Limited Adsense Report Access

Can selected channel info be shared?

[PaulPA]

I'm considering developing a business relationship with a few authors who would contribute content to my site in exchange for a percentage of Adsense revenue generated from their contributions. Is there any way to allow these authors access to AdSense reports for the specfic content (e.g., channels) that they will contribute?

[PaulPA]

Anyone know if this is possible?

[Emilio]

Not possible.

[ArtistMike]

You could take a screen grab of your stats and then block out what you don't want them to see ... and then send the screen grab... the edited JPG file to your partners.

[marcel]

This could be risky though... they might ask friends/family etc to click on the links to help them out. And that would most likely get you banned from adsense.

It might be an idea to let them use their own AdSense code on these pages and rotate this with your own affiliate links.

[PaulPA]

Thanks but no, even though I'm trustworthy I would not suggest screenshots as evidence of revenue as a way of enticing my authors to write for my site. I would not even accept that if I was an author for another site.

Can you run two different AdSense accounts on the same site? That may be a way of handling it.

[jomaxx]

Some sites apparently work that way, although it seems needlessly risky and convoluted to me. Why not simply pay the authors a good rate for their articles, and take on the risk and the reward for yourself?

[PaulPA]

That is certainly one model for acquiring articles and is certainly an option in this case. But I wanted to also explore other payment models. Certainly payment based on percentage of ad revenue offers me certain advantages (no upfront cost) but also could potentially generate much more money for the author than a one-time payment (I would not allow the article to be published elsewhere).

However, I will not go down this road without a third-party verification system, which I believe access to Adsense reports would offer

[toomer]

I know I have a few reports automatically emailed to me from AdSense for various ways of looking at the data by channel, by ad type, weekly, daily, etc.

Maybe you could create a report for the data you want to show for one individual channel, and then have AdSense automatically send that report to them via email?

Can't remember if there's any overall account-wide totals in there or not, but if not it may solve your problem with sharing just one channel's worth of data.

[PaulPA]

toomer - thanks. I did not know about the "emailable" option. That could work. For those not familar here is what Google says about it:

Emailable reports are custom reports you can send to the recipient of your choice. You choose where and when you want to send your custom report, and we'll deliver it to the email address you specify as a Zip file. Just create and save a custom report with the date, channel, and impression settings you'd like, then visit the Report Manager page under your Reports tab to schedule that report to be sent to your inbox every day, every week, or every month.