Google and Gambling Ads

[bj3000]

What about Yahoo?
I had Google ads in 2006, but it was for the norwgian marked, where it is illegal.
Fisrt I made ads for a plain site aboute the place I am living, got it accepted, and after some few days, I changed the page on the account to a gambling portal.

It worked for exatly 17 min.!
Then they took it away..

Then I lisenced Axandra IBP, (http://www.axandra.com/ ) and since that, most of my pages has been on the fisrt place in Google...
But back to yahoo... I know that it is the Google who is the king, but I am getting hits from Yahoo as well. Do they have the same law aboute gambling adds?

[gamblingtraffic]

Yahoo! Search Marketing has sent an email to its advertisers in the U.K. advising them about a change in Yahoo! policy with regards to gambling ads. The policy change has been made following a change in U.K. legislation regarding advertising of gambling services. It used to be illegal to issue ads that contained any invitations for gambling, or a mention of the money, bonuses or prizes that could be won by gambling. Following the recent changes in legislation, any or all of the above subjects can be incorporated into an ad. Yahoo! has decided to update its own editorial policy and allow gambling to be promoted in ads displayed through their search marketing platform. The email sent by Yahoo! says this.

[mmmoo]

I had an ad on Google Adwords for my Deal Or No Deal Online Game page, and it managed to stay up for about 3 weeks before they realised that the Deal Or No Deal game was played for real money and therefore gambling, and it was taken down straight away!

Anyway, the revenue generated was about the same as the cost of the ads so I wasnt too bothered!

I see there are still loads of Google ads still up for Deal Or no Deal

Mike

[alexpratt]

I have been up there since August and was breaking all sorts of rules including having multiple $$ in the title - Sadly my ads all got disqualified last week....Oh well it was fun while it lasted....Hopefully I can get back up there soon

[bb1web]

funny you mentioned google being so Nazi ... when my experience it was yahoo that went ape-shoot over my having ads and google would just say they were denying the ad ...

but I do advertise with them for other things. And spend some dough doing it.

but ya that's weird ... and scary. I used to just try anything with google and figured worst case scenario was they'd say no. Never thought they'd be the PPC Nazi : NO ADS FOR YOU TODAY!



yahoo, I had to set up a new account using a different name and cc.

[wallstreeterww]

Hopefully soon new legistlation can be passed about online gambling ads in the states. Maybe it will happen with a new president.

[AussieWebmaster]

Yahoo! Search Marketing has sent an email to its advertisers in the U.K. advising them about a change in Yahoo! policy with regards to gambling ads. The policy change has been made following a change in U.K. legislation regarding advertising of gambling services. It used to be illegal to issue ads that contained any invitations for gambling, or a mention of the money, bonuses or prizes that could be won by gambling. Following the recent changes in legislation, any or all of the above subjects can be incorporated into an ad. Yahoo! has decided to update its own editorial policy and allow gambling to be promoted in ads displayed through their search marketing platform. The email sent by Yahoo! says this.

funny they do not seem to be running many ads so maybe there is a little more to this.... or companies would be all over it