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# Google AdSense On ColumbiaRecords.com
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/google-adsense/
- Published: 2008-07-28T04:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-07-28T04:11:00.000Z
- Description: This one comes courtesy of Bob Lefsetz and should he filed under "What Were They Thinking?". Columbia Records is running ads from Vonage and Google’s AdSense on their from page. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/07/google-adsense.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

[![Columbia](https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize/www.hypebot.com/hypebot/images/2008/07/27/columbia.jpg "Columbia")](https://www.hypebot.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/27/columbia.jpg)

  
This one comes courtesy of [Bob Lefsetz](http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/?ref=hypebot.com) and should he filed under "What Were They Thinking?". Columbia Records is running [ads from Vonage and Google’s AdSense](http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/?ref=hypebot.com) on their from page and throughout their flagship site. Don’t believe me? [Go to Columbia.com now](http://www.columbiarecords.com/?ref=hypebot.com)….but be sure to come back and tell us what you think.

Even if it’s somehow OK to put ads on a corporate web site, is this really the best Columbia can do? Couldn’t they at least  
attract some hip fashion or lifestyle

[![Google_adsense_2](https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize/www.hypebot.com/hypebot/images/2008/07/27/google_adsense_2.jpg "Google_adsense_2")](https://www.hypebot.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/27/google%5Fadsense%5F2.jpg)

companies? Or why not trade ads  
with someone like Last.fm that they’re paying good money to be on?  
Of course, who I am I to get all uppity? Yesterday one of our ad  
providers Adify was running dating ad on Hypebot. But this blog has no  
income other than ads and Columbia has all that money they’re making  
companies like YouTube and "forgetting" to pass along to the artist. I  
wonder if I can sneak an add for a Universal act onto the Columbia site?

Do you think a band or label should put unrelated ads on their web site?