Online Publishers Are Ditching Google

Online Publishers Are Ditching Google
The Google logo is seen outside the Google Germany offices in Berlin on Aug. 31, 2021. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Multiple leading online publishers look to ditch Alphabet Inc.’s Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages program to optimize readers’ mobile-browsing experience, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Media executives admitted that dropping AMP would give them more control over their page designs and ad formats, and make it easier to sell ad space in auctions, ultimately boosting competition and prices for their ad space.