In recent communications, both Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Google CEO Sundar Pichai already referred to the platform as Google Meet. But unofficially, it was already picked up by attentive tech magazines and news outlets, who noticed the name change earlier. The name change was officially announced last week.

We wouldn’t be surprised if the other ‘Hangouts’ products will also undergo some changes in the coming months. This rebranding will no doubt simplify the confusion that exists since a few years around the naming of Google Cloud applications in G Suite like Google Hangouts Chat, Google Hangouts and Google Hangouts Meet, the latter now becoming a simplified ‘Google Meet’. Google is now dropping the “Hangouts” from the name, rebranding it to Google Meet.

In case you didn’t know, Google Hangouts Meet’s online video conferencing application has been around for many years as a part of Google’s G Suite collaboration suite. Despite this growth spark, the Google Cloud network handles this increased demand without any problems nor outages As a result, its daily usage is more than 25 times what it was in January. Over the last few weeks, Google Meet’s day-over-day growth surpassed 60%.Every day, 2 million new users are using Google Meet.That’s over 3,800 years of secure meetings every single day Google Meet now serves 2B minutes of video calls per day around the world.Witness of this increase in video conferencing usage are the most recent impressive growth statistics of Google Meet: In-person meetings and events are being replaced with video meetings of all kinds. In the unprecedented times we’re living in due to the coronavirus pandemic, more and more businesses have no other option than to do teleworking. Organising video meetings with Google Meet is a breeze, and more and more businesses are discovering this power of easy-to-create and easy-to-join online video conferencing with Google’s video conferencing tool. And Google just made it more attractive to try the rebranded Google Meet, with an offer businesses can’t refuse. Many businesses now rely on video conferencing tools. Google Meet has seen an explosive increase in users, up to 2 million new users per day, because of the COVID-19 pandemic that forces workplaces to rethink their meetings. Google has officially announced the name change and now calls its video conferencing platform Google Meet.

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