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Google launches AdSense for smartphones

By Alex Farber
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:07

Google has launched an AdSense for Mobile service aimed at high-end phones with larger screens.

Publishers will now be able to display much larger ads on their mobile sites to visitors using smartphones such as the iPhone. Previously only small text and image ads could be displayed.

Danielle VanDyke, software engineer for Google, said, “With the growth in popularity of high-end mobiles with full internet browsers, like the iPhone and phones running Android, advertisers are increasingly extending their campaigns to mobile devices. Because these offer a rich content experience similar to the desktop, advertising on them is a natural extension for many advertisers.”

In July Google launched AdSense for Mobile Apps and began serving ads into Android and iPhone apps. However, it came under fire from advertisers and trade bodies for automatically signing up brands to link ads through to online websites rather than mobile-enabled sites.

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