Looking Back at Google’s Digital News Initiative Event in Berlin: Tweets and Links (#DNIBerlin)

Google’s Digital News Initiative held its first event in Berlin on Friday last week. About 190 news publishers from all over Europe convened at Humbold Carrée to discuss various Google projects, e.g. the DNI Innovation Fund, the Google News Lab, the brand-new Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, the Trust Project and YouTube’s upcoming Embedded Player (no official link yet, but there are a TNW story and a German Horizont article).

I compiled some of my tweets and retweets from the event (hashtag #DNIBerlin):

Standing room only at the Google Digital News Initiative Event. #DNIBerlin… https://t.co/8RoKXS6lgi pic.twitter.com/EZvsXldvlY

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

192 people attending #DNIBerlin. Promising to be a highly interesting day! @googlenewslab pic.twitter.com/1Qed5gfqqM

— Jochen Spangenberg (@jospang) November 6, 2015

David Besbris just presented Google's open source initiative Accelerated Mobile Pages: https://t.co/x8rDiKoeE3 #DNIBerlin

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

There is a live demo of Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project: https://t.co/V9ICZWX8Uj. AMP homepage: https://t.co/dSh3jvQCbH #DNIBerlin

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

you really should check out this Accelerated Mobile Pages WordPress plugin #DNIBerlin https://t.co/qfwsNXSNJu

— William Perrin (@willperrin) November 6, 2015

What Spotify was to music piracy, Google is hoping AMP will be to ad blocking – make the UX good to make the bad behaviour stop #DNIBerlin

— Alex Watson (@Sifter) November 6, 2015

The kind of questions searched throughout UK general election. @guardian made an article answering them #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/ZxVG48Wc2v

— eduardosuarez (@eduardosuarez) November 6, 2015

over three years since i wrote on google opening up geotags in Guardian – some promise of progress now at #dniberlin https://t.co/oERMhZZMBS

— William Perrin (@willperrin) November 6, 2015

I can teach a nine year old in a few weeks how to write an ad blocker – thomas schreiber germany ad blocking capital of world #dniberlin

— William Perrin (@willperrin) November 6, 2015

Martin Kotynek (@martin_k) and Mario Calabresi (@mariocalabresi) introduced https://t.co/1JI5W9g036 (journos vs. online chaos). #DNIBerlin

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

the trust project needs to engage with this tricky UK data over 20 years on trust in professions #dniberlin https://t.co/nJRGXXar8B

— William Perrin (@willperrin) November 6, 2015

Attribution, fact checked, transparent editorial process, declaration of interests, original reporting – attributes of trust #dniberlin

— William Perrin (@willperrin) November 6, 2015

Google just introduced Annoyingness as a metric. Love it. "We have to get our annoyance rating down." #DNIBerlin

— Frederik Fischer (@FrederikFischer) November 6, 2015

#DNIBerlin slides of the day: selection criteria for DNI innovation fund deadline Dec 4 projects announced Feb 2016 pic.twitter.com/SC4wHwzSiv

— DW Innovation (@dw_innovation) November 6, 2015

Ein Drittel aller Top-Suchen auf YouTube haben einen News-Hintergrund. #DNIBerlin

— Johannes Bornewasser (@bornewasser) November 6, 2015

YouTube hat die letzten Monate am Such-Algorithmus zu News-Gunsten geschraubt. Plus mehr Ad-Möglichkeiten. #DNIBerlin #video #journalism

— Martin Jungfer (@MartinJungfer) November 6, 2015

Ben McOwen-Wilson showed interesting @YouTube statistics – and talked about the YT Embedded Player pilot. #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/10Swryqbpg

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

The links on the above photo

• YouTube press room: Statistics (2015)
• Pew Research Center: YouTube & News – a New Kind of Visual News (2012)

Here it is – @YouTube has now a player especially for publishers that gives you video views and money! #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/HmSBG49AWh

— Gerold Riedmann (@GeroldRiedmann) November 6, 2015

A YouTube offer for #bbc #charterreview – due prominence and Embedded Player? #DNIBerlin via @willperrin https://t.co/dHo7zYVdvO

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

Monetization table of YouTube player #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/m67ol3wVye

— JP (@jeromealigre) November 6, 2015

80% of youtube users are outside the US. Surprised by that.Localised in 85 countries and 76 languages. 1/3 top searched are news #dniBerlin

— Sarah Hartley (@foodiesarah) November 6, 2015

.@isasun stellt beim #DNIBerlin Event das Toolkit für #Journalisten @googlenewslab vor: https://t.co/zK8e01QIUw pic.twitter.com/FrJh7KShL9

— Journalisten-Verband (@DJVde) November 6, 2015

Jetzt geht's um den DNI Innovation Fund. Kommt leider nichts vom Podium, was nicht genau so schon auf der DNI-Seite zu lesen ist. #DNIBerlin

— Volker Matthies (@VolkerMatthies) November 6, 2015

TV #news consumption stronger in #Germany than other countries, #social adoption slower, lower reach of digital news players #DNIBerlin

— Katharina Borchert (@lyssaslounge) November 6, 2015

70% of smartphone users have downloaded a news app. Only a third use the on a weekly basis. #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/5qjFCxAiul

— Torsten Beeck (@TorstenBeeck) November 6, 2015

The Reuters Institute's Digital News Report is available here: https://t.co/AwqPqWd3M9. #DNIBerlin @risj_oxford

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

Spannende Hashtags heute für Leute, die das Krankenbett hüten müssen (wie ich): #digijour2015 #ke15 #DNIBerlin

— jensbest (@jensbest) November 6, 2015

"Any Paywall-Questions? First question is free." (@richardgingras) #DNIBerlin #NerdHumor

— Johannes Bornewasser (@bornewasser) November 6, 2015

Interesting fact (via David Bebris): @WordPress is used by 24.9% of all websites monitored by @W3Techs. https://t.co/uAsKXfWl6L #DNIBerlin

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

Geotagging your blog posts and Google search – at last signs of progress #DNIBerlin via @willperrin https://t.co/wYkbGqCPpC

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

The most important links, hashtags and people for Google's Digital News Initiative event: https://t.co/rRo27vKzr6 via @tame_it #DNIBerlin

— Peter Jebsen (@pjebsen) November 6, 2015

These guys did an awesome job seducing publishers. Facebook, your move #DNIBerlin pic.twitter.com/miiPvNZaO9

— Diogo Q Andrade (@dqandrade) November 6, 2015

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Jahreskonferenz des Netzwerks Recherche: Die #nr15-Twitter-“Presseschau”
Looking Back at GEN Summit 2015: Tweets and Links (#GENsummit)
Google Trends jetzt in Echtzeit
The Top Tweets of Perugia’s International Journalism Festival 2015 (#IJF15)
Looking Back at News Impact Summit Hamburg: Tweets and Links (#NISHBR)

Peter Jebsen
(Member of the federal executive board of
German Federation of Journalists DJV)