The Future of Microsoft Ads: 2021 and Beyond

Multimedia Ads

The latest Microsoft Advertising product is the new responsive paid search ad type called Microsoft Multimedia ads. These ads combine your images, headlines, and body copies using AI to create relevant and attention-grabbing ads. Microsoft Multimedia Ads are very similar to Google's Responsive Search Ads, where you can create multiple headlines and descriptions, the ad network will automatically select the best combination.

Microsoft Multimedia ads take the concept of responsive search advertising a step further by allowing advertisers to add rich visual assets to their ads. Advertisers and Microsoft store education enterprise developers can include images in four aspect ratios: 1.91:1, 1:1. 1:2, and 4:1.

Only one multimedia ad can display on Bing search results at a time. This exclusivity is likely to attract a lot of advertisers and enable more aggressive bidding for ad placement.

Dynamic Remarketing Expanding

Microsoft products have now expanded the scope of vertical feeds Dynamic Remarketing, allowing more advertisers to reach customers who are ready to buy. Earlier, Dynamic Remarketing ads only supported retail, hotels, and vacation rental businesses. Now, Microsoft has expanded the support for travel (tours and activities), entertainment (events), e-commerce, and automotive (listings).

Dynamic remarketing works similarly to Google Retargeting. When a user visits your website and interacts with a product but doesn't complete the purchase, ads with the same user ID will be displayed to them.

Tours and Activity Ads

As the impact of the pandemic continues to subside, travellers are getting out of their homes. However, the travelling behaviour has changed, with travellers being more conscious and prioritising sustainable travel.

Microsoft has introduced a new ad type – Tours and Activities Ads – that allows travel businesses to reach these conscious travellers. These ads are feed-based and intent-driven, and they are triggered when a user searches for a particular type of activity in a certain location. Advertisers can also leverage engaging premium placements to drive more engagement.

Facebook Ads Import

Microsoft allows advertisers to seamlessly import their audience campaigns from the Facebook Audience Network to the Microsoft Audience Network. This enables advertisers to save time and maximise ROI by importing audiences instead of creating new audiences. You can use Facebook Ads Import as a standalone tool or along with your Google Import strategy. Currently, Facebook Ads Import is available to every advertiser and education enterprise developer company in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Australia, and the UK.

Dynamic Ads with Static Headlines

If you're looking for a holistic advertising strategy to achieve broader query coverage, you should be using Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs). DSAs help you increase your search marketing consciousness and connect with more customers interested in your products and services.

Leverage Microsoft's Tools, Insights, Industry Trends, and Audience Network to Create More Effective Event and Seasonal Advertising

Microsoft Advertising offers a comprehensive range of ad tools that enable advertisers to deploy the right advertising strategies, improve ad performance, and drive more leads, conversions, and business growth.

Some popular tools offered by Microsoft Advertising are:

• Ad Editor

• Keyword Planner

• Microsoft Advertising App

• Automated Bidding

• Ad Preview Tool

• Campaign Experiments

• Microsoft Advertising Scripts

• Recommendations Tab

• Competition Tab

Additionally, Microsoft's Audience Network makes it easier to reach a unique audience in a brand-safe native manner. It enables you to reach your audience in IAS-certified brand-safe sites and drive personalised engagements to achieve your solutions advertising goals.

All these tools and features combined make Microsoft Advertising a future-centric advertising platform for every advertiser and developer. This is especially true for a new enterprise developer company Microsoft who are looking for an effortless way to leverage advertising to accelerate business growth.

Marketing with Purpose: A Course for More Successful Brand Development

Microsoft has introduced the Marketing with Purpose course that enables brands to accelerate brand development and business growth in an easy, effortless, and authentic way. The course covers new Microsoft store education, data-driven actions, and marketing tactics one should implement to drive sustainable business growth and reach more customers.

The course helps advertisers:

• Understand how to include Marketing with Purpose in their advertising strategy

• Build in-depth, meaningful customer relationships that support business growth

• Uncover untapped advertising opportunities to reach your targeted audience in innovative ways

• Leverage extensive marketing insights to drive your marketing efforts in the right direction

• Earn a Marketing with Purpose badge and showcase your expertise and knowledge

Get Better Control Over Your Marketing

A significant benefit of using Microsoft Ads is that they offer granular control over your ad campaigns. For starters, you can assign different campaigns to different time zones and develop sophisticated ad scheduling strategies.

Microsoft Ads provide more control and transparency over search partner targeting. You can target particular search partners, like Bing and Yahoo, or even just search partners at the ad group level.

Lastly, Microsoft Ads allow you to control search demographics. You can control which age and gender demographics see your ads.