{"id":21332,"date":"2018-01-12T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2018-01-12T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:25:13","slug":"google-my-business-now-officially-supports-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/google-my-business-now-officially-supports-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Google My Business Now Officially Supports Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colan Nielson of Sterling Sky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingsky.ca\/videos-finally-come-google-business\/\">spotted<\/a> the video option in the Google My Business dashboard starting to appear last week. Google has now officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.advertisercommunity.com\/t5\/News-Updates\/Launch-Videos-in-the-Google-My-Business-Dashboard\/m-p\/1612720#M1225\">announced<\/a> that every dashboard now has the feature to see what videos consumers have uploaded and to upload your own. <\/p>\n<p><em>How it works:<\/p>\n<p>Videos will appear in the overview tab of the Google My Business Dashboard Customer uploaded videos can be found in the \u2018customer\u2019 tab Merchant uploaded videos can be found in the \u2018by owner\u2019 tab All videos can be viewed together in the \u2018videos\u2019 tab After upload it could take up to 24 hours for the videos to appear. Once live, they will display where local photos do.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition to uploading videos, merchants will have the ability to flag inappropriate videos through their dashboard. Native mobile support and notifications for new customer videos are coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The feature is available via the Photos tab:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11-1024x502.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"232\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11-1024x502.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11-520x255.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-2018-01-12-11.24.11.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Videos on Google Maps <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/26\/google-local-video-on-google-maps-listings\/\">first seen<\/a> on the consumer side of Maps in late August and added to the API at the time of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/google-releases-my-business-api-v-4-0\/\">last update<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colan Nielson of Sterling Sky spotted the video option in the Google My Business dashboard starting to appear last week. Google has now officially announced that every dashboard now has the feature to see what videos consumers have uploaded and to upload your own. How it works: Videos will appear in the overview tab of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21334,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions\/21334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}