Publishers' Top Requests to Google AdSense Are... (Search Engine Roundtable)
A WebmasterWorld thread is gathering the top 5 publisher requests to be shared with Google's AdSenseAdvisor. Forum member participation is building up, with the following requests being made thus far: Ability to block more than 200 sites in the Competitive Ad Filter Ability to block by keyword in domain name. The example used is that a publisher wants to block spammydomain.com and ...
Google AdSense's Two Hour Reporting Outage (Search Engine Roundtable)
Google AdSense had a two hour outage yesterday morning causing lots of concern amongst the publisher groups. There are two long threads, one at Google Groups and another ad WebmasterWorld discussing the outage. The first report came in at 4:09am (EST) Thursday morning and at about 6:44am, first reports came in that the statistics started to populate in the AdSense reports. At 1:05pm ...
Ooyala Launches Innovative Video Advertising Feature Set (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Ooyala, Inc, a leading global online video platform provider, is announcing the launch of Ooyala Backlot™ Ads. This feature simplifies the process of monetizing online video content by enabling easy ad integration with major ad servers and ad networks such as YuMe, Tremor, Doubleclick, Lightningcast, and Google AdSense for Video.
Extreme Makeover: Photos Realistically Embedded Within Videos (Science Daily)
Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It works for videos as well; you can play a video on a wall inside your video.
YieldBuild Launches Self-Serve Ad Optimization In Public Beta (TechCrunch)
YieldBuild , an ad optimization platform that helps users manage multiple ad networks and position advertisements on their webpages, has launched its self-service program to the public. When we last covered the company, YieldBuild was still in private beta and only sites with more than 500,000 monthly visitors were eligible to participate. Now, web publishers of any size are welcome to ...
New Paid Links Service Sparks More Debate (WebProNews)
Quite a storm of debate has erupted over a new service called InLinks - essentially a paid text link service that allegedly makes it hard for Google (and other search engines) to detect them. And mouths of Internet marketers begin to salivate. read more
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2008 (Search Engine Roundtable)
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Why Chrome doesn't dazzle Mozilla's chairman (ZDNet UK)
Google made Mitchell Baker's Mozilla Foundation $75m through a Firefox search deal, but she doesn't see Chrome as a threat to that revenue
Google AdSense Filter To Take Less Than An Hour (Search Engine Roundtable)
The other day, we reported about the concern over Google AdSense displaying political ads throughout various sites, even though the publisher did not want to push for political agendas. Google listened and they blogged that they will be speeding up the AdSense ad filter and increasing the ability to block categories. The blog post said: We plan to improve the speed of your filters, ...
Why Firefox Won't Survive Chrome (Microsoft Watch)
News Commentary. It's not a question of if but when Google will cut off Mozilla's oxygen supply.
