Looker and Data Studio Newsletter: April 2026

                                                           

See the latest features in Looker and explore tips and best practices from Google Cloud and beyond.

April 2026 - Product Update   👋 Data Studio is back – and has a new, expanded mission The AI era is changing the way we all work with data, and so are our expectations for how to store, visualize and share that data. We are evolving Data Studio (formerly Looker Studio) to be the ideal choice for personal data exploration, and a new place to serve your Data Cloud content. READ OUR BLOG TO LEARN MORE Stay tuned for updates to this newsletter in coming months, as we bring back this beloved and familiar name.   Product News and Updates   Looker updates for agentic BI at Next '26 At Google Cloud Next, we shared how we are reimagining the business intelligence (BI) stack with Looker for the AI era, starting with a deeper integration with BigQuery. We are focused on delivering trusted data and prescriptive insights for everyone to take actions through Agentic BI. LEARN MORE LEARN MORE Share your BigQuery data agents to Data Studio You can now create data agents in BigQuery and publish them automatically to Data Studio for use with Conversational Analytics. LEARN MORE A new Conversational Analytics experience in Data Studio Conversational Analytics has a new experience that makes conversing with data agents and BigQuery data sources available to more users across Data Studio. LEARN MORE See the latest updates from our Help Center for Looker or for Data Studio.   Customer Showcase   PayPal secures and scales governed conversational analytics with Looker, MCP PayPal adopted Looker's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to provide secure, conversational analytics to its workforce, overcoming complex security challenges by automating credential encryption. By grounding AI interactions in Looker's governed data models, PayPal ensures accuracy and compliance while enabling 5,000 employees to query petabytes of data using natural language. READ THEIR STORY ALLO Fiber accelerates data-driven decisions with Looker and Conversational Analytics ALLO Fiber modernized its legacy data environment by adopting Looker and BigQuery, transitioning from manual reporting to a self-service model. By integrating conversational analytics and Gemini AI, the company now empowers teams to resolve complex business questions in minutes rather than days. READ THEIR STORY Subskribe accelerates SaaS growth with trusted, embedded analytics from Looker Subskribe leveraged Looker's embedded platform and LookML to provide accurate, persona-based financial reporting to customers. This "trusted metrics" approach allowed them to automate data delivery, significantly reducing engineering overhead and freeing the team to focus on core product development. READ THEIR STORY Interclínica: Closing the last mile data gap with Looker Conversational Analytics and AI Interclínica utilized Looker's conversational analytics API to create "SofIA," an AI agent that eliminates "cognitive friction" by allowing leaders to access complex healthcare KPIs through natural language. This transformation turned a manual, days-long reporting process into a minutes-long conversation, driving radical efficiency and better patient care. READ THEIR STORY       Thanks for reading our monthly update. GET STARTED Happy Reporting, The Data Studio Team   © 2026 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 This email was sent to pulipuli.chen@gmail.com because you indicated that you want to receive announcements about the latest changes, enhancements, and new features from the Data Studio team. If you do not wish to receive such emails in the future, please unsubscribe here.