David Black
davidblack.bsky.social
David Black
@davidblack.bsky.social
Managing Director at Google UK. Advisory Board at The King’s Trust. Board and Trustee of Media Trust. Technology, media, digital, skills and social mobility.
Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉

To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀

We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register
May 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube!

📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.

1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.

🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.

What are you watching on YouTube?
April 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️

Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨

Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
December 1, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
November 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Bluesky now the number one free app on the Google Play store chart:
November 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Significant growth in Google searches for Bluesky in recent days, according to Google Trends:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
November 15, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Significant growth in searches for Bluesky in the UK in recent days, according to Google Trends:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
November 14, 2024 at 12:37 AM