Political Ads Blocked But Still Showing Up

[azlinda]

Has anyone else had this problem? I have the politics category blocked, but AdSense is serving a DoubleClick ad about auditing the Fed. Not that I'm against this, but this ad doesn't have a place on a culinary web site. Does anyone know how to block DoubleClick ads?

[tangor]

The block I'd like to see available is "social engineering", which would cover this one, but that's not on the options list. Sorry, I don't have a specific answer.

[netmeg]

That's probably not considered a political ad, unless it's mentioning a specific candidate or election.

[azlinda]

Yes, the ad mentions John McCain. In fact it has a large picture of him on the ad. I would certainly like to see political ads gone from my site.

[Lame_Wolf]

Yes, the ad mentions John McCain

The problem could be because it mentions "McCain" I don't know where you live, but there is a company that sells fries/chips etc called McCain. And as your site is culinary...

[azlinda]

No, the ad has a large picture of John McCain, and the ad is suggesting an audit of the Federal Reserve. It is definitely a political ad.

[arieng]

Based on the OP's handle, I'm guessing this is related to the contentious political party primary that is heating up in a particular southwestern state.

Definitely political. Definitely should be blocked.

[netmeg]

I wonder how they categorize the ads? As an advertiser, I'm not asked to provide a category, but supposedly Content Network ads take longer to launch because someone has to review them. Do they get categorized in that process? I can't imagine either human or automated systems would work very well.

[azlinda]

Thank you all for your responses. I just wish there were a way to block political ads.