AdSense on Smart Phones etc

I have no idea about this!

[OptiRex]

Does AdSense work on any/some of these new products?

What does it look like?

Is AdLinks the best format?

Will AdSense have to change its formats?

Are people already using it?

Shall we all need .mobi addresses owing to the stated minimum standards?

What do we all NEED to know?

[humblebeginnings]

Perhaps some young newbies know more about this subject. Us old senior members don't have a clue.
Anyone?

[mzanzig]

I could imagine that Adsense could work on Windows mobile based devices. But I know that it does not work on typical mobile phones - main reason being the lack of JavaScript support by the phone browsers.

[21_blue]

I could imagine that Adsense could work on Windows mobile based devices.

It can, but by default it doesn't. At least, not with the standard browser and settings included with the current version of Windows mobile. You have to install a java-enabled browser.

Things might be different in future, though.

[jason207]

on my palm tx and motorola 557, adsense only shows up on bigger name sites, i assume premium publishers must get this option. my sites' Ypn doesnt show as well, haven't seen ypn on any other site either. Adbrite however works perfectly on both. i dont do a whole lot of general browsing with the phone and pda so its just a small group of sites i've seen.

[mzanzig]

Besides the question whether it's technically feasible, I guess there still is the problem of market: Are there enough market participants to actually make a mobile Adwords/Adsense fly? It certainly would make sense for some niches, but I think a wide success as Adsense (on the Web) is currently unrealistic. Remember, a mobile Adwords campaign would only make sense for a mobile landing page (and there are just very few of them today).

So I guess we'll have to wait another year or two before this lifts off.

[OptiRex]

I guess there still is the problem of market

Undoubtedly very small at the moment.

So I guess we'll have to wait another year or two before this lifts off.

Most probably so however many companies are pushing their staff down this route, techies love 'em and it will happen therefore we need to know now what is expected of us.

Will the .mobi standard become a standard for us all?

Were Google, Yahoo! MSN et al in on the set-up of this?

Questions, questions, I have so many questions I need answering. This is the .mobi site:

[pc.mtld.mobi...]

Guidelines are here:

[pc.mtld.mobi...]

Help! I need an interpreter...

[mzanzig]

Opti,

thanks for the link. I had a look at the site, here's my view on this (probably a bit off-topic for this forum):

1) A number of big mobile players are puzzled that the mobile Internet as promised since 1999 has not received the attention as predicted.

2) These players have the "idea" to create a new TLD (.mobi), to run the TLD and thus to control access to this TLD.

3) Only if you are compliant with their specification (i.e. their idea of the mobile Internet), you may keep the domain registered under this TLD.

4) They try to sell this to publishers as something valuable. In other words: the domain and the rules attached to getting one shall increase the demand for the mobile Internet.

So far, so good.

But... this will only create a market, if the investors of the .mobi TLD are providing preferred access to domains hosted on this TLD, e.g. through an own search engine putting .mobi sites on top. But is this realistic? Why should they give you free customers from their search engine? And will they put you on top, even before the big brands that are not on .mobi?

Nope, at the end content will rule (as always).

If you are owner of (insert big magazine name here), would you feel inclined to register a new domain just to make the content accessible for mobiles? Your technical staff will tell you that they can host the wireless pages also under your existing domain. So why bother? And if the big names that run .mobi want your content, they'll accept it from whatever TLD you have it on.

I see also a problem that you are constantly chasing the specs, i.e. they might change the specs and you have to comply within 60 days. Great! We do not need another entity telling us what to do.

So, IMO, I would not lose any sleep over .mobi - they will have a very hard time to get the necessary attention.

[kaz]

I sum up my answers to your questions as follows

Does AdSense work on any/some of these new products?

Very few. not many have mobile windows and those that do would need to download/use a java enabled browser which is not a default. Thus the user base is a small percentage, and actual users who have compatible browsers only a tiny percentage of that. Most who do use windows mobile just see the page without adsense.

What does it look like?

It looks the same, if the above mentioned is in place

Is AdLinks the best format?

As with Adsense, each format may be different. I'm not sure there is an advantage w/ adlinks because of the multiple clicks. Mobile users tend to click less not more.

Will AdSense have to change its formats?

No. but maybe they could in the future have a 'mobile' format/option

Are people already using it?

Not many. Surely not enough to consider relevant.

Shall we all need .mobi addresses owing to the stated minimum standards?

See above, not likely

What do we all NEED to know?

Because of the very small user base, perhaps not much more than what has been reviewed here