Gizmodo: adsense

Earning $1.30 Per Day From Adsense Is Enough To Lose Unemployment Benefits

Rosa Golijan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:40:00 EDT

$1.30 barely gets vending machine soda, but it's enough to leave an NY lawyer without unemployment benefits. Her total Adsense earning of $238.75 was enough to trigger that response because there aren't proper guidelines in place for such residual earnings.

Karin (she asked Forbes to keep her last name private) was told everything from "you need to declare that you're working every time you update your blog" to something along the lines of "uhh...you shouldn't have lost your benefits over the Adsense income." In the end, none of the misinformation and hassle did much for her and she has taken Adsense off her blog as she struggles to regain her government check. [Forbes via Techdirt via Slashdot]

Photo by trekkyandy

Afternoon News: FBI Billboards, Radiohead Webcast, and Patents, Patents, Patents

Benny Goldman — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:00:00 EST

• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World]
• Oft-discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It's almost cool to stay home on New Year's Eve now. [Pitchfork]
• Google is stuck in patent troll hell with Hyperphase Technologies, LLC. The company claims it holds patents on certain parts of AdSense technology. [The Register]
• Yahoo filed a patent for "smart drag-and-drop" technology, which means "displaying drop targets in proximity to a drag-able selected object." Too bad everything from MS Excel to Apple Mail to Adobe Flash all use similar technology already. [Ars Technica]
• Vonage finalized their settlement with AT&T over the former infringing on the latter's VoIP patents. The settlement is believed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $39 million. [CRN]

Google Jumps Further Into Cellphone Ads With AdSense for Mobile

Matt Buchanan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:04:18 EDT

The impending onslaught of ads coming to everyone's cellphone just got a little bit more inevitable with Google announcing AdSense for Mobile. The new ad network brings Google contextual ads to the smallest screen for the first time—its current mobile ad service, AdWords, only does search result ads. Like regular AdSense, Google's paying per click—but we wonder how likely people are to click when it's on their phone? Perhaps Google's "two ads per page" advice will bolster clicks, but we're not holding our breath. Or clicking, rather. [NYT]

BBC Bringing Crumpets, Three New Channels With Ads to YouTube

Matt Buchanan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:00:15 EST

Apparently, YouTube's been quite busy behind the scenes, despite being shunned by Viacom. The NYT reports that they've managed to line up over 1,000 partnerships with content providers at a pace of 200 a quarter, most of them smaller, independent outlets.

The big fish in the growing pond though is the BBC, which YouTube has locked up for a multi-year deal to create two entertainment channels and a news channel. Interestingly, the news and one of the entertainment channels will have ads placed by AdSense. According to the BBC, there will "possibly pre-roll adverts (shown as part of the video clip) as well." On top of that, because of the ads, the news channel will be off-limits to UKers because it's ad-supported.

I'm suddenly not as psyched as I was when I first read the headline... – Matt Buchanan

Google Courts Small YouTube Deals, and Very Soon, a Larger One [NYT]
BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal [BBC]

Hope You've Got Broadband: Here Come Google Video Ads

Matt Buchanan — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:00:14 EST

Using its nearly ubiquitous AdSense network, Google is going to start delivering video ads from The Wall Street Journal, Life/Style Television and others to a small group of sites that choose to test the new program. Like their standard text ads, the video ones will be determined contextually. Of course, we can expect this relatively small-scale "experiment" to expand dramatically over the next year, so start girding your loins (or bandwidth) now. – Matt Buchanan

Google expands video ad test [CNET]
mockup via Center Networks