AdSense pays publishers 78.5 cents on the dollar, according to NYTimes
January 15, 2006
I was reading the New York Times article (non-registration link here) tonight “Google’s shadow payroll is not such a secret anymore” (which features Shawn Hogan of Digital Point) and one paragraph literally jumped out at me - namely a specific figure given to the ultra secret revenue share.
Google.com and the company’s foreign search sites contribute more to Google’s bottom line than AdSense, because for every dollar the company brings in through AdSense and other places that distribute its ads, it pays roughly 78.5 cents back to sites like Digital Point that display the ads.
Yes, the article clearly states Google pays roughly 78.5 cents for every dollar an advertiser pays for advertising on partner sites. Unfortunately, it isn’t clearly attributed to anyone. However, this figure is definitely in the neighborhood of what I had believed the revenue split was at, so I do believe it is fairly accurate to my knowledge, based upon the information given in the SEC filings.
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January 16th, 2006 at 1:17 am
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January 16th, 2006 at 1:49 am
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January 16th, 2006 at 2:27 am
It’s on a $ 1 gross revenue… or on $ 1 net revenue?
January 16th, 2006 at 2:59 am
I was wondering the same thing as the previous commenter - it’s expensive to run a program like AdSense. I wonder if that’s the gross or net payout?
January 16th, 2006 at 3:14 am
Hemm, pretty good deal as Google is growin’ day by day and there is a need for Google to have open policies (though they never reveal anythin’ about AdSense!)
Just my 3-cent worth of comments. :p
January 16th, 2006 at 5:10 am
AdSense pays publishers 78.5 cents on the dollar, according to NYTimes
A recent New York Times article quotes Shawn Hogan, the owner and chief technology officer of, Di…
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January 16th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Adsense maksaa julkaisijoilleen 78,5 sentti? per dollari?
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January 16th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
10 grand/month he makes at Digital Point? I would’ve thought more - I make 80 million dollars a day. I’m lying. I’m sorry.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
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Jen hat einen interessanten Fund gemacht:
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January 17th, 2006 at 8:48 am
This is a clear case of a reporter not understanding Google - and not being able to read Google’s annual report. As John Battelle notes, and as I blogged about last March, this 78.5% figure is Google’s TAC - traffic acquisition costs.
It is definitely NOT the revenue split for AdSense for Content!
I.e. when Google gets clicks from AOL via AdSense for Search, they have to pay 78% of their revenue to AOL. That’s a negotiated deal with large traffic providers.
99.9% of AdSense for Content publishers have no such deal. Google takes a much larger percentage from bloggers than they do from negotiated search traffic sources.
Logically, as an AdSense expert do you think Google is paying 78% of what the AdWords bid is for a certain keyword?!? I think Google’s typical AdSense for Content payout is under 30% of the price on the AdWords keyword…
See here for more details:
http://gotads.blogspot.com/2005/03/goog-annual-report-must-re_111229081891402253.html
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Interestin peice over at Jensense saying that adsense apparently is
paying publishers 78.5 cents on the dollar she got the information from the
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Google zahlt 78,5 Prozent an seine Adsense-Partner
Die News ist zwar ein bisschen älter, ich kannte sie aber nicht. Also schreib ich was darüber
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When we think and talk about revenue models for user-distributed services such as widgets, one of the key questions is