Beware of Overkill! Google Moves Adsense into Games!

Posted by admin on October 8, 2008 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Free Games are Great! But the Developers (and retailers like us!) have to eat! So we tolerate that little ad at the start of the game….. Google today is starting a big push into in-game advertising with Adsense for Games and a parallel move into advertising/selling games and music on YouTube through Click-to-Buy .

Again we have nothing against that short unobtrusive relevant ad at the start of the game, or at the very worst occasional ones between levels. But watching the promo video above we are really afraid it is going to be overdone now that Google has landed. We are really not that interested in seeing Big Mac Ads in our games and certainly not multiple ads that really break up game flow.

Going forward we will try to keep an eye on the In-Game ads in the games we showcase on our free games blog and on gamegiants.net. We play every game that we list to sell and we play every game we put on our free games blog. If the ads in a game get out of hand… You won’t see that game here.