Ok, WTF is up with this?

It has been brought to my attention that some of my readers have been seeing this instead of ads:

A new type of PSA?

What the hell is Google doing?

 

PSA I think if that's a PSA it's toital BS! I hope you get paid if someone clicks...but you should be paid like an affiliate!

 

Your users contacted you about that? How nice!

 

I have a weblog with a comment system, and most of them also have blogs with adsense on them, so they know PSAs don't pay and I guess felt the need to inform me of that. Common cortesy, I guess

I myself haven't seen this new PSA, i always see either normal PSAs or ads.

 

I have seen that ad many times, sometimes even here on DP.
I think you actually do get paid for the clicks, but probably not very much.

 

I doubt it's a PSA. I think that this is just Google using their own ad network, bidding like everyone else.

These ads are targeted at the webmaster community, I doubt they would blatantly use this ad space to promote adsense without paying you. Unless it's in the TOS somewhere, but I don't remember seeing it.

 

You get paid for those. I used to get as high as $5 per click for those G sponsored ads.

AmCy

 

Someone emailed me they saw this same ad on my site too. Its weird but yup it does make money

 

Google get cheap advertising (on their network) and you get a higher revenue share!
Everyone wins!

 

I've always looked at adsense with a sense of wonder at how they could do a win-win situation so nicely

 

You've got to admire google- they must make tons out of the adwords/sense setup.
I reckon about half of all the sites I visit use adsense- they have so much influence!

 

Here we go, an example right from digitalpoint

 

m waiting for msn adcentre ... i hope its way way way better dan goog

 

cant you use a different ad instead of psa

 

like a different ad program, that shows thier ads when google is showing psa ads on your site

 

Sure he can. Alternate ads, and even collapsable ones.