- A new report suggests that a YouTube shopping feature is on the way.
- Google admitted that it is testing a form of tagging products at the moment, but wouldn’t say more.
- Allegedly, Google might be moving to make YouTube a one-stop-destination for all your shopping needs.
If you watch enough YouTube videos, you’ll eventually hear a creator say something like, “I’ll put a link to this product I’m using in the description.” Wouldn’t it be way easier if the link appeared right on the screen?
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Apparently, that might be in the works. According to a report from Bloomberg, Google is working on developing a YouTube shopping tool. Theoretically, it would make it easy for creators to link to products directly in videos. They (and Google, naturally) would then earn a commission from those purchases.
Google admitted