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Google AdSense

Ad network and the payment rail behind YouTube payouts · San Francisco Bay Area

Founded
2003
Entered
2005
Placed at
2005: founded 2003, before the timeline start; shown from 2005
Status 2026
Active
Metro
San Francisco Bay Area
Embeddedness
1 connections
Confidence
verified · strongest source other web

Method

Google launches AdSense in June 2003 after buying Applied Semantics, paying content partners 68 percent of ad revenue. Every YouTube Partner Program payment since 2007 is settled through an AdSense account, which makes AdSense the oldest payout rail in the creator economy. By 2005 it is about 15 percent of Google's revenue and by 2021 more than 38 million sites use it. AdSense moves display publishers to per impression payment in 2024. It is headquartered with Google in Mountain View.

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  • came out ofGoogleGoogle launches AdSense in June 2003 after acquiring Applied Semantics, later the payment rail for all YouTube creator earnings.2003
Sources (other web): en.wikipedia.org · ppc.land