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Articles tagged Accelerated Mobile Pages (10)

“Make the web great again,” Richard Gingras, Google’s head of news and social products, joked. (Or was it a joke?)
Including better support for paywalled sites, richer ad formats, and ways for publishers to direct readers elsewhere on their site from within an AMP article.
Facebook is encouraging developers to customize the open-source plugin as it prepares to open Instant Articles to everyone next month.
“There’s a lot more we can do in evolving the format. AMP is not just about news and not just about articles.”
“Everything we know about building a webpage, we have to relearn. But we’re relearning it from the premise of converting a current product over, not creating a product from scratch.”
Users “look for that lightning bolt and want every article to be an Instant Article.”
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?