A video carousel is a Google SERP feature that displays a horizontal scrollable row of video thumbnails for queries where video content is particularly relevant — typically how-to, tutorial, review, or entertainment queries. Each card shows a thumbnail, title, duration, source platform, and publication date. Videos appearing in carousels are most commonly sourced from YouTube, but other platforms including Vimeo and publisher-hosted videos can appear. Optimising for the video carousel involves publishing video content with descriptive titles and descriptions rich in target keywords, adding VideoObject structured data to embedded video pages, and ensuring the video addresses the specific query intent clearly within the first few seconds. As Google continues to invest in video as a content format, video carousels appear for an increasing range of query types.