Year You Made the Most From AdSense?

Love to see some data

[Sally Stitts]

Which year did you make the most from AdSense?

The reason I ask is because I read MANY posts that the best days of AdSense are ... behind us.
But, then, I also know that those who are doing well, tend not to post about it. Soooo, can we get some data points, for fun?
I need to decide if I want to keep doing this. I am now getting a small fraction (1/40) of what I have achieved in the past.
(From 600 a day in 2013, to $15 a day now.) I'm trying to figure out why I am "40 times worse" than I used to be.
Esp., after jumping through all the new hoops required in the last 5 years.

I am asking each person who decides to respond, to please just give me 4 digits - such as 2013.

It will be fun to see if we can draw some conclusion, or any, conclusion at all.
I'll start.

2013 (additional comment if desired)
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[trebuchet]

Definitely 2012 and 2013. My sites were making close to four figures a day. They're now half that, despite content expansion and traffic growing incrementally year after year.

[koan]

Started in 2006. Best year was 2013. All downhill from there.

[explorador]

Which year did you make the most from AdSense?
2010 and 2011 in my case.

That was solid, steady, nice, almost exactly each month.
2012 was still good but less and showing decline.
2013 it was clear numbers were going down each month nonstop.

2012 and 2013... are to me what I consider "the social years", I hated it. Let's use this forum as an example for a parallel explanation: we post, we read, we interact and there are some events some times. Well imagine those two years most people posting on the threads "so, when are we going to meet? let's do something!". I mean a lot of contact from visitors showed a solid trend to get one on one, perhaps the effect of so many facebook groups. Suddenly instead of having a lot of people asking about monkeys on my monkey-website, people were asking for meetings, events, groups. That's also the year I started making it difficult to use a contact form to filter all of that.

[Edge]

2006 been roughly down hill from then. Traffic has tripled.

[Edge]

But, then, I also know that those who are doing well, tend not to post about it.

The evidence in my vertical is that everybody has lost revenue.