Does AdSense really promote these ads?

This doesn't seem like such a fair ad. It basically tricks people into believing it's a YouTube video for a click. AdSense does this?

 

It is fair

 

It's a video ad, and listed on their ad formats page.https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/AdFormats.html

Google isn't the one dropping money for the ad, so they don't care. It's wrong when publishers are the ones doing the trickery.

 

video ads are all over the place, on this one at least it says " Ads by Google"

 

I actually think that for the publisher to earn something from these types of ads, the user will need to click the ad twice - once to start the video playing, and then again to actually visit the website site of the advertiser. ( I am not sure though how the advertiser pays for such ads - whethers its for the inital click or only the one where the user is taken to their site. )

Alex

 

It's not actually a video, it's an image that looks like a video.

 

Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm not sure though, I won't click my own ads (ever) with how strict AdSense is on that, so to me it just looks like an animated banner designed to look like a video. I could easily be wrong, I don't have any experience with these.

 

I thought it's video add, real one

 

Well I actually thought it was a video ad as well - it sure as hell looks like one. However, if someone is running an ad campaign with an image such as the one above then I don't think Google will let the ad campaign run for long.

Alex

 

There's no problem as long as the advertiser pays...