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The Most Annoying Google AdSense Unit Is: The Large Rectangle

About 6 weeks ago, I polled our readers on which Google AdSense unit they found to be the most annoying. The results are in and the winner of the most annoying AdSense unit is the large rectangle unit.

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As you can see, the Large Rectangle, by far, beat out all the other units. What does the large rectangle look like? Here is a live large rectangle:


Here are the full results from the 108 responses:

Large Rectangle (336 x 280) - 29 - 27%
Medium Rectangle (300 x 250) - 21 - 19%
Leaderboard (728 x 90) - 14 - 13%
Wide Skyscraper (160x600) - 14 - 13%
Skyscraper (120x600)v8 - 7%
Banner (468 x 60) - 7 - 6%
Square (250 x 250) - 5 - 5%
Small Square (200 x 200) - 5 - 5%
Small Rectangle (180x150) - 3 - 3%
Vertical Banner (120 x 240) - 2 - 2%

Forum discussion continued at Google Groups.

Note: This article was written the week prior and scheduled to go live on August 21st.

posted rustybrick in Google AdSense at April 21, 2008 7:50 AM Comments (3)

Comments

That is ironical. I have found large rectangle to be most monetising.

Google also says its rectangles are highest revenue generators.

It could be sore to eyes but brings money.
Strangr combination

 

From my experience with display ads, the 300x250 box usually generates the most click thrus and conversions.

 

Undeniably, the large cube (336x280) is quite annoying, but I would suggest people switch to the second most annoying size - the 300x250 as that pays very well, and is also the preferred size for ad agencies running CPM deals.

If embedded within the content, the payout is quite high. I recently experimented with ditching the cube and the drop in earnings was catastrophic.

 

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