About Google Meet
The video call that already came with the inbox.
Google Meet launched on 9 March 2017 as Hangouts Meet, the enterprise video product separated from consumer Hangouts. In April 2020 Google opened the free tier to any consumer Google account, and Meet usage grew thirty-fold between January and April 2020 to about 100 million daily users at the peak. The product was rebranded to Google Meet, and on 1 November 2022 the older Google Duo app folded into Meet on mobile. Today Meet sits inside Google Workspace next to Gmail and Calendar on the paying side, and on the free Google account on the consumer side, with a sixty-minute cap on group calls outside Workspace plans.
For most Workspace shops Meet is the default video call because it is already there. The link is generated by Calendar when the invite is created, the join button sits in the event body and in Gmail, and the recording (when one is made) lands in the host's Drive. Our connector pulls the Meet activity surface into your warehouse: conference IDs, meeting codes, the calendar event behind each call, participants, join and leave times, device type and call-quality signals. That metadata is enough to answer questions Workspace admins, sales-ops and people-ops have been asking on quarterly export PDFs. Which meetings really held versus the ones the Calendar invite said would happen. Which participants kept dropping because of network quality. Which recurring Meet links carry calls every week and which ones became a phantom slot on twelve calendars.