“With an in-stream ad, we are disrupting a user’s experience. They were not on YouTube to watch your ad. They were there to watch a music video, a cat video, a TED talk, etc., so our in-stream ads have to be more like TV commercials,” explains Joe Martinez of Clix Marketing. “If you are using the skippable ads, you need to make sure you are capturing the user’s attention within the first five seconds otherwise they will skip your ad. With TrueView video discovery ads, the user chooses to watch your video. If they have already shown an interest in your content, you can elect to try and keep that user engaged as long as possible with longer video content.”

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Google Analytics bug. Yesterday morning there was a lot of concern from the industry because Google Analytics seemed to have a bug with reporting. Just know, you are not alone.

Google News site command. If you go to news.google.com and try a site command, it won’t work.  You need to go to Google, do a site command there, and then click on the news tab.  Google said they hope to bring it back in 2020.

Python. John Mueller from Google jokes that python is not a ranking factor, it is an inside SEO joke.

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