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Users “look for that lightning bolt and want every article to be an Instant Article.”
The news was mostly bad for publishers and news organizations last year.
The speed gains are very real. But do publishers want to trade in the open space of what we’ve known as the web for yet another platform they have little control over?
Pretty worried, it turns out! At least according to the CEO of the trade organization formerly known as the Online Publishers Association.
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?