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Google Adsense now offers video ads for display on your web pages. There are two options, CPM or CPC payouts.

Some other features are new ad formats introduced with several block or square sizes and dimensions.

Click to play video ads, a new ad format for sites in the AdSense network, are now available for the Medium Rectangle (300 X 250), Large Rectangle (336 X 280) and Square (250 X 250) ad formats, as well as the newly launched Small Square (200 x 200) format. If you’re opted in to image ads and using one of these formats, video ads may appear on your pages. Video ads can be paid on either a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand-impressions basis. Curious about what video ads look like? Visit our Ad Formats page to view samples.

Read the full announcement from Google.

Most of us frequent forums on a regular basis, while many of us run forums. One of the biggest challenges I’ve found is converting my high-traffic forums into dollars. Advertisements can be ignored in the header and footer especially by those who frequent the forum on a regular basis.

This morning I came across the Google Adsense Help Center’s page about making adsense fit your forum.

Above is a sample heat map of the typical forum traffic hot spots where people view and click when visiting a forum. As you can see, it starts to resemble the “F-Pattern” that is commonly referred to when discussing the areas of a page that get the most eye balls.