Lego blocks in Adsense?

Small images appearing in left of my full width ads

[pldaniels]

Just noticed it today when I was doing the usual MFA stalk and hunt - a small square on the left of the advert block with blue / green lego blocks (2x2 configuration).

What is this?

[WolfLover]

Do Lego blocks have anything to do with your niche or mentioned in any way on your site?

I've had pictures come up a couple of times at the top of the wide skyscraper I had up previously and the picture I had was not of lego blocks, but was a picture of something exactly related to my niche and my site. Very well targeted actually.

I am assuming that is what you are seeing.

[mzanzig]

Recently, I have seen a small image (75 x 62 pixels) at the left side of a leaderboard containing three text ads. The picture was so-so on target for the page, but I think it definitely drew attention to the ads (and I always thought this was not allowed).

I like it.

[Gian04]

Its the new Adsense feature called Vertical Images where an image takes the place of an ad within the ad unit

[pldaniels]

Lego blocks aren't -really- focused to my site, other than that my site is all about modelling/building.

Fortunately the adverts that showed up were highly focused, bang on perfect for the pages.

I agree, they are great adverts, definately draws a lot of attention to them.

[gamiziuk]

Sounds like someone at the Adsense team is going to save me the trouble of hunting for my own targeted images.
;-)