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. ...
28 Sep 2007
Microsoft is reportedly in discussions about acquiring a 5 per cent stake in the social networking...Facebook, which was set up three years ago by the Harvard graduate Mark
Zuckerberg, could now become the centre of a global bidding war between
Microsoft and Google, which has also been linked with acquiring a stake
in the site. According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft
has approached ...
08 Jun 2007
Microsoft is the UK's most prolific online advertiser, according to new figures from Nielsen
25 May 2007
Microsoft has paid $6 billion in cash for the online advertising network aQuantive, representing
11 May 2007
Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo! about a possible takeover. Talks are thought to be fuelled
30 Mar 2007
Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions has partnered with the social networking site Piczo
09 Mar 2007
Microsoft expects to switch the majority of its $440 million-plus ad budget into digital channels...Mich Matthews, the senior vice-president at Microsoft's central
marketing group, told an American Association of Advertising Agencies
conference: "We're pretty confident that by 2010 the majority of our
media mix will shift to digital." Microsoft spent $447 million in measured media last year,
according ...
12 Jan 2007
Microsoft has announced that Mitch Davis, the founder of its in-game ad subsidiary, Massive, Inc