April 2016 AdSense Earnings and Observations

[Mentat]

March 2016 was the first sign that the things could get better, let's see April 2016.
1st of April is not very promising, with -30% revenue vs last week.

[RedBar]

What amazes me that in almost 13 years and that I used to be in the UPS club, I've never, ever had an account manager.

[jjoz]

Whether it's coincidence or not, May 1 has me back to pre-April earnings. I hope this is a sign of things to come. It seems interesting that April 1 -> BAM -> earning down 70% and stay down to April 30, then May 1 -> BAM -> earnings back to normal.

[Ironside]

I also had a good May 1. More clicks than I've had for ages, plus more impressions and page views. I don't know whether this is anything to do with me increasing my core on the server which has increased the speed or my pages load. However, one would imagine that if people can move around your website quicker then it will result in more page views and exposure to ads. Anyway, it is only the first day so I'm not going to get too excited

[TheWebGuru]

First few days of May and I am seeing another big drop in RPM with page views only slightly up.

When I read the above comments by jjoz and Ironside I must of got my hopes up a little to quickly, when they noted that their May 1st stats looked like a sign of returning to the "Good days"

Sadly for myself, I am still stuck in January 2016 mode. ....which doesn't look pretty'

A quick note:

I have email support for my YouTube Channel(s) and I usually get a real person giving real answers(often very helpful advice) and some explanations.

Though, since the beginning of 2016 when the proverbial " pooh hit the fan" for many publishers.

I am now only getting copy and paste ( Generic ) responses, and no more responses from "Real People"

Just automated responses showing a list of issues that may cause problems.

So, it could be that Google (YouTube ) has retrenched(gotten rid of) their support staff, as another way of saving dollars.

I read an article a little while back that Google (YouTube) had to pay out a huge amount of money(Billions US Dollars) over a legal case they lost.

" What are you up to Google" ?

[Ironside]

Well, the first two days of May have got off to a pretty good start. Quite a high number of clicks and even though nothing compared to what it was like a while back, I'm happy with the earnings so far this month. Media.net is also got off to a good start for the first two days. This all seems to corresponds with increasing the number of CPUs my cloud server users. Everything is running much quicker now and I imagine people are able to move around my website that much more quicker. Let's hope it carries on like this.

[kireb]

Quite a good start of the month so far. I see an increase in RPM compared to last months. Hope it will stick.