This year I’m hoping it will be an iPhone :)

If they can’t do that, my alternate hope would be that they’d dump that stupid channel id and do it like Chitika: let us use channel names that we do not have to predefine.

Looks nice, everybody talks about it for days on end, and you can boast about it when yours is big, however the excitement dies down quickly after the first few days.

Maybe it’s the Christmas effect, but my earnings have gone up since the changes. They certainly haven’t gone down, anyway.

I’m not sure every publisher who gets a gift also gets “special treatment” — I think the thresholds are quite different.

It’s nice that the better publishers get something from Google in the holidays. Makes for something more to look forward to (or hope for).

Maybe it’ll be something that you could offer up as a prize in one of your contests. That way you win more traffic and someone else could say that they had something that came as a gift from Google – even though Google didn’t send it to them.

What do you think the AdSense Christmas gift will be this year?

The special treatment they already get seems like a pretty darn good gift.

I saw a rise in my Adsense Income after the change. Maybe the enhancements would be something along the google trends widget or similar stuff. And by the way I haven’t received any gifts till date… :) . Hope it is a big Adsense check ;P

Darren, as there’s a lot of people hurting from the PR massacre and the clickable areas, this might be a good time to run some more articles on how to sell your own links or alternative monetisation. I’m down 50% on previous months with more traffic.