It has been brought to my attention that some of my readers have been seeing this instead of ads: A new type of PSA? What the hell is Google doing?
PSA I think if that's a PSA it's toital BS! I hope you get paid if someone clicks...but you should be paid like an affiliate!
I have a weblog with a comment system, and most of them also have blogs with adsense on them, so they know PSAs don't pay and I guess felt the need to inform me of that. Common cortesy, I guess I myself haven't seen this new PSA, i always see either normal PSAs or ads.
I have seen that ad many times, sometimes even here on DP. I think you actually do get paid for the clicks, but probably not very much.
I doubt it's a PSA. I think that this is just Google using their own ad network, bidding like everyone else. These ads are targeted at the webmaster community, I doubt they would blatantly use this ad space to promote adsense without paying you. Unless it's in the TOS somewhere, but I don't remember seeing it.
I've always looked at adsense with a sense of wonder at how they could do a win-win situation so nicely
You've got to admire google- they must make tons out of the adwords/sense setup. I reckon about half of all the sites I visit use adsense- they have so much influence!