Google announced on August 6, 2022 it will no longer support some of the video and image sitemap extension tags. These specifically impact the caption, geo_location, title and license tags or attributes within image sitemaps and category, player_loc[@allow_embed], player_loc[@autoplay], gallery_loc, price[@all] and tvshow[@all] within video sitemaps.
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