Windows Phone update coming: can Microsoft leverage the 0.6%?

On the heels of news that Microsoft, Nokia, and the other hardware partners are ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, promotion, and payola, Windows Phone is getting ready to roll ... Read more »

Microsoft “It’s great to be a family” spots debut

Microsoft has just posted a couple of its new “It’s great to be a family” ads on YouTube.  The work of ad agency Cripin, Porter + Bogusky, the ads play on the family theme, ... Read more »

New Xbox TV partners to run Kinect enabled ads

Yesterday Microsoft unveiled an impressive lineup of new content coming to Xbox Live: networks like SyFy, MSNBC, the Today Show, TMZ, and more.  What yesterday’s announcement didn’t say is that along with all this ... Read more »

Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft

Remember back in February, when Brandon Foy’s Windows Phone ad concept video went viral?  For a quick refresher, here’s the video: We liked it a lot, and so did some folks at Windows Phone, ... Read more »

Bing testing inline ads in organic search results

A post on the Rimm-Kaufman Group (RKG) blog spotted some new, and perhaps controversial, ad placements on Bing organic search results: the listing of paid ads inline along with organic results, demarked only by ... Read more »

New Bing-Facebook ads debut on Bing’s Facebook page

Today saw the “premiere” two new Bing ads, posted on Bing’s Facebook page.  The ads, of course, celebrate Bing’s new relationship with Facebook “Likes”, which itself debuted earlier this week.  The first one has ... Read more »

Google launches new AdMob SDK–for Windows Phone

In what may be considered a good sign for the health of the Windows Phone ecosystem, Google has given the new OS a bit of a thumbs up today with the release of a ... Read more »

More user created Windows Phone ads (with puppies!)

Last week we showed you a user created Windows Phone ad from digital artist Brandon Foy featuring a fast paced montage of Windows Phone goodness, and receiving some 90,000 YouTube views.  Now a couple ... Read more »

Miss Australia Erin McNaught featured in Windows Live ads

Our friend Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com just posted a series of Australian advertisements for Windows 7 and Windows Live – featuring the winner of Miss Australia 2006 Erin McNaught. Check out the videos below ... Read more »

Bing partners with DealMap to bring Groupon, LivingSocial, more deals to Bing and m.bing.com

Bing is announcing today a partnership with Dealmap to bring offers from the leading online coupon providers (Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com to name a few) directly into Bing via desktop search or m.bing.com via HTML5 ... Read more »