Thanks

Yeah I'm not sure what VB are doing with AdSense. It's odd for them to be working with Google.

they're asking what!:eek:
hmm, I'm not very happy with this either
but than again, I need to renew my license to even get to 3.8..lol
with a little research I seen this.

So what happens if your banned from adsense? or don't want to make an adsense account? or what if your working on someone else's forum... I'll have to enter a madeup pub-XXXXXXXXXXX if I need to dl the script for someone else.

That is a stupid move jelsoft IMHO ;)

I guess I'll just have to check out this ads CP, are you able to use other advertisers?

You can associate your vBulletin Customer account with your Google Adsense account or if you don't have an account, sign up for one from in the vBulletin Member's Area. This allows people to quickly and easily include Adsense ads from the Admin CP of your vBulletin installations. It is a standard basic implementation developed in cooperation with Google. This is a quick and easy way for forum owners to place advertising if they do not have advertising already and want to monetize their forums.

It however is not the only way to include advertising and you can continue to use the advertising templates or other methods to insert your own advertising.

Associating your vBulletin Customer Account with a Google Adsense account is not mandatory but just another service that we felt would be beneficial to our customers.

Have google bought IB?

Thanks for clearing that up

upgrade now nice

Upgraded my own forum to 3.8 now. Overjoyed at the idea of 38 template edits required (not).

The adsense is a nice addition but my own mods work much better. I edited the postbit template to show my ads like follows: one after the first post, and one before and after the last post in the thread. This keeps the ads in the readers eyes and not simply lost at the top and bottom of the page.

I'm really curious about the vb-google deal, probably vb will get several new referrals. Hopefully there will be some hot stuff behind this (Can't get enough of conspiracies and bribes :P)