{"id":8017,"date":"2020-04-29T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2535862"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:41:00","slug":"googles-meet-teleconferencing-service-now-adding-about-3-million-users-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/googles-meet-teleconferencing-service-now-adding-about-3-million-users-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"PSNTZO8gXFUe+cpCZyApw0vEKWPT4b14D6teBEocIAE=_171c2de580f:417b376:f050c342_entryBody\" class=\"entryBody\" title=\"\">\n<div id=\"PSNTZO8gXFUe+cpCZyApw0vEKWPT4b14D6teBEocIAE=_171c2de580f:417b376:f050c342_entryContent\" class=\"content\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/MJVq2JbnvVN7-MjG6ZHULZuvsGc=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723413\/acastro_180427_1777_0003.0.jpg\" width=\"795\" height=\"530\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/MJVq2JbnvVN7-MjG6ZHULZuvsGc=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723413\/acastro_180427_1777_0003.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/MJVq2JbnvVN7-MjG6ZHULZuvsGc=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723413\/acastro_180427_1777_0003.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Illustration: Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Google&rsquo;s Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company&rsquo;s first quarter earnings call. That&rsquo;s up quite a bit from earlier this month &mdash; Google had said that more than 2 million new users were were connecting on the service every day&nbsp;as of April 9th. Meet&rsquo;s significant growth is likely driven by increased usage of the service as schools and workplaces have had to host classes and meetings online while at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last week, we surpassed a significant milestone,&rdquo;&nbsp;said Pichai&nbsp;on today&rsquo;s earnings call. &ldquo;We are now adding roughly 3 million new users each day and have seen a thirty-fold increase in usage since January. There are now over 100 million daily Meet meeting participants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>Google is adding new features to Meet to help it compete with rivals<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>To encourage organizations to use Meet, which is part of Google&rsquo;s G Suite productivity apps, Google rolled out free access to some advanced features of Meet&nbsp;on March 3rd&nbsp;and said it would be extending free access to those features until September 30th&nbsp;on April 9th. Google is also adding new features to Meet to help it better compete with rivals like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, including a&nbsp;Zoom-like gallery view&nbsp;and background noise cancelation. Meet&rsquo;s 100 million daily users is lower than Zoom&rsquo;s&nbsp;300 million daily users, however.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, Google&rsquo;s parent company, reported earned $6.8 billion in profit on revenue of $41.2 billion for the&nbsp;first fiscal quarter of 2020. Google&rsquo;s cloud computing division, which includes G Suite, earned $2.8 billion, up 55 percent from the first quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data=\"{&quot;stories&quot;:[{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Alphabet weathers first quarter after the novel coronavirus, but the worst is yet to come&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240339\/alphabet-google-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-profit-ad-business&quot;},{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Google Meet&rsquo;s Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out now globally&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/22\/21231294\/google-meet-gallery-tiled-view-roll-out-globally-zoom&quot;},{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Google extends free access to advanced teleconferencing features to September 30th&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/9\/21215420\/google-free-access-advanced-meet-features-extension-teleconference&quot;}]}\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fx pdfLinkHolder decoration-holder\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"tagsHolder decoration-holder\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"PSNTZO8gXFUe+cpCZyApw0vEKWPT4b14D6teBEocIAE=_171c2de580f:417b376:f050c342_wallHolder\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240434\/google-meet-three-million-users-per-day-pichai-earnings\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240434\/google-meet-three-million-users-per-day-pichai-earnings<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/> Jay Peters<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p> Jay Peters<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration: Alex Castro \/ The Verge Google&rsquo;s Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company&rsquo;s first quarter earnings call. That&rsquo;s up quite a bit from earlier this month &mdash; Google had said that more than 2 million new users were were connecting on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/29\/googles-meet-teleconferencing-service-now-adding-about-3-million-users-per-day\/\">Continue reading <span>Google&rsquo;s Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per day<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/googles-meet-teleconferencing-service-now-adding-about-3-million-users-per-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google\u2019s Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per day - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/googles-meet-teleconferencing-service-now-adding-about-3-million-users-per-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google\u2019s Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per day - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Illustration: Alex Castro \/ The Verge Google&rsquo;s Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company&rsquo;s first quarter earnings call. 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