Looker Studio's YouTube integration doesn't have a 'Date Published' field - but you can create one yourself. Here's how!
Looker Studio is Google's data visualisation and business intelligence tool, and forms part of the Google Marketing Platform. Originally called Google Data Studio, it was rebranded as Looker Studio in Q4 2022. Many of the posts on this site were written before the name change and so reference Google Data Studio.
The standard version of the tool is free to use but a paid enterprise version called Looker Studio Pro is also available. It competes with other business intelligence tools such as Power BI.
Looker Studio's YouTube integration doesn't have a 'Date Published' field - but you can create one yourself. Here's how!
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