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Google is now promoting YouTube creator partnerships on branded search outcomes, as well as on views, engagement, and subscribers, but the playbook making that pitch never explains how a brand without an internal data science team is supposed to measure it. Buried inside “Creator Marketing: Build Edition,” the case studies are doing something more specific […]
YouTube has announced updates to the YouTube Partner Program, starting February 1, 2027. New creators will need twice the current watch hours or Shorts views to earn revenue from ads and Premium. But channels already in the program will keep their YPP status under the new entry rule. Additionally, YouTube’s help pages list a few […]
For much of the past 18 months, paid search growth has coincided with growing pressure on organic traffic. AI Overviews and other zero-click search experiences have made organic clicks harder to capture. At the same time, advertisers have continued to increase paid media investment, reinforcing the idea that paid could absorb at least some of […]
Welcome to this week’s Pulse: updates on your search data sources, AI-flagged pages in rankings, and potential impacts of opting out of Google’s AI features. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone Google made Search Console platform properties available to everyone worldwide, three weeks after […]
TL;DR AI search reshaped how people discover and evaluate brands in 2025. Visibility now depends on freshness, off-site credibility, content clarity and how clearly content can be interpreted inside answers—not just how it ranks. Brand visibility is in a constant state of fluctuation. Only 30% of brands stay visible from one answer to the next, […]
I promised this one at the end of the ChatGPT teardown. I’ve since had to go back to ChatGPT again in a follow-up because it moved under me while the post was still fresh. Perplexity was next, so here it is. The question hasn’t changed, only the logo. “How do I show up in Perplexity?” And […]
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 […]
OpenAI shut down the Sora app in a two-sentence social media post in late March, but the reason it collapsed had nothing to do with video quality. The company wrote that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app,” according to the Associated Press, after months of pressure over deepfakes of Michael Jackson, Martin Luther […]
I uploaded my first YouTube video in August 2006. It was 42 seconds long, promoted an 11-part Christian Science Monitor series about a kidnapped journalist named Jill Carroll, and picked up a grand total of 1,908 views. My client at the time wasn’t impressed by that number, and honestly, neither was I. Then, the story […]
YouTube outlines three content categories that could disqualify a channel from the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). These categories are detailed on YouTube’s channel monetization policy page and were explained by Matt Halprin, Vice President of Trust and Safety at YouTube, in a Creator Insider video. The Three Categories 1. Generic/Repetitive When content looks templated or barely changes from […]