Merchant Center 'Video assets' section began auto-populating with videos pulled from YouTube and other sources

Date

Feb 24, 2026 (first reported)

Primary source

Search Engine Land

Sources

• open_in_new
  Merchant Center becomes a central video hub as Google auto-imports contentSearch Engine Land · Feb 24, 2026
• open_in_new
  Video Assets in GMC Now Populated With VideosPPC News Feed · Feb 24, 2026

Related changes

• Jun 4, 2026Merchant Center issued mass 'Product page unavailable' disapprovals for live product pages
• May 31, 2026Attribute rules extended to automatically found (crawled) products in Merchant Center
• May 21, 2026Six optional conversational attributes added to help AI Mode and Gemini understand products
• May 4, 2026'Use AI to add products - beta' appeared as a product source option in Merchant Center
• May 1, 2026Merchant API MCP Access Service (alpha) launched with conversational product attributes
• Apr 28, 2026pickup_cost and minimum_order_value made mandatory for in-store pickup products in the UK, Switzerland and EEA

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