Adsense now displaying photos
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 28th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Google, Google Adsense, PPCV7N are reporting (from Jensense source) that Adsense are now displaying photos in place of text adverts. I noticed this yesterday on my career advice site - a generic picture of some random “business” type guy was placed in the top ad spot (rest of the ads were text - job / cv related).
The photo adverts take you to a link unti type advert page, which IMO is pretty shit anyway and could be designed a lot better for CTR. Not a huge fan of link units as you can see. ;) Google could make a lot more cash from just sending the user to the top paying advertiser for the keyword rather than to a page of adverts (I mean come on - who wants to be taken to a page full of adverts!).
Some examples of the images on the Jensense link above - they seem to be generic stock photography - nothing particularly inspiring. I’d imagine they would have a decent CTR impact on Google’s network of spam sites. 
