...can now take advantage of elegant ad templates and also enter a competition to have your own TV ad published for free.

New High Quality Ad Templates
As part of ongoing enhancements to their display ad builder, Google have released a range of elegant ad templates which features subtle backgrounds, gradients and also people. In addition, advertisers can also select from a range of 13 new fonts.

Below are some examples comparing the older style templates to the new elegant designs:

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TV for All Contest
The second round of news this week is Googles announcement of their TV for all contest. Basically, its a competition Google are running to promote their TV Ads program whereby contestants submit a TV ad theyve created and the winner gets $25,000 worth of promotion via the Google TV Ad network.

Contestants can create an ad themselves, or use SpotMixer, a self-service video creation tool. If youre interested in participating, visit the contest here and submit your video: www.youtube.com/tvforallcontest

That wraps up a busy week for the Google AdWords team. If youve created a TV ad or used Googles new templates, leave a comment with them below so our readers can check them out.

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