It doesn't matter if the ad is like a pre-recorded ad from a third-party, or a show-halting, host-read ad. Yes, I agree that those ads are not the same, and people are generally more receptive to host-read ads, where the host of the podcast, or the YouTube video, or the author of the blog post, are themselves reading out the ads.
And it gets more interesting when you throw in affiliate products. And the creative and organic host-read ads.
If you know someone who tells you that they love ads, or they like ads, they're either lying to you, or something is wrong with them and you need to tell them to get their head checked LOL!
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My AdSense earnings would fluctuate between $500 to $1500, most of the time averaging about $1000. But I never averaged more than that through AdSense ads. This, despite being #1 on Google, getting tons of traffic, targeted audience, despite buying every course on AdSense and SEO and list-building and optimizing every darn part of my website, constantly creating traffic and on and on and on. The work to stay at the top of Google as relentless, but all of that work didn't payoff as much as it should have, given that I did reach #1 on Google and built a list of more than half a million email subscribers at one point.
You know why it didn't work? Because ads generally don't work for most people - not for most publishers and content creators, anyway.
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