Adsense and ValueClickMedia

Anything I have to worry about?

[fischermx]

I'm about to add banner ads from ValueClickMedia to my site currently using Adsense.
I already emailed Google and they told me it were fine to use ValueClick ads in the same page as adsense ads runs (they say no to "Industry Brains", btw)

But, I remember I've heard something about google adsense appearing through ValueClick/TribalFusion ads, don't remember well.
I'm on ValueClicks control panel now, but I can't find a mention about how to turn off such adsense ads.

BTW, what are Interstitial and InVue ads?

Any advise is welcome.

[celgins]

Well from what I've seen, "interstitial" ads are the types that prevent you from going to the page you intended to get to. It actually looks like a giant ad on its own webpage. Most will redirect you to your desired page after about 15-30 seconds, but some won't move unless you click to, "Continue On To Your Page"

"Invue" ads appear on top of any other content. They block the web content behind them, but can't really be moved like a pop-up browser window. I guess the best way to describe invue ads is those collapsable menus you see - where you roll over it and it expands. Roll out and it disappears.

Not sure if Google Adsense ads appear through ValueclickMedia. The only Google stipulation (according to their TOS) is that other ads on the page can't mimic Adsense ads.

[OptiRex]

but some won't move unless you click to, "Continue On To Your Page"

I haven't see one however can't you Ctrl F4 them?

[celgins]

I've never tried CTRL-F4, but I see those types of ads more often these days.

Especially when you go to entertainment-based or sports-based sites. When you click on an article to read, they'll send you to an "advertisement page" and the words, "Click Here To Continue To The Article" will appear in a corner...(in a small font, of course!)

[Rodney]

I haven't see one however can't you Ctrl F4 them?

If you ctrl f4 them then you would be closing the webpage you're trying to get to.

For example, an intersitial is like if you clicked on the "recent posts" link here at WW and instead of taking you to active.htm, it would take you to a page with a full page ad (same browser window). The top of the page would say "click here to go to Recent Posts active.htm" and the bottom of the page would have a big sponsor banner (possibly flash).

You can immediately click to get to your desired page, but it basically just inserts an ad page in between you and your destination page.

You see them alot on big gaming/console websites.

Regarding adsense and valueclick on the same page (especially with valueclick/fastclick sometimes running adsense ads), check out this recent post:
[webmasterworld.com...]

I don't think it's much of an issue anymore since adsense now allows mutiple ad units. When it first happened, there was a minor uproar because adsense didn't allow mutiple adsense blocks on the same page if they showed the same ad and the fastclick/valueclick blocks would sometimes show similar ads.