Forum Moderators: goodroi
This week marks the fifth year of Google Grants. We're pleased to report that more than 4,000 grantees to date have benefited from approximately $273.3 million in free AdWords advertising -- and that's something to celebrate. [googleblog.blogspot.com]
Not generous at all - Google claims to support 4,000 grantees with free AdWords advertising: so they pay nothing.
Adsense publishers display the ads. We get nothing - not even thanks from "Generous" Google.
Well, Thanks, Google!
1. Restricted to Google properties
or
2. Paid as normal to publishers, with the advertiser being given what's in effect free credit - like the signup bonus you often see with PPC (but on a much larger scale).
I'd be shocked if they let grant ads run on AdSense and then not pay publishers.
I've no complaints about public service ads - I prefer that to a blank space on my pages. But I don't like Google claiming to 'give away' $273m - without so much as a "Thanks" to the publishers who actually do the 'giving away'.
Jean Paul Sartre used to call it 'bad faith' - these days, it's just 'PR'. And I don't mean page rank.
[edited by: Quadrille at 3:49 am (utc) on April 4, 2008]
Might it be that G has kind of a two-tiered system for this? The PSAs and how they handle those on the AdSense side we know about. But how 'bout, maybe they provide legitimate AdWords impressions -- actual funded keyword campaigns and not just PSAs -- for the grantees? Possible, no?
But with $273m's worth, I think we'd know for sure ;)
