Friday, January 19th, 2007 by Andy Beal

JenSense has the scoop on Google’s policy change that will allow publishers to display competing contextual ad units, alongside AdSense, so long as they don’t look like Google’s ads.
“When it comes to enforcing policies on third-party contextual ads, we’ll be following the updated program policies instead of the T&Cs on this point. That is to say, publishers may now display other contextual ads on the same site or page as Google ads as long as they don’t have the same look and feel as our ads,” Brian Axe tells Jennifer Slegg of JenSense.
Jennifer does warn that you still have to ensure the other ad units don’t have a TOS that prevents you showing alongside others. e.g. Yahoo still won’t let you show their ads alongside other contextual ad units, such as AdSense.

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Andy Beard Says:
January 19th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Hi Andy
It isn’t actually just related to adverts, I managed to scoop a few other details.
Nick Says:
January 20th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hey Andy -
allow you to advertise next to as many other ad units as you’d like.
Just wanted to let you know that free advertising networks such as adgridwork.com (shameless plug
-Nick