AMP Email

Interact with messages right in your inbox

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Interact with messages right in your inbox

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Thanks to Google’s AMP technology you can now interact with emails in your inbox just like you would with the web pages they often lead you to: look up hotel listings, fill out forms, and browse products you want to buy.

This is the 3rd launch from AMP Email. View more

Web Stories by Google

The visual storytelling format, now for your website.

Web Stories bring a familiar full-screen, tappable story format to the wide audience of the web. Now it's even easier for creators to create and publish Web Stories with the new Web Stories for WordPress plugin.

Launch tags:

Web App•Design Tools•Writing

Launch Team

Simon Gabriel

Oooh. This looks very interesting. I'm a UX Designer for an interior brand, I really think this would be very inspirational on site. I'm trying to visualise it on our ecom website and having a difficult time though as there are no examples I can see of the end result (all screenshots are of the tool). How does this work on desktop etc? Would be great if you had a link of a finished story on the web. Great work!

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5yr ago

Simon Gabriel

Forgive me, I found the https://wp.stories.google/ link and it has an example! However, launching the story here on Desktop seems buggy? Maybe it's me but it opens and plays fine, but then I can't seem to dismiss it

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5yr ago

Simon Gabriel

So that bug isn't a bug, it's just that stories open in a new URL? Though, I'm still confused at how these are dismissed if a user opens one. I think they'd naturally expect this is a modal rather than a new link 🤔

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5yr ago

Paul Bakaus

Google for Creators

@simongabriel one of the makers of the editor here. Totally hear you. On Desktop, we do have a Gutenberg/blog embed widget that allows you to embed the story itself on a page, with more integrations coming (e.g. modal). Stay tuned!

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5yr ago

Svend Court-Payen

Once

@simongabriel Agreed! Web stories for e-comm has a huge potential - here's one way to embed web stories on an e-comm website https://onceapp.myshopify.com/

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5yr ago

Simon Gabriel

@pbakaus thanks so much Paul! That sounds great. Very excited for its potential and I’m going to try and get a small feature through our next sprint to test it out. I’ve dropped you a follow on Twitter also and may send some tweets if I have any questions? Fantastic work! And brilliant launch.

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5yr ago

Pete Cashmore

This is really slick, congrats! 👏 I remember we built Stories for the web a few years back at Mashable -- ironically we called it Reels -- (maybe around the same time that Amp Stories started?) and quickly learned how tough it is to make the Stories format work on the open web. But you've really nailed it!!

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5yr ago