Horizontal Leaderboard Ads

They're back?

[Bastiat]

Anyone noticed that Adsense seems to be testing Horizontal Leaderboard Ads again? Saw a few on my site. Always kind of missed the old layout.

@ASA: giving the option to publishers to provide horizontal or vertical ads looks like a fairly easy one to implement. Do you believe that in the near future, this option will be added?

[AndyA]

I think Google should keep mixing it up to deter ad blindness. I think showing vertical one time, then horizontal the next is a good thing. I also think it's good to sometimes show one ad vs. two or three.

I wouldn't even mind if Google tried mixing image ads and text ads in the same ad block. It could be for the same advertiser, or an image ad for one and a text ad for another.

I don't really mind what Google does as long as they don't over ride colors, or add borders if the border color matches the background color, as they couldn't possibly know what colors would look good on any given page. (Or could they?)

I think it's a good idea to take steps to keep the ads fresh.