Western Union payment options spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa

We’re working hard to give more of you more payment options. As part of our continued efforts to expand globally, we’re excited to announce the launch of Western Union Quick Cash® as an AdSense payment method to 11 additional countries in sub-saharan Africa: Reunion (FR), Tanzania, Madagascar, Seychelles, Cote d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Zambia, Benin, Burkina Faso and Gambia.

For those of you who aren't familiar with this form of payment, Western Union Quick Cash payments are free and will reach you faster than checks. Payments follow our normal payment schedule and are available for pickup in your local currency at your local Western Union agent the day after they're issued.

A couple of things to note: We can send Western Union payments only to publishers that have an individual account at this time. Also, the payee name on your account must exactly match the government-issued ID card that you'll use when picking up your payments. For more information on how to sign up for and pick up Western Union payments, please visit our Help Center.

If you don’t yet have Western Union Quick Cash as a payment method in your country, we hear your feedback and appreciate your patience as we work to make this available. Keep checking in on the Inside AdSense blog, as we’ll post all future launches here!

Posted by Julia Peppiatt - AdSense Payments team

AdSense Indonesia is now on Twitter

Selamat datang publisher Indonesia di @IDAdSense!

We’re excited to let you know that our Indonesian Twitter account has officially launched. Now you can get the latest updates on AdSense in Bahasa Indonesia by following @IDAdSense on Twitter. You can also find out our best practices and optimization tips to maximize the revenue of your site.

Every month, we’ll have a special week where you can ask questions about a certain topic that we’ll discuss. We'll have an AdSense expert do their best to answer your questions. Find out more about the special week by following @IDAdSense.

Indonesian joins our other global Twitter channels in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Turkish, and Japanese. Sign in to your twitter account now, and start following us in the language of your choice!

Posted by Niken Sasmaya - Inside AdSense team

AdSense for mobile content in 15 new countries

We’re excited to announce the launch of AdSense for mobile content in 15 new countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Slovenia, Thailand, and Turkey.

AdSense for mobile content allows publishers to generate earnings from their mobile webpages using targeted Google ads. Just like AdSense for content, Google matches ads to the content of your site -- in this case, your mobile site. You'll earn money whenever visitors to your mobile site click on the ads they see.

For mobile websites, AdSense will automatically detect the type of phone viewing your site and deliver ads to match. For example, if someone views your site through an iPhone, we'll deliver ads specifically designed for high-end phones.

Please note that AdSense for mobile content ad units may be used in mobile websites only, not in mobile applications -- our policies don't permit placement of AdSense for mobile content ads in a mobile application. If you’re looking for an advertising solution for your mobile application, sign up for AdMob, Google’s leading mobile advertising display product.

Posted by Emanuele Brandi - Product Sales Lead

Happy summer holidays

It's that time of year again! The seasons are changing and our Dublin team is ready for the heat. Sending all of our publishers around the world the best wishes for the months ahead!


Posted by Katrina Kurnit - Inside AdSense Team

One week left to Doodle 4 AdSense

With only one week left to submit your very own AdSense logo for our Doodle 4 AdSense showcase, we wanted to highlight the amazing submissions we’ve gotten so far. Take a look at our Facebook album featuring entries from creative publishers across the world. We’ll be posting the submissions as they come in waves for the next few weeks, so keep checking back for more awesome doodles!

Inspired to create your own? Get doodling and submit your logo before May 20th. We’ll post all submissions that adhere to our Terms and Conditions on the Facebook page, so the world can see what AdSense looks like to you.

Posted by Katrina Kurnit - Inside AdSense team

Western Union now in available in 13 additional countries

Good news! We’ve expanded Western Union Quick Cash® as an AdSense payment method to 13 additional countries: Georgia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Libya, Senegal, Mauritius, and Cameroon.

For those of you who aren't familiar with this form of payment, Western Union Quick Cash payments are free and will reach you faster than checks. Payments follow our normal payment schedule and are available for pickup in your local currency at your local Western Union agent the day after they're issued.

A couple of things to note: We can send Western Union payments only to publishers that have an individual account at this time. Also, the payee name on your account must exactly match the government-issued ID card that you'll use when picking up your payments. For more information on how to sign up for and pick up Western Union payments, please visit our Help Center.

