Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says

And it’s the amount that Google made from the work of news publishers in 2018 via search and Google News, according to a study to be released on Monday by the News Media Alliance. “They make money off this arrangement,” Mr. Chavern said, “and there needs to be a better outcome for news publishers.” That $4.7 billion is nearly as much as the $5.1 billion brought in by the United States news industry as a whole from digital advertising last year — and the News Media Alliance cautioned that its estimate for Google’s income was conservative.

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