Views on long-form YouTube videos rose sharply over the past year while the ads running against them fell by half, according to a new report from social media tool Metricool. The report provides an overview of 799,718 videos from 71,177 accounts around the world, comparing data from February 2025 with February 2026. Most of the […]
Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates
Google’s Gary Illyes said on LinkedIn that he’d have to check whether a site can safely extend an unavailable_after date. His first read, which he called a gut feeling, was that pushing the date forward is fine, but he left open whether the tag can be trusted for pages that expire and then get renewed. […]