Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Adsense program.
Here is what Google had to say about the 10 year anniversary:
“Ten years ago we launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as AdSense went live that first day. Our small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and right away we saw that publishers were as excited about AdSense as we were.
Fast-forward 10 years, and AdSense has become a core part of Google’s advertising business.
The AdSense community has grown to include more than 2 million publishers, and last year alone, publishers earned more than $7 billion from AdSense.
AdSense is a community that thrives because of all the content creators we are so fortunate to partner with. Their stories inspire us to do our part to make AdSense great.
On this occasion, it’s especially inspiring to hear the stories of partners who have been with us since the very beginning—like a retiree in New Zealand who was able to pursue her dream of writing about her garden, a tech support expert in Colorado who can spend more time with his kids, and a theme park reviewer who now sends employees around the world to test and review rides—all thanks to money earned from AdSense.
… and every day since they’ve found some reason to not pay publishers for “invalid click activity”, but without ever explaining what the activity was or how it compromised advertisers. After all, that’s proprietary. I like Google on one hand; I hate Google on the other.
Eventually, publishers that have or gain a sufficient volume of traffic can tell Google to go *@!# itself; others have to provide e-fellatio or e-tail.
’nuff said!