Clearing the Way to Your Door The weeks ahead of Christmas and Boxing Day in the UK are one of the busiest, and most critical time of the year for online retailers. This is the month during which annual turnovers are made, or missed. At the same time, thousands of stressed Christmas shoppers...

‘Social media and the socialization of the internet will at some point be just as important as the invention of the internet itself.’ On Thursday the 10 th of February industry experts and an interested audience got together in Microsoft’s Victoria offices to talk about the future...

A volcano eruption, ash clouds driving millions of air travellers crazy, national bankruptcy… It is an euphemism to say that Iceland, as a country, has been hardly spared in the last couple years. Yet, 2011 could be the year of redemption as the entire country has mobilised to put Iceland back...

Spring is here, the sun is out (for a while at least) and summer is fast approaching. The Royal Wedding is just around the corner and thousands are counting down the days to the extra bank holiday. Whilst the majority of the UK enjoys staying in the country, many will enjoy taking the opportunity to...

The following has been cross-posted from the adCenter Blog. Today at Social-Loco , I had the opportunity to share Bing’s thinking around local search advertising – specifically around how consumers are embracing locally targeted content on the PC and mobile, and because of that shift,...

Welcome to the 21st video in our Ad Vision series of interviews leading up to Cannes Lions 2011! We kick off our final 10 interviews with industry expert Kelly Bennett, VP of Interactive Marketing at Warner Brothers. We ask Kelly what he considers most exciting in our digital future, and the opprtunities...

Are you ready to become a Microsoft Advertising Accredited Professional ? Don’t want to pay the fee? If you answered “yes” to both of these questions, you’ve come to the right place! Becoming a Microsoft Advertising Accredited Professional will give you the tools and resources...

Earlier today, we formally announced a display advertising partnership agreement with Yahoo! and AOL. This agreement was the subject of much rumor and speculation over the last month and a half, but it wasn’t until just this week that we actually formalized the partnership. I’d like...

In September at the BUILD Conference in Anaheim, CA, Microsoft shared the Windows 8 developer preview with thousands of eager developers. Then yesterday , in San Francisco, Microsoft outlined a variety of monetization options for developers including details for the Windows Store as well as confirming...

Today, Microsoft Advertising launches its new adCenter Training Hub, where users will be able to move at their own pace with training segments that will help them increase their Microsoft adCenter knowledge. Below we have listed a few of the great benefits of this new training tool to help you get started...