Try the new Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo! service

The Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo! service that we first mentioned in November is up and running. This beta program offers publishers a great opportunity to monetize PDFs with contextual, text-based ads next to your content.

So just how do you get an ad in a PDF? Ads will be displayed in a panel adjacent to your content, so that they don’t disrupt the viewing experience. Every time the PDF is viewed, we’ll match contextual ads from our extensive network of advertisers to the content of the document.

This program solves one of the problems of loading content into PDFs, which is that they use up bandwidth and storage in hosting them, but they don’t bring any additional payment unless you charge for them. So the more people download them, the more they potentially end up costing you.

It’s That Word, Again: Monetize

By signing up for this service, you get paid every time someone clicks on an ad displayed next to your PDF documents. So the more your document gets downloaded, the more potential it has to make you money. Wired, Pearson’s Education, Meredith Corporation and many other publishers are already active in the program.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and start generating revenue from your PDFs. If your application is accepted, you’ll just need to upload your PDFs so that we can ad-enable them. Then simply distribute them to your audience, just like you do today.

For more info, check out the Adobe blog.

–Mike McCullough