This Friday, dozens of reports came from the Google AdSense Help forum that Google AdSense ads were simply not loading.

The reports continued throughout the day and publishers were not making money, at all.

The reports were sporadic, not all publishers saw their ads as being offline, only some.

Google confirmed the issue at Marketing Land and in the Google AdSense Help forums. Chris from Google said:

Then later on in the day, he said it was fixed:

But even after that post, some publishers said there was still an issue. But now, a few days later, it seems everyone now is serving up ads properly. It is however still listed on the known issues page as an issue.

One publisher asked a legit question:

Yep, if no one saw the ads – I doubt you’ll be getting paid for it.

Forum discussion at Google AdSense Help.