# Simplifying video presentation on Google Search Results

Thursday, April 13, 2023


Today, we're making a change so that video thumbnails only appear next to Google search results when the video is the main content of a page.
This will make it easier for users to understand what to expect when they visit a page.


Previously, we showed video thumbnails in two different ways.
For pages where the video was the main content of the page, it appeared at the beginning of a listing:

![A video result in Google Search](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/video-result.png)


This remains unchanged. The other format was for when a video was present on a page but not the main element of a page.
In that case, the thumbnail appeared after a listing:

![A video thumbnail on a text result](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/video-thumbnail-on-text-result.png)


This second format is going away. In experiments, this change has had minimal impact on overall engagement for publishers.


![The video thumbnail on text results will no longer appear for pages where the video is not the prominent element on a page.](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/simplifying-video-search-results.png)


This change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the [performance report](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553) in Search Console.
There will be annotations in the [video indexing report](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9495631) and the [video enhancements report](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7552505).


To learn more about video indexing best practices, check out the [video best practices guide](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/video).
For questions, feel free to post in our [Search Central help community](https://goo.gle/sc-forum), where you can join a discussion with like-minded experts.

Posted by [Cory Benavente](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/authors/cory-benavente), Product Manager, Google Search