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We’re excited to let you know that we’ve just launched a 7th international AdSense blog — Inside AdSense: AdSense 日本版 公式ブログ. There, you’ll be able to read up on the latest feature launches and find answers to your AdSense questions, all in Japanese. Going forward, our Japanese support team will provide optimization advice to help you maximize your earnings, and will also feature Japanese-speaking publishers who have found success with the AdSense program.

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Inside AdSense now speaks Japanese

This week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of click-to-play video ads. To that end, we thought it’d be fitting to introduce three new members of our click-to-play video ads family: the 728×90 Leaderboard, the 120×600 Skyscraper, and the 160×600 Wide Skyscraper. Previously, video ads were only enabled for the 300×250 Medium Rectangle, the 336×280 Large Rectangle, the 200×200 Small Square, and the 250×250 Square.

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Make room for new video ad formats

As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason. For this reason, we’ve received many emails from publishers letting us know that they’ve accidentally clicked on their own ads. If you’re one of these publishers, we truly appreciate the efforts you’ve made to monitor your account and keep it in good standing. However, we do understand that an accidental click may occur from time to time, so there’s no need to contact us each instance this occurs.

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Accidents happen

You’ve heard the expression “Content is king.” We completely agree, and we also realize that these days website content is much more than just text — it’s also video. That’s why we’re excited to announce that this week, we’re launching a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads in their online video content. With this pilot, publishers control when the ads play in their videos and choose which videos get the ads.

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AdSense coming to a video near you

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Do you know what language is spoken in parts of Spain, France, and Italy, and is the national language of Andorra? (Ok, we may have made it too obvious with the title above.) We’re pleased to let you know that publishers can now display targeted AdSense for content ads on pages in Catalan. Visit the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab in your account to generate ad code, then paste it onto your pages and let our system take care of the rest.

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AdSense for content launches in Catalan

In this week’s ‘Policy Thursday’ post, we’d like to follow up on one of Mike’s previous posts to highlight a more specific example of encouraging clicks that we often receive emails about. Many publishers have asked if they can place text on their sites which states that all or a portion of the earnings generated through AdSense will be donated to charity or another third party.

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Clicks for charity?

A number of publishers have asked us about phone verification and indicated that they’re having difficulty with the process. After investigating these reports, we’ve discovered that our system is currently experiencing intermittent outages. We’re working hard to fix the issue as soon as we can and appreciate your patience in the interim.

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Verifying your phone number

Mom always said to go out and play on the weekends. Well, we hope you take her advice especially on this Mother’s Day weekend while our engineers perform routine maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT on Saturday, May 12th. You won’t be able to access your account during this 4-hour window, but rest assured that your ads will continue to run and that your reports will still track all activity. Here’s the maintenance start time converted for a few cities around the world:

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Site maintenance on Saturday, May 12th

We understand that there’s been some confusion surrounding our recent post about accidental clicks. Specifically, many of our publishers feel that we’ve been sending mixed messages about placing ads near navigation controls, particularly where site optimization is concerned.

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A clarification on accidental clicks