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Google product ratings now appearing on YouTube Shorts
Arpan Banerjee has spotted Google product rating annotations surfacing directly on YouTube Shorts placements. The star rating overlay brings Shopping-style social proof to the Shorts format, providing products with an additional trust signal when a viewer engages with a short-form video ad.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means ensuring your product review data in Merchant Centre is accurate and up to date: ratings will now be visible on Shorts placements, making low or missing ratings a conversion risk on a high-reach surface.
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Google product ratings now appearing on YouTube Shorts
Arpan Banerjee has spotted Google product rating annotations surfacing directly on YouTube Shorts placements. The star rating overlay brings Shopping-style social proof to the Shorts format, providing products with an additional trust signal when a viewer engages with a short-form video ad.
For you, this means ensuring your product review data in Merchant Centre is accurate and up to date: ratings will now be visible on Shorts placements, making low or missing ratings a conversion risk on a high-reach surface.
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