YouTube Blocks Ad Blockers Amid Declining Ad Revenue via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google Shopping results have shown top highlights for products some time but now it seems Google is testing showing the number of available product highlights in the carousel of product results in Google Search.

Google has announced a search system named “topic authority” to help surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and Google News. Google said this “helps determine which expert sources are helpful to someone’s newsy query in certain specialized topic areas, such as health, politics, or finance.” Not new. Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, later said on Twitter that this is an old ranking system that they are just talking about now. “To add a bit more, this isn’t a new system that’s just launched. […]

We’re no longer in that phase where everyone was saying, “Video is blowing up.” Nope. Video has blown up, and it’s here. It’s there. It’s everywhere. These days, audiences expect and demand video content from creators and brands. On average, people watch 19 hours of online video per week – and across the last three years alone, consumption increased by 8.5 hours per week.  What does this mean for marketers? For businesses? If you aren’t creating video content yet, you should seriously consider it. In this […]