If you follow the link now you'll see they pinned a response about 30 minutes ago that links to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/hy0cC...
It basically says WAI :S
Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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Appnexus is a RTB platform and a DSP (and a whole lot of other things they do). OpenX is/was an exchange and is generally the #1 place for buying/selling dodgy af traffic. Neither does what Adsense does per se. What Adsense does is it reads the content of the page, and loads relevant ads from from its database of ads (things people put in adwords) and from GDN (also things people put in AdWords, and DBM, only they're…
Since you seem to know the industry well, what are the top resources (of any kind) to study the current state of online advertising for an advanced audience? Both from the technical side, and from the advertiser's business side. At a level that you would ideally know and learn if you were working as an executive in the industry.
I actually wrote a 10 page article on this for an internal audience. If people are interested I could clean it up and post it somewhere. Otherwise, the knowledge is scattered over blogs, ad exchanger, etc.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appnexus is a RTB platform and a DSP (and a whole lot of other things they do). OpenX is/was an exchange and is generally the #1 place for buying/selling dodgy af traffic. Neither does what Adsense does per se. What Adsense does is it reads the content of the page, and loads relevant ads from from its database of ads (things people put in adwords) and from GDN (also things people put in AdWords, and DBM, only they're…
I refuse to believe that NO ONE ELSE out there does the "read page in order to target ad" thing.
Because a lot of the value is not just from the page (and note that taking a page plus pictures plus site, NLP on that, etc is not an easy thing to do) but also from your navigation around the internet and previous google searches. Putting that all together is hard and requires approaching Google scale.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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Easy: All of the Google for Work products, namely Google Maps, Cloud Platform, Search, Android or Chrome. https://www.google.com/work/ Yes, they're all paid services and some require you to explicitly purchase support on top, but in exchange, you get access to engineers who can go down to the source code and actually fix issues. (Disclaimer: I'm one of these engineers.)
Have you ever used the customer support?
Google has excellent support for adsense if you're a large account. At least in my experience at a former employer.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
#145Seems to me like some smart person/persons would be able to build a cryptocurrency-based competitor to AdSense.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
#146OFFICIAL UPDATE from Google : https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/hy0cC...
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever used the customer support?
Google has excellent support for adsense if you're a large account. At least in my experience at a former employer.
That sounds right. The principal business model for AdSense is that it is cheap and profitable because it is self-serve and automated. That's why there is no in-person support.
I think things changed about five or so years ago when they began offering support for their largest accounts.
Maybe there is a business model in this mess. Set up an ads business that feeds traffic to AdSense, but with a markup. Use that markup to provide actual support. The support would be mostly from internal staff, but the hardest questions would go to Google. And they'd be willing to do this, because of the collective size of the aggregated deal-flow.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…
>First of all, adblock has destroyed a significant number of small bloggers, content-writers, and other publishers, as especially those were struggling to stay above water. People used to do that for free because they cared about the content they were writing, rather than because it was making their daily bread. I distinctly remember the quality of writing during this time being much higher than it is today.
>People used to do that for free because they cared about the content they were writing, rather than because it was making their daily bread.
Those two points are not necessarily connected. People can and do, do a good job at things even if they're just doing it for the money.
>I distinctly remember the quality of writing during this time being much higher than it is today.
What writing are you thinking about? Personally, I can't think of anything that was better.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
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Although just try and use your Google Apps account with: * Google Fi * Google Family Library Sharing * Android Apps Family Sharing * Google Play Music Family Sharing * YouTube Red * Google Spaces Apps accounts, the only thing that has a decent support option, are purposefully limited in functionality and cannot do a lot of things. The whole "One account. All of Google." is a lie, and attempting to ask Apps support ab…
you realized the reason for these things not supported in Google for Work is due to them being new or not work focused Google for Work has to be stable over features all the items you have listed are pretty new all the family stuff is extremely new and still isn't complete it started with hack into google Music but we are now finally seeing it move into google main accounts as of today you can see it here https://mya…
You read the linked discussion in my post and realized that what is now called "Google for Work" had different names and at one point was also called "Google Apps for Family" and a lot of families purchased the service to give their family a custom domain.
It turns out that even before these recent family plans, Google had a used and loved family product.
The paying users for that product, now cannot use any of the family offerings.
And all of this still stems from Google's arguing that a Google account has access to everything Google provides: "One account. All of Google.". It says that now, today... even though it's clear this isn't true.
Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…
>First of all, adblock has destroyed a significant number of small bloggers, content-writers, and other publishers, as especially those were struggling to stay above water. People used to do that for free because they cared about the content they were writing, rather than because it was making their daily bread. I distinctly remember the quality of writing during this time being much higher than it is today.
Furthermore, it used to be much more expensive to host content "back in the day", while today you can do it everywhere for almost or actually free.
With revenue being far less required today to keep a blog up than it used to be, denigrating the effects of ad blocking on the "little guy" makes even less sense.