Google News is about to get a makeover, according to a report by Ad Age.
The redesign of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) free news aggregator will include elements of the digital magazine app Google Newsstand and videos from YouTube’s news section.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced at the company’s Brandcast event that the video platform now has 1.8 billion logged-in users per month.
As a result of the redesign, Google Newsstand is expected to close but be replaced by a new Google news app.
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The plans are expected to be announced next week during Google I/O, the search giant’s developer conference.
“It’s a consolidation of all the ways you can interact with news on Google. There are a lot of Google services where you find news and what they’re trying to do is bring it all under one brand,” a public executive with knowledge of the plans told Ad Age.
Google will utilize the technology behind Accelerated Mobile Pages, the same tech that publishers use to load articles onto the platform.
Shares of parent company Alphabet were down slightly in Friday pre-market trading to US$1,021.31.