This is news from three months ago, so it's probably fair to note, from the same article:

UPDATE: Here’s a response from MySpace:

"MySpace and Google have a long-standing, productive partnership... It's extremely premature to speculate on what either company may do in 18 months."

[edited by: martinibuster at 2:48 am (utc) on May 5, 2009]

More likely it'll be renewed but with many changes.

Google is pushing myspace still so I'm sure they will renew. We had a google rep recommend that we use MySpace as a placement. The test went very poorly. Has anyone ever done placement on myspace and seen it go well. I had another client with a very good content network campaign and one day it went very bad. I did a placement report and noticed that slowly MySpace had been creeping into it. We did a negative site on myspace and that cleared it right up. I would stay away from MySpace.

The way it sounds is that AdSense, even if the economy turns around, won't be getting any better and continue to deteriorate. What would it take on AS' part for conditions to improve for publishers?

The way it sounds is that AdSense, even if the economy turns around, won't be getting any better and continue to deteriorate.

Why do you think that?

What would it take on AS' part for conditions to improve for publishers?

Just having the ads hitting closer to target would help a lot. Right now pages I have dealing with ARM CPUs often get mortgage and surgery ads. Funny thing, they don't get many clicks.

With the amount of stolen/hotlinked content on Myspace, I am surprised google allows adsense on there at all. So few would pass the TOS.

With the amount of stolen/hotlinked content on Myspace, I am surprised google allows adsense on there at all.

With the huge amount of traffic there, I'd be very surprised if Google didn't overlook their content issues.