adsense serving doubleclick ads ?

Adsense now serving doubeclick ads!

[swa66]

I'm actually very pleased to see a graphical banner (with scripts from doubleclick blocked [how I normally surf]) or a flash moving thingie [with javascript on for all]) on my site for a major brand (and not too far off topic).

I've been seeing it for a few days and today it seems to want a lot of the hits.

The funny part is that it's not code from the usual Google branded servers, but instead the iframe is from doubleclick.

The source of the iframe starts with:

"<!-- Copyright 2002 DoubleClick Inc., [...]"

and is served from http://ad.doubleclick.net/...

It's making little to no noticeable change in the stats, but at least I'd rather be associated with a major brand than the average scammer on adwords.

Anyway, happy to see Google integrating doubleclick onto the content network.

[celgins]

Yep. Got the email this morning about the DoubleClick Affiliate network becoming the Google Affiliate Network on June 30.

[benevolent001]

There have been considerable privacy concerns of Double click ad network in the past , how you are taking this up in terms of privacy of your users?

[celgins]

There have been considerable privacy concerns of Double click ad network in the past , how you are taking this up in terms of privacy of your users?

All privacy issues formerly held by DoubleClick will be inherited by the Google Affiliate Network, no?

[swa66]

Agreed: I didn't like doubleclick's tracking all too much, but then again one more or less site showing their ads won;t make the big difference.

OTOH: the user can block stuff if they care (I don't allow in my browser doubleclick cookies, nor scripts, nor rich media)

I guess the reason why we needed to add web beacons in our privacy announcements is clear as well.

OTOH, I'm a bit more inclined to have some faith about cookies and trackign since Google runs the show. Somehow they know so much already that it makes little added difference I guess. In the end if they wanted to know they already would know.

[swa66]

Just an update to this: at the end of last month that campaign seems to have stopped and left me with what looks like a 50% penalty in the form of smartpricing.
Often I get a dip around the change of the month, nothing I worry too much about, but it's still ongoing, wondering when it'll recover.

Gee they run a "branding" ad all over the site and then wonder why it doesn't convert ?

Anyway, I hope it doesn;t take too much longer, or I'm out of adsense completely: bad advertisers, low earnings, no control for publishers, and when there seems to be finally a light at the end of the tunnel, well then you get hit by even lower earnings as a result.

[netmeg]

I had a very similar experience to yours. The problem I have with these Doubleclick ads is that there is apparently no way to block *one* ad without blocking all image ads, or everything from Doubleclick. I don't necessarily want to do either of those things.

[swa66]

netmeg, how long did it take to recover from the smartpricing ?

Cause I'm still hurting.
Seriously considering now to
- block all image ads
- reduce dramatically the amount of traffic I send to adsense (affiliate links bring in more than adsense now)

[netmeg]

I dunno, I don't think you ever "recover" from smartpricing - smartpricing is one of those that goes on all the time for everyone. Some clicks are worth more than others. That particular Doubleclick campaign seems to have ended; at least I don't see the ads anymore.