implement New Laws to Make Google and Facebook Pay News Publishers

Social Media Today

The Australian Government is looking to force Google and Facebook to pay local publishers for usage of their content in an effort to assist news publishers struggling due to COVID-19.

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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top stories this week include Facebook’s crackdown, Google’s continuing investment in quality news, another new Instagram feature, the final throes of Google’s G+ and how all emoji are being treated equal on Twitter. Google supports quality news publishers in digital transformation. — SS.

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Facebook Rejects Australian Government's Proposal to Make Facebook and Google Pay News Publishers

Social Media Today

Facebook has rebuffed the Australian Government's proposal for a mandatory code that would make Google and Facebook pay for their use of news content.

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How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.

Adam Sherk

Google News has been in the news itself lately, from European efforts to impose taxes to questions about its value and even suggestions for giving it a full redesign. But just how much traffic is it currently driving to publishers? News Sites Ranked by Google News Traffic. Jan-Nov 2014) Percentage of. total search visits.

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How Buffer’s Content Team Collaborates + Our Content Calendar Template

Buffer Social

The world of social media and content marketing is a fast-moving space. At Buffer, not only are we writing and publishing blog and social media posts every day, we’re also a fully remote and distributed company. For our Content team, in particular, we’re four people spread out across three timezones.

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Take Advantage of Additional Google News Opportunities for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Google News continues to be an important source of traffic for publishers, in particular from the news OneBoxes that are frequently included in regular Web search results. While not as impactful as key news search optimization tactics, the tag offers another way to establish the topical relevancy of your content.

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