Content Marketing Weekly: The podcasts are here
Summary
This year, the world’s largest search engine held its annual developer conference May 7–9 in the usual Mountain View spot. Some of the biggest talkings points included new and more affordable Google hardware, privacy (no big surprise there), Android Q (which has Dark Mode), and voice-assistant advances. And that’s where we’ll kick off this edition of the Content Marketer Weekly: It’s exactly what it sounds like: Playable podcast episodes now load in Google search results. Here’s what that looks like on desktop: Google representative Zack Reneau-Wedeen calls this “a step toward making audio a first-class citizen across Google.” In a way, it’s good news for podcast producers. Speaking of being evil, Facebook was in the news again, but this time for launching three new features to help make more capabilities available to small businesses.