Ask HN: How much do you make from Google AdSense per day?
OP, we&#x27;re close, I&#x27;m averaging 130 USD&#x2F;day for 2016. It jumps all over though, and I might see 200 USD days, and 90 USD days, even though traffic and clicks remain level. It&#x27;s from a single site. About 60% of my users run ad block (young, male, tech audience, mostly on desktop).<p>Ad revenues drop year after year. I think it&#x27;s a dying business in its current form.<p>I think an API should be available for advertising. The API would provide the name of the advertisement, the description, colour scheme, image, and more. Then, developers can use that information to work the advertisement into their site in an attractive and seamless manner.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;9ecRa5o.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;9ecRa5o.png</a><p>An example is above. Instead of having a leaderboard advertisement for Chrome, HN could get the advertisement details, and insert it into the site to resemble a post. Every site could then style the advertisement their own way.<p>I think it&#x27;s less annoying to users, fast to load, users are more likely to read and click it in comparison to a banner they&#x27;re blind towards, advertisers would get more for their money, and publishers don&#x27;t need to destroy their site with gaudy flashing boxes that everyone ignores. It&#x27;s a win-win-win situation, and my vision for the future of advertising.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m looking to drop AdSense in the near future and try alternative revenue streams. I worked hard to develop my community. I don&#x27;t like pushing some ugly, irrelevant, tracking filled ads on my users, in exchange for a few cents on every thousand impressions. It&#x27;s a business that needs fixing, because advertisers are getting ripped off, users are bending over or forced to install ad blockers, and publishers need to keep pushing more and more advertisements to make the same revenue they earned last year. I&#x27;m surprised Google hasn&#x27;t been more innovative in this space considering it&#x27;s their bread and butter.