Adsense: 5 clicks = $0. Explanations?

One of my channels is reporting 5 clicks today but zero dollars earned. Does anyone have an idea of what might cause this? Could they be clicks on one of those non profits ads? Although i've never seen one of those ads served on this particular page..

Clicks are 3x the normal rate to begin with overall on this site today, so that concerned me initially.. then upon further review i see i'm not getting paid for all of the clicks from a certain channel, so that heightened the concern.. any input is appreciated..

 

Could be that stats are slow at updating, it happens.

 

yea, they are slow every now and then. but in my experience (which is not vast bay any means) when clicks update, so does the dollar amount. The usual delay i see is impressions rising with no clicks. then all of a sudden impressions are about the same and clicks/money show up

 

At the start of a day I have had $ but no impressions, chill, it will rectify itself.

 

Yeah they don't update at the same time.

Also if you click on your own ads they show as clicks with no revenue.

 

Yes, both clicks and impressions tend to update at different times...for whatever reason.

 

i experienced that too and emailed Google for some explaination. And Google told me that those clicks are classfied as invalid clicks.