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Google’s SAFE AI Targets YouTube Spam, Not Search Rankings

Google’s new AI spam detector, SAFE, is designed for YouTube channels to combat AI-generated content networks, not Googl...

Palumbo Angela

September 26, 2026

YouTube adds shopping features to AI search tool, Ask YouTube

YouTube is enhancing its experimental Ask YouTube AI search with new shopping features, including product comparison tab...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

September 24, 2026

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YouTube expands pre-publication feedback tool for Shorts creators

YouTube is rolling out ‘Get Feedback,’ a new tool for creators to receive suggestions on their Shorts’ hook, pacing, and...

Palumbo Angela

September 10, 2026

Product Pages Beat Reddit Almost Six To One In B2B AI Citations, But I Made The Data Prove It First

AI models favor brand pages over community content in buyer research

New research by Ten Speed reveals AI models cite product pages 24% of the time, while Reddit and YouTube get only 4% dur...

Palumbo Angela

September 3, 2026

Google integrates advanced AI video analysis into Ask YouTube

Google is rolling out ‘agentic video understanding’ to Ask YouTube, enabling Gemini to analyze specific video segments f...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

September 3, 2026

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YouTube Redesign Boosts Long-Form Video Engagement

YouTube’s desktop homepage redesign with larger thumbnails increased long-form video engagement, proving ‘less is more’...

Palumbo Angela

September 3, 2026

YouTube to Count Views From First Second Across All Formats

YouTube to Count Views From First Second Across All Formats

YouTube is changing its view counting method to register a view from the first second for all video formats starting Aug...

Palumbo Angela

August 21, 2026

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YouTube Alters View Count Method for Long-Form, Live Videos

YouTube is updating its view count metric for long-form videos and live streams, counting a view from the start. Learn h...

Joyce de Castro

August 17, 2026