Google celebrates 10th anniversary of AdSense, says its 2M publishers earned $7B last year

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As we told you last week, Google’s ad business brings in a lot of money, and today, it will celebrate the ten year anniversary of one of its most successful platforms to date. In a post on the official Google blog, Susan Wojcicki, Google’s SVP of ads and commerce, announced that ten years ago today, the company launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing ads on their websites. Fast forward 10 years and AdSense is now used by more than 2 million publishers, who earned a combined total of more than $7 billion last year alone.

Happy birthday @AdSense! 10 years after launch, more than 2 million publishers earn money from AdSense http://t.co/IAVeeBvkxl

— Google (@Google) June 18, 2013

Google touts that people have been able to live their dream job thanks to the money AdSense gets them.

On this occasion, it’s especially inspiring to hear the stories of partners who have been with us since the very beginning—like a retiree in New Zealand who was able to pursue her dream of writing about her garden, a tech support expert in Colorado who can spend more time with his kids, and a theme park reviewer who now sends employees around the world to test and review rides—all thanks to money earned from AdSense.

The company says it will hold a 10th anniversary celebration today at 10AM PT (1PM ET, 5PM GMT) via a live Hangout on Air. It will take place on the official AdSense Google+ page and will feature several AdSense partners telling their story. Here are a few of those stories:

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