Even though YouTube removed a demographic data from creators recently, it is giving something back in return – an expanded list of features for creators who film live stream videos. Based on the information given in an announcement found on the YouTube blog, love streaming is going to include chat replay, automatic English captions, location tags, and IFTTT (If […]

YouTube is limiting the amount of data it is showing creators with a brand new round of updates to its Demographic Data report. From this point going forward, creators won’t be able to filter viewer demographics data by Translation Use or YouTube products – data from YouTube, YouTube Kids, and YouTube Gaming will now be […]

Looking at the Alexa traffic rankings, YouTube is the second most visited site on the web, with the first being Google.  Even with this information, there are a lot of digital marketers who are treating it like any other social media site.  If you’re looking for success, you need to understand that YouTube isn’t about […]

We all have our questions about the celebrities we love.  Does Will Ferrell actually play the drums?  Does Tracee Ellis Ross actually sing?  It’s possible to find out, as you can ask Google a question about a specific celebrity, you could lucky enough to get a self-recorded video from them answering your question. “When you […]

New filters are being added to Google’s trends data, which now makes it possible to see search trends beyond web search  Now, users can find real-time search trends on specific search tersm within YouTube, News and Image searches, along with Google Shopping. “We’re opening up more data to show what people in the world are […]

Here’s something odd – According to a number of executives in the advertising in the advertising and entertainment industries, influencer marketing platform FameBit has been oddly quiet since being acquired by Google’s YouTube one year ago.  One agency exec even said that they hadn’t heard from theme since going over to YouTube.  But now, the company is getting […]

The YouTube Studio app has received two new features that makes it easier for creators to manage their YouTube channels from their phones. According to the announcement on YouTube’s Creator Blog, creators can now schedule posts from their mobile devices via the app. “Now you’ll be able to schedule posts right from your phone so you […]

It’s no surprise that ranking number one in Google search is quite difficult.  But when it comes to ranking number one on YouTube search, it’s probably not quite as hard. The folks at Siege Media developed a process that is meant to achieve first-page rankings on YouTube search in less than a month.  This process […]

In an announcement by Google, video previews have been added to the video carousel that shows up in the search results.  Right now, this only occurs when you are using the Google ap for Android or using Chrome on Android. By toggling through videos in the carousel, it’ll show you a six-second preview of the video. […]

Google has confirmed that they are running a small experiment where they are auto-playing videos in the search results page.  The test was spotted by Jennifer Slegg after conducting some tests using Internet Explorer on the morning of July 24.  The video in the knowledge panel will begin playing automatically if you are in this experiment. A […]