The same day that Facebook announced they were serving 3 billion video views daily, YouTube has made a change that will significantly increase the video views on their own platform. Starting Wednesday, YouTube has turned autoplay on to begin streaming a new video seconds after the previous one finishes. Until now, subsequent videos would only […]
Over 3 Billion Videos Viewed on Facebook Daily
Facebook reported on their Q4 earnings on Wednesday and they revealed that there are over 3 billion Facebook videos viewed by users every day. Of course not all of those 3 billion videos are actually watched. Because Facebook auto plays their videos for most users, many videos can start playing even if a user is […]
Google Displaying Knowledge Graphs for Highly Competitive – and Spammed – Search Queries
Google has begun showing knowledge graphs for some highly competitive – and highly spammed – search queries, and queries that probably will get the competition quite upset with its new appearance. And the owner of the site in the search query gets a nice box around their listing with a stand out link with their […]
First Look at How Google Chrome Plans to Alert Users to Non-HTTPS Websites
After much speculation that Google Chrome would be alerting users to any website that doesn’t employ HTTPS, we finally know how Google plans to flag unsecured websites in Google Chrome, the different settings it uses and best of all, anyone can test it out. Ilya Grigorik posted what he calls his “New favorite Chrome Canary […]
Pinterest Adds Promoted Pins to User’s Home Feed
Pinterest has updated their promoted pins program and are bringing promoted pins directly to users newsfeeds, which is set to increase exposure for advertisers and increase their pins being displayed. Previously promoted pins are only appearing in search results and in category fields. But now Pinterest is set to ramp up pins views by making […]
Google Adds Book Carousel & Makes Changes to Book Related Knowledge Graphs
Earlier this month Bing added a new book carousel feature to their search results and Google has now done the same by adding a new book carousel that displays at the top of the search results when users click on a carousel link from a book related knowledge graph. They have also redesigned and added […]
Twitter Launches Video Uploading & Editing Features
As expected, Twitter has launched their own video service that allows users to upload and edit video directly on Twitter. Rumors about the video feature started circling earlier this month and many saw that as something necessary for Twitter to begin doing, since they were losing out on potential ad revenue with users hosting their […]
Test the New Google Webmaster Tools Search Query Feature
Google Webmaster Tools is working on a brand-new search query feature and that they are looking for webmasters to try it out. They are specifically looking for people who are a regular user of the search query information that is currently in Google Webmaster Tools. They are also wanting to know how you are using […]
Matt Cutts Talks About His Early Spam Fighting Days at Google
If you haven’t been in the industry long enough to remember when Matt Cutts could attend a conference and NOT be surrounded by dozens of “Cuttlets”, you will enjoy this video of a recent talk Matt did talking about his early days at Google. He spoke at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]
Vimeo Launching On Demand Publisher Network Allowing Video Revenue Share
Vimeo is getting in the publisher program game by offering a publishing program for websites that want to earn money from their video-on-demand service. With 16,000 titles available, for websites can add some or all those titles and earn revenue every time someone either purchases or rents one of the VODs. It is officially called […]