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A WebmasterWorld thread has a couple AdSense publishers reporting that Google is testing a new AdSense layout. The new layout hows the ad title and ad description on a single line. This is instead of showing the ad title and then a break and then a ad description.
Here is a picture of the new ad format, which I found on Digital Inspiration:
Another thing I noticed, which may not be all that new, is that Google AdSense Featured Ads, which were initially marked by a gold star are now marked by yellow light bulbs. Here is a picture of what those light bulb ads look like:
Here is the previous version, the gold star version:
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Simon
04/29/2010 06:50 pm
The above ad unit is a custom ad unit - not Google testing a new ad layout - they don't provide non IAB sizes for default layouts.
Becky Sharpe
04/30/2010 12:36 pm
Yes, I spotted a couple of light bulbs identifying "featured ads" earlier this week in a standard layout.
Stephen
07/28/2010 02:15 am
Yes this weird ads appear on my site, sometime shown start and sometimes mark with bubble light bulbs what that's mean? I cross to the internet and i found this article thank you for sharing. Nice info.