For those of you who do not yet have Western Union Quick Cash as a payment method in your country, we appreciate your patience as we work to make this available. Keep checking in on the Inside AdSense blog for future launches!

Posted by Julia Peppiatt - AdSense Payments team

Submit to the Doodle 4 AdSense showcase

We’ve heard some amazing stories over the years about how AdSense has changed your businesses and your lives. Whether allowing you to retire early, send your kids to college, or quit your day job to pursue your true passion, success with AdSense looks different to everyone.

We want to celebrate AdSense and you, our amazingly creative publishers, by launching our first ever Doodle 4 AdSense showcase. What’s Doodle 4 AdSense? It’s the opportunity to create your own AdSense logo to be featured on the Inside AdSense blog, our Facebook page, and Twitter channel so publishers around the world can see what AdSense means to you. Submit your own here!

We’ll post the first round of submissions that adhere to our Terms and Conditions on May 3rd, and close the form on May 20th. Get doodling!

Posted by Katrina Kurnit - Inside AdSense team

Great speeches, great people, great atmosphere: AdSense in Zurich

Two weeks ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming 120 of our publishers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France at an AdSense publisher event in our Google office in Zurich.

The agenda of the day included seminars and presentations about:

• Trends in the online advertising market and how to use them for your site
• Our best tips to optimize your AdSense earnings
• Using DFP Small Business to get more out of AdSense
• Website usability
• The truth about common SEO myths

We also offered attendees 1-on-1 site consultations with a Google AdSense optimization specialist and ended the day by kicking back with pizza and beer to get to know one another a little better!

It was great to meet you in person to learn more about your businesses and experience with AdSense. We were thrilled to hear positive feedback from the attendees on the event and hope to offer a similar opportunity in a city near you soon!

Interested in attending future Google AdSense events? Check your Account settings and make sure you’re opted in to our mailings so we can inform you about our upcoming events!



Posted by Marcel Puppik and Sophie Emmerich - AdSense Optimisation Specialists

Western Union now in Mexico

We constantly strive to provide more payment options to our publishers around the world so you can receive your earnings as safely and quickly as possible. As part of this effort, we're very excited to announce the arrival of Western Union Quick Cash® payments for Mexico!

For those of you who aren't familiar with this form of payment, Western Union Quick Cash payments are free and will reach you faster than checks. Payments will continue to follow our normal payment schedule and are available for pickup in your local currency at your local Western Union agent the day after they're issued.

A couple of things to note: We can send Western Union payments only to publishers that have an individual account at this time. Also, the payee name on your account must exactly match the government-issued ID card that you'll use when picking up your payments. For more information on how to sign up for and pick up Western Union payments, please visit our Help Center.

We know that many of you are still waiting for new forms of payment and new delivery options for your country, and we’re working hard to make this possible. Stay tuned to the blog as we work to improve the payments experience for publishers around the world!

To read this article in Spanish, click here.

Posted by Julia Peppiatt - AdSense Payments team

Donate your ad cents (and dollars) to help Japan

A few weeks ago, we posted about how you can help Japan by donating via our crisis response page. We’ve been working to enable you to directly donate your AdSense earnings, and are happy to announce that you can donate a portion or all of your entire unpaid balance as of March 31, 2011 to the Japanese Red Cross via the Tides Foundation by filling out this donation form. If you have at least $10 in your account, we invite you to donate your earnings between April 1 and April 12.

Please keep in mind that all our normal policies still apply -- so please don't ask others to click on your ads in order to increase your earnings.

Due to technical limitations, we can only provide the opportunity for you to donate your earnings directly from your AdSense account if your reporting currency is in U.S. Dollars. If your reporting currency isn't in USD, and you'd still like to donate your AdSense earnings, please use the crisis response page instead.

We know that you may be interested in donating your earnings to additional charities and causes, and we're working to enable this functionality soon for all publishers. Stay tuned to the Inside AdSense blog for future opportunities to donate in other ways!

Posted by Julia Peppiatt - AdSense Payments Specialist

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