17 Dec 2002
1. MICROSOFT'S XBOX...To compete seriously against the mighty PS2, the Xbox had to deliver. Microsoft's answer was simple: be bigger and better. First, launch the most powerful console on the planet, which promises a revolution in gaming innovation. Then throw in the whale-sized carrot of gaming nirvana with the ability ...
29 Nov 2002
| by ALASDAIR REID
Microsoft is the latest client to ask media owners to bid against each other on a winner...as quaintly unique as we've come to believe. Last week, Microsoft announced that it had given all national ...
series of special supplements.
Nick McGrath, Microsoft's group marketing manager, says it had decided ...
29 Nov 2002
EHS Brann is on alert following the news that Microsoft is reviewing its direct marketing account
22 Nov 2002
for Microsoft's launch of its "Amazing PC" consumer marketing concept. Three Microsoft-sponsored 16-page tabloid
04 Oct 2002
-European launch of Microsoft's Xbox console.
26 Jul 2002
| by MATTHEW COWEN
AKQA has developed a series of personalised banner ads for
Microsoft, which aim to demonstrate
03 May 2002
The digital agency AKQA has created a series of interactive online
Flash banner ads for Microsoft...and employees together through Microsoft
.NET software. Referencing the current one degree of separation TV ads ...
and IT sites including FT.com and
Bloomberg.co.uk. Steve White, the group marketing manager of Microsoft UK ...
campaign. Ajaz Ahmed, the chairman of AKQA, said: This is an innovative campaign
for Microsoft. We know ...
27 Mar 2002
| by Matthew Cowen,
on PlayStation2 puts Eidos in the front line of the growing battle for share between Sony and Microsoft's Xbox ...
22 Mar 2002
Microsoft's Xbox commercial is as ambitious a commercial as I've
seen for a while.
22 Mar 2002
| by MATTHEW COWEN, matthew.cowen@haynet.com
On the surface of it, Microsoft's long-awaited foray into the games
console market doesn't seem like much of a hard luck case. Not only does
Xbox have the resources of Gates and company behind it ...
queuing around the block and plenty of tabloid
coverage. However, Microsoft's marketing brains ...