Hey guys, I think I'm not the only one in this boat, so maybe we can find a solution together: Starting sporadically yesterday and absolutely on 100% of pages today AdSense shows NBC "Community" show's video ad (see attachment) on the 1st place across all my sites. I don't believe it's the interest-based advertising: I've never been to any TV show sites and I have also logged out of my Google account just to be sure. So, it's definitely a CPM campaign NBC must have paid Google loads of money for. As the title of this message implies, the show has no relation to my sites whatsoever and people just ignore it, the CTR is down by a full percent (or more on some sites) and I'm really taking some painful losses because of that. So, where the heck is the oh-so-smart Google's ad positioning algo when you need it? I definitely don't generate more revenue from CPM ads and they should have already recognized it yesterday on their test runs and should have at lease pushed the ads to 2nd or 3rd place or eliminated them altogether. OK, enough with the rant. Now I'm looking for ideas on how to deal with it. I could have used a competitive filter setting and filter them out but I am no sure what to use for the target URL: the video plays right inside my page, so I don't see any URL that would make sense to me to use in the competitive filter. Any idea will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
if ONE or few advertisers only offer video ads then add these advertisers to your filter list in your adsense account that blocks ANY ad from those advertisers I filtered as the ONLY one on my list a few days ago an advertiser who was all over my site even multiple unites full unit and the CTR went immediately UP as well as the eCPM that was a HUGE mega company that might have got a special deal from G for such masses of ads while it always is against my own policy to reduce competition in bets - in this case the world clearly DISLIKED that church to be on my site
Well, that's the whole point of the Google's much-celebrated "smart" ad algorithm - it's supposed to know (calculate) which ads work best and remove the bad ones without you even noticing. I think it does work in most cases but sometimes something (big advertising money?) throws a wrench into the well-oiled machine. Anyways, how did you technically identify the URL to block? I mean, this being a video, it just keep playing in the same window in which a page of my site is displayed. Should I just try to click on any arbitrary part of the frame and see if it goes anywhere? Call me paranoid but I really hate clicking my own ads for no good reason Thanks!
I noticed the same ads on my site and was trying to figure out where they were coming from and what they are paying. My problem is I don't think they are even reporting in Google Adsense for me so I have no idea what they are bringing in. Adsense isn't my first ad network. (I use Ad manager to put in a CPM floor that adsense can try and beat). So I checked my stats to seeing what they are paying and I don't see anything from them. Very strange. Anyone else not have stats for them?
10 days ago at adtech show in NYC I heard AdManager is not able to manage ( meaning make eCPM calculations for ) CPM ads yet. Is this not true? Mind, you, this coming from a guy that has yet to play with Ad Manager, so I may be mixing stuff up in my mind... How do you like Ad Manager, BTW? I've been blown away by the presentation but the problem is: most networks I use have performance lower than AdSense and so it kinda makes no sense to manage anything: just show AdSense first. And then comes a day like this ... Getting back to your reporting: I think it was a special deal of sorts, I would not even be surprised that it was just a freebie for NBC to appease a good client. We just paid for it. By the way, the ads are gone now.
there is no need to click an add to know the advertiser but I never did that procedure with videos multiple ways right-click then select "copy link location" or sage page as - on your local PC then look into video ( i guess its flash file ) to find link URL using Adobe flash tools or if none of above work send ( attach ) downloaded ( saved ) flash ad to Google adsense support and request G to reveal URL / advertiser for later blocking see NONE of these videos on any of the URLs you have in your signatures - hence no way to test myself