19 Aug 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is rolling out the second phase of its multimillion-pound Windows 7 campaign today (19..., The Guardian and Metro, with online ads running until September.
Leila Martine from Microsoft commented ...
officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
In June, Microsoft unveiled an interactive ad platform ...
16 Aug 2011
| by John Reynolds
Microsoft has parted company with one its top marketing executives, Alex Payne, who is taking...Microsoft has yet to replace Payne, who spent 11 years at he technology company. Latterly, he was marketing director for Microsoft's Bing search offering in the UK.
At PokerStars, Payne replaces Gabi ...
for a full-time candidate to fill the role.
During his time at Microsoft, Payne also held a number ...
28 Jul 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Johnston Press has appointed Ashley Highfield, former vice-president of Microsoft UK¹s consumer...opportunities and to spend time with his family.
Highfield joined Microsoft in January 2009, to head up ...
at the company.
Last week, Microsoft said it was looking for a new role for Highfield within the company ...
sources to be put in charge of the separate advertising and online division.
However, Microsoft ...
28 Jul 2011
| by Alasdair Reid
December 2009: When Chris Ward, Microsoft UK's commercial director, decides not to return to his job after a sabbatical, Ashley Highfield, Microsoft's managing director of consumer and online, hands ...
't immediately replaced. However, this doesn't impede Microsoft's determination to innovate on the sales side ...
28 Jul 2011
| by Sara Luker
Microsoft faced a torrent of online criticism following a tweet from its Xbox 360 PR Twitter...HOW I SEE IT
Neil Bayley, Corporate practice leader, Porter Novelli
The Microsoft tweet was open to misinterpretation because it is so hard to convey tone through the brevity of social ...
fast with a clear response.
It was enough that Microsoft tweeted twice after the negative response ...
22 Jul 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Microsoft's online services division, which includes Bing, MSN and advertising sales, has recorded...'s operating loss grew 9%, from $2.34bn last year, which Microsoft blamed on the cost of revenue increasing ...
.
Online advertising revenue grew by $358m, or 19%, to $2.3bn.
Microsoft said: "Search revenue grew ...
22 Jul 2011
Microsoft has appointed Andy Hart, the former managing director of Associated Northcliffe Digital
19 Jul 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has appointed Andy Hart, a former MD of Associated Northcliffe Digital, to head up its...Earlier this month (5 July), Marketing unveiled that Microsoft was overhauling its UK operations ...
that of former commercial director at Microsoft Advertising Chris Maples, who left the company in January ...
Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK.
Neil Thompson, formerly general manager of Microsoft ...
05 Jul 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is overhauling its UK operations in an attempt to align its consumer and business...Microsoft's two UK marketing divisions, Consumer and Online and Central Marketing Group, are to be merged as part of the restructure.
The enlarged Marketing and Operations (M O) department will be led ...
.
It is not known what roles they will take after the re-structuring is complete. Microsoft did not respond to a ...
27 Jun 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Facebook has overtaken Microsoft's portfolio of sites to become the second most visited online...Facebook recorded its highest ever number of visitors last month at 26.8 million, after growing 0.6% from April.
Microsoft s MSN, WindowsLive and Bing sites had 26.2 million visitors, down 2.1% from April. Google still dwarfed Facebook and Microsoft, receiving 33.9m unique UK visitors in May, up 0 ...