Embedded short-form video (Reels/Shorts/TikTok) without VideoObject JSON-LD

VideoObject is a structured data type that describes a video's details, such as thumbnail, upload date, duration and creator, to search engines. Short-form platforms like Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok don't provide this data themselves when embedded, so the page embedding them has to add it manually. This site was found to have an embedded short-form video without that VideoObject markup. Without VideoObject markup, an embedded Reel, Short or TikTok clip is effectively invisible to Google Video Search and to AI systems that summarise search results, because there's no structured data telling them the video exists or what it's about. Any creator credit, engagement, or discovery value the clip could bring through search is lost, even though the video itself is visible to a human visitor. Your developer should add a VideoObject JSON-LD block for each embed, including name, description, thumbnailUrl, uploadDate and embedUrl, plus duration in the PT30S-style format this schema uses. This takes roughly 30 minutes to two hours per page depending on how many embeds are on it, and it makes each clip citable by Google Video Search and AI summarisers.