#44 Growth Weekly News

Alexandra Poulopoulou
Nov 7 · 3 min read

Learn the latest news in Digital Analytics world and join us on this week’s stories in the comments.

This week’s blog post found us not-knowing which update to put first in the list. This means, we have great news… 🤗 So, don’t waste your time, grab your coffee and follow us for this week’s stories…

Last week in summary: New Google Ads’ Merchant Center upgrade, new extensions for video campaigns released, Data Studio dimension and metric improvements and Python 3 is now available in Google Cloud.


1 min | Merchant Center upgrades to get your products in front of more holiday shoppers

The new Merchant Center has been redesigned with clearer workflows, simpler navigation, and more program insights. You can use the updated interface to easily manage your products, like enabling automatic image improvements to remove promotional overlays on your product images to comply with Merchant Center policies.

1 min | Elevate your video campaigns with new extensions for YouTube ads

To help you hit your business goals, Google Ads is improving interactivity on YouTube with new extensions that make it easy for your customers to take action. Building off of popular extensions on Search, extensions on YouTube give viewers useful and actionable information like store location, interest forms and additional calls-to-action.

1 min | Dimension and metric improvements

Data Studio improved the way fields in your data sources are defined and aggregated by default. These changes make it easier to model your data, and make calculated fields more robust.

3 min | Introducing Python 3, Python streaming support from Cloud Dataflow

Streaming analytics is becoming an essential part of data platforms, helping businesses collect and analyze data in real time. Python is emerging as one of the most popular choices for data analysts, and a growing number of apps are powered by streaming analytics. With these trends in mind, Google Cloud announces the general availability of Python 3 and streaming support for the Python SDK.


10 min | Troubleshooting Data Blending in Google Data Studio

As a Google Data Studio user, you’ve most likely already delved into the data blending feature. In this blog post, you will be introduced into how data blending works in Google Data Studio, note the considerations that limit your blending abilities, and share some tactics that have been successfully implemented to resolve data blending issues.


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Growth Analytics

Google Analytics 360 Sales and Services partner specializing in online business optimization.

Alexandra Poulopoulou

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Growth Analytics

Google Analytics 360 Sales and Services partner specializing in online business optimization.

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