I recently read somewhere and I cannot find it now, that adwords users now can see channel names and can selectively choose to advertise on these. So having "above_the_fold" or "keywords" in the channel name may attract specific adwords clients to drop a little more $$ for those channels. Is this true, and if so where can i read about it again, and if anyone has experinced positive things towards this, please share.
I sincerely doubt it ... I just have my channels named like "site1", "site 2" etc and I'm not going to change them just on the offchance there's actually something in this. I've never bothered breaking them down further, you're only allowed max 3 ads per page anyway. Its my ad blocks that have the location in them not the channels .... google gives you their size and date as the default name.
Maybe I didn;'t notice this before, but I think it's new. On the "Edit Channel" setting in Adsense, I have a checkbox on each channel that reads. "Show this channel to advertisers as an ad placement". I found this info at http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/03/attract-adsense-brand-advertisers/ when i was googling this and is a good read.
maybe you're talking about this thread. The op will be happy if you post a comment on it. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1957394