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# Reports of Google+'s death have been greatly exaggerated
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/06/google-plus-updates/
- Published: 2014-06-18T11:10:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-02T11:37:01.000Z
- Description: Google+ is still being developed. For now.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: analytics, Google, Social Media, social networks, google+

Remember all those tech press stories declaring Google+ dead after the [departure of Vic Gundotra](http://recode.net/2014/04/24/exclusive-google-head-vic-gundotra-leaving-company/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)?

This happened [a week ago](https://plus.google.com/+EddieKessler/posts/6k3ncnxrLfU?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Many of you have asked for more data about how your social content is performing and who your audience is on Google+. So starting today, we’re offering all Google+ pages access to Insights reports. Insights provides key info that helps you tailor and optimize your Google+ content, including:
> 
> - Visibility: All time total, photo, and post views, and how page impressions have trended over time.
> - Engagement: Which types of posts are getting the highest level of engagement on Google+.
> - Audience: Get an overview of your follower demographics.

And then yesterday, [Google+ premium happened](http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/06/17/premium-google-features-including-hd-quality-hangouts-roll-google-apps-customers/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Apps customers have long been able to host Hangouts with up to 15 people, but now the sessions will be available in HD-quality — together Google believes that will “save time and money”. Premium also enables more granular privacy controls, letting Google+ users set their posts as restricted to their domain (thus visible to colleagues and employers only) if they wish, or hide their profiles from public searches.

There’s a full break-down of what’s being offered on [the Google Enterprise Blog](http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-best-of-google-for-our-apps.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

These are not the moves of a company winding down a product.

Beware online journalists who report or repeat rumour and speculation as if it was fact…