Are more Adsense Advertisers Defaulting?

[gatormark]

Google tells us that “If an advertiser who has been serving ads on your site fails to pay Google, the earnings generated by those ads may be deducted from your AdSense balance.”

The last two months I’ve seen my AdSense balance decreasing every other day. Today, they removed $50 from my Adsense balance a day before payment. While this is a small percentage of what I get paid, I am wondering, is anybody else experiencing this clawback and do you think it is a result of advertisers defaulting on their payments to Google?

[tangor]

Might be the tip of the iceberg of upcoming legal issues regarding the g antitrust/monopoly issues in front of the courts right now. Would not be surprised that advertisers are catching on to the fact that what's been going on is not what was advertised in the first place.

MEANWHILE, from a publisher point of view, YOU offered the space for the ads, those ads were clicked, and through no fault of yours the advertiser fails to pay and YOU get penalized by claw backs? Something very wrong here: you have LOST that revenue opportunity already provided by that view/click, and still get nothing?

Okay, above might be a bit over the top but in the real world one has made an effort to provide a space and, through no fault of yours, you get penalized because of a third party's failure to honor financial commitments is an actionable response. Unfortunately, the way the game is played PUBLISHERS (webmasters) have no say but they bear the full cost of providing content, space, AND BANDWIDTH plus cost of connections and equipment with only a vague promise of income but face a very REAL problem of LOSS OF PROVIDED SERVICE EXPENSE with every claw back.

Then again, all of this kind of fails into the category that there are no CONTRACTS for service since it is all "free to play".

/rant

[Juniya]

We publishers really have no say or voice with Adsense, that is not fair at all smh!

[azlinda]

Google will always look out for themselves first. And that includes penalizing publishers when things go awry through no fault of their own. It's akin to apartment rentals. The base rate is just that. By the time they charge for all the add-ons, you're looking at $400-$500 over the base rate.