I just saw this on one of my pages and didn't see any posts about it yet so I took a screenshot and thought I'd post it. Once I went to another page it went back to normal and I haven't seen it again yet. It's kind of like adlinks mixed with a regular block:
It has been posted about on a few occassions. It's been running for around a month and a half if I'm not mistaken.
I've seeen this new format a few days ago on one of my blogs. I wonder if it is only working with rectangular ads.
This new format crops up on my site every other day. Once I reload my page it disappears. I wish Google would be consistent with this. I think visitors would click the ads if the ads were more interactive.
I've seen it on all my ad formats, rectangular, square and banner. I have not seen it on the smaller rectangles (468x60 or smaller).