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We’ve been listening to your comments on our new ad management feature, and so we’re excited to tell you about a few updates that stem directly from your requests:You can now view the ID number associated with a specific custom channel by visiting the …

Our engineers have now resolved the phone verification issue we reported on Tuesday. If your account is still on a phone verification hold, please feel free to retry the verification process. For instructions on removing any holds on your account, visi…

In September, we introduced AdSense for mobile content to provide a simple solution for increasing revenue from your mobile sites. We recently interviewed Jaehong Lee from Japanese mobile site Mikle to find out more about his experience with using AdSe…

Recently, we launched the AdSense Story Contest and asked publishers like you to send in video of your experiences with AdSense. We were thrilled by the enthusiasm and creativity you put into these videos. Although we can only award one winner, we’ll …

We’d like to notify you about two issues related to November checks and phone verification.November checksIf you were issued a check at the end of November, you may have noticed the following message printed on the paystub:CREDIT NOTE -VAT OVERCHARGE B…

If you use AdSense for search on your pages, we’d like to let you know about an upcoming change on December 10th that will affect your top queries reports. To prepare for a few upcoming reporting enhancements, top queries data older than a year old wil…

UPDATE: The video units feature has been retired — however, you may wish to review the other revenue opportunities available for video content owners.Did you catch the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on Wednesday night? And are you interested in having …

We’d like to welcome Thai as the newest language to join the AdSense for search family. If you manage a site primarily in Thai, you can now offer Google search results directly on your pages and monetize the results pages. Don’t have an account yet? Fe…

Many of our publishers regularly ask what is exactly considered adult or mature content by AdSense policies. It’s a lot easier to understand when we speak about family-safe content. As you may already know, only ads classified as family-safe will be di…

It’s Black Friday, so a number of our U.S. publishers are probably burning off last night’s turkey right now by running around the mall looking for deals.If you find time to log in to your AdSense account between holiday shopping trips, please be sure …

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our U.S. publishers! We’d like to give thanks to all of our blog readers for your continued support, and we hope you have a safe and happy holiday weekend.We’ll be out of the office enjoying turkey (and then cold turkey san…

Since the launch of AdSense for search in Indonesian and Vietnamese, many publishers have requested that AdSense for content and referrals be added to their accounts. Unfortunately, we can’t do that, since we’re not yet able to support these options in…

UPDATE: The video units feature has been retired — however, you may wish to review the other revenue opportunities available for video content owners.Following their success in the U.S., we’re rolling out video units over the next several days to Engl…

Earlier this year we stepped back to examine the value users, advertisers, and publishers derive from clicks on content ads. As you integrate ads with your site’s content and navigation, we want to ensure a positive user experience. We identified a few…

We wanted to let you know about two recent changes to our site targeting feature. As you may know, site targeting allows advertisers to select specific publisher sites on which to run their ads. Advertisers can target your site if they’ve determined a …