20 Dec 2007
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Viacom has unveiled a deal that will allow Microsoft to sell display advertising across...Microsoft replace the current seller of Viacom s ads, DoubleClick, which Google is attempting to buy. Google ...
. The deal will see Microsoft serve graphical and video ads across Viacom s several hundred US websites. Viacom will also license its content for use on Microsoft products such as MSN and the Xbox 360. ...
20 Dec 2007
| by Alex Donohue
NEW YORK - Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! are to pay out a total of $31.5m (£15.7m) in fines...stopped hosting such ads, which are banned under US law, on their Stateside operations. Microsoft ...
and prosecution. Google will also pay out $3m to the US authorities. In a statement, Microsoft said it had ceased ...
m ad and content distribution deal with Microsoft that ends the media group s ties with DoubleClick ...
19 Dec 2007
| by Andrew McCormick
to run on Microsoft's Xbox Live platform....month, as part of a six-figure deal between Microsoft and Twentieth Century Fox. The other part of the campaign will see Microsoft run a promotion for a future Twentieth Century Fox film. Xbox gamers will be presented with video trailers, film highlights, a quiz and competitions relating to the film. Microsoft ...
12 Dec 2007
| by Fiona Ramsay
LONDON - Microsoft has bought Multimap for an undisclosed amount, adding the online service to its...Microsoft said Multimap will be run as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft as part of the Virtual Earth and Search teams in the online services group. Microsoft already offers 3D maps, birds eye ...
and street-level precision in the UK. Sharon Baylay, general manager of Microsoft s online services group ...
11 Dec 2007
| by Alex Donohue
LONDON - Microsoft is to partner with CNBC, the global financial TV news service, to offer display...Under the deal terms, Microsoft will provide CNBC.com with strategic ad placements for brands ...
s 2.6m unique monthly users. Microsoft said the technology, which will be introduced with contextual ...
on user behaviour. The deal makes CNBC.com the latest syndicated ad partner to work with Microsoft ...
05 Dec 2007
Warner Home Video has signed an agreement with Microsoft to promote the release of Harry Potter
23 Nov 2007
Microsoft has begun a pitch for a $300 million consumer creative account. McCann Erickson..."We are soliciting input from various agencies, including McCann
Erickson, for a new assignment," a Microsoft spokesman said. Media for
this new task will be handled by Universal McCann, the spokesman said. ...
22 Nov 2007
| by Matt Cartmell
As PRWeek enters the glass Death Star that is Microsoft London’s Victoria office and ascends...and Devices Division of Microsoft EMEA for eight years. I was the third person to join the division, he says ...
passionate about this new role and talks at great length about what Microsoft is doing with rating bands ...
.4 million in sales by the third quarter of this year. In the run up to Christmas, Microsoft will focus ...
19 Nov 2007
| by Staff
NEW YORK - Microsoft has briefed four agencies to pitch for a creative assignment estimated...Microsoft s lead agency, McCann Erickson in San Francisco, will be pitching along with WPP Group ...
-related creative assignment, and a decision is expected in January. A Microsoft spokesman said: We are soliciting ...
duties for the assignment would be handled by Interpublic Group s Universal McCann, Microsoft s lead ...
13 Nov 2007
| by Media Week
in a company whose global ad
revenue is only about £50m is too risky. It seems unlikely Microsoft will expect Facebook to continue growing at
its current rate. More likely, the acquisition is about Microsoft ...
Will Phipps Media planning and strategy director, Profero Microsoft needs Facebook to keep growing from its ...