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Microsoft Audience Ads

Increase the reach of your advertising campaigns. Whether you’re building your brand or driving purchases, Microsoft Audience Ads are an effective, scalable and rapidly growing solution.

Microsoft Audience Ads are served across the Microsoft Audience Network which is powered by Microsoft audience intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI). Ad placements across premium sites like MSN, Outlook.com and Microsoft Edge blend naturally into your consumers' experiences. That way, you can put the right ad message in front of your customers at the right time in their decision-making process.

Broaden your reach to connect with the right customers.

Why use Microsoft Audience Ads?

  • More volume
    Boost impressions and traffic through brand-safe, native content placements.

  • More clicks
    By extending your Microsoft Advertising search campaigns to native, you can increase clicks from your target audience.

  • Increase conversions
    Your ads can reach a much larger audience, increasing your chances for conversions.

  • Massive reach you can trust with premium, brand-safe placements
    Reach millions of people on MSN, Outlook.com, and Microsoft Edge.

  • Boosted performance, powered by artificial intelligence
    AI and machine learning help guide ad selection and relevancy matching, along with pricing, click and conversion prediction to help deliver the best marketing ROI.

  • Performance tracking is easy
    Use the same Microsoft Advertising tools, reports and analytics to monitor your campaign performance.

Microsoft Audience Ads supported by the Microsoft Audience Network

Use responsive ads on your audience campaigns, separate from your search campaign. The Microsoft Audience Network can support two responsive ad formats: image-based ads and feed-based ads. Responsive ads automatically adjust to accommodate the sizes and shapes of native ad formats.

Image-based ads

Use image-based ads to engage your customers with eye-catching visuals. Images are compatible across different platforms, publishers and placements, allowing you to use existing assets from your campaigns on the Google Display Network and Facebook.

Feed-based ads

With feed-based ads, you can tap into your existing feeds to promote the same products to your customers in a native format. Using Dynamic Remarketing, you can remarket to customers based on the specific products they viewed or added to their shopping trolley.

Take a look at examples of Microsoft Audience Ads

Thumbnail screenshot of a Microsoft Audience Ad displayed within content on MSN.
Thumbnail screenshot of a Microsoft Audience Ad displayed within content on Outlook.
Thumbnail screenshot of a Microsoft Audience Ad displayed within content on Microsoft Edge.
 

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Campaign management options

You have two ways to run Microsoft Audience Ads.

Extend your search campaign

Your existing search campaign is extended to include Microsoft Audience Ads on the Microsoft Audience Network. Continue using a single budget to conveniently manage all campaigns and increase clicks from target audiences.

Create an audience campaign

Manage your audience campaign with a dedicated budget and optimised performance metrics. The audience campaign’s budget is separate from your search campaigns.

You can target the Microsoft Audience Network in the following countries: U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.

 

Get started with Microsoft Audience Ads

Microsoft Audience Ads are image-centric. You can take full advantage of these premium placements by quickly and easily managing images via Image Extensions.

Create Microsoft Audience Ads