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STEVE BALLMER’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH – CANNES LIONS 2009

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Video: Steve Ballmer, Media Person of a Year

Last night you covered Steve being recognised as Media Person of a Year during a International Advertising Festival here in Cannes.

Here’s his acceptance speech.

Promised footage of his convention is upon the way…….

Microsoft AdCenter June 25th 2009

LIVING UP TO THE PROMISE OF ONLINE ADVERTISING - STEVE BALLMER SEMINAR - CANNES LIONS 2009

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Microsoft Advertising has had a vast participation during a Cannes Festival this year with all representatives sporting a Microsoft Advertising code as well as aphorism upon their lanyards - you mental condition it you broach it - a code is additionally showcased upon a Palais - though unequivocally zero says Microsoft similar to CEO Steve Ballmer.

Here's video coverage of his convention "Living Up To The Promise Of Online Advertising" where he gives us his thoughts  about a economy, "buying a internet", embracing a brand new digital universe you live in, as well as of course……..Bing!

Microsoft AdCenter June 25th 2009

WE LOVE DAVID PLOUFFE - THE AUDACITY OF BRANDS - CANNES LIONS 2009

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David Plouffe is a bloggers dream!

When you’re sat in a darkened theatre, Tweeting, Twitpicking as well as perplexing to jot down what’s starting upon as well as constraint essence, we urge for noted as well as easy to sort quotes from speakers to enhance upon later.

So as debate physical education instructor for Barack Obama’s successful presidential bid, you'd design David to be great during delivering a message.

Below have been my records from a session.

I don’t consider we need to expand. Do I?

Notes:

The debate was a tall propagandize lab, a singular time in America.

Odds were really low. Narrow path. Fresh set of eyes. Not a dry fool around book.

Grass roots as well as record were tied together – retirees as well as students greatest voters.

Would not have happened but people articulate to people.

We indispensable to be in each space.

50% of people upon a debate had never finished anything similar to it before.

Did TV otherwise – thirty notation ad – really unsure – 2 min ad upon manage to buy – scapegoat a little strech to uncover Barack was solid as well as gave receptive to recommendation mercantile advice.

No song no graphics sent people to a website.

Talk to people similar to adults.

Nothing’s some-more absolute than authenticity!

Don't be a worker to a script.

There's zero some-more profitable than a tellurian being articulate to an additional tellurian being, it’s all about trust.

Videos have been only used up most some-more straightforwardly by people. Try as well as do video – without delay not by a media filter.

They devour as well as widespread it – tellurian beings articulate to tellurian beings.

What they certitude is which tellurian contact.

Executing is a tough part.

Digital tech during a heart, being in each space – genuine drivers were email as well as a web multiple of digital as well as weed roots.

There were concerns.

People design a energetic interchange.

Hope a single thing comes from a debate - some-more people from a outward will confirm to run for office!

Microsoft AdCenter June 25th 2009

CONGRATULATIONS STEVE! MEDIA PERSON OF THE YEAR – CANNES LIONS 2009

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has only perceived a Media Person of a Year fame during this years Cannes Lions during a fantastic awards celebration during a Palais Des Festivals.

We’ll have some-more from Steve’s appearance during a eventuality tomorrow as we move we highlights from his convention “Living Up To The Promise Of Online Advertising.”

Microsoft AdCenter June 24th 2009

TAKE A BREAK FROM BLOGGING AND GRAB SOME FREE MUSIC

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YT_275x200_green_ (2)Our Windows amicable media group has the cold module with ReverbNation which we kicked off progressing today.  You can get over 1,000 songs for positively free!  Check it out during http://www.myspace.com/windows

We goal we suffer the music!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

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BILL BUXTON ON ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM POTENTIAL - CANNES LIONS 2009 VIDEO

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Video: Bill Buxton

Just a image of Bill Buxton’s overwhelming debate upon a destiny of promotion during a Microsoft Advertising Business Forum in Cannes yesterday.

For some-more videos, blog posts as well as tweets, check out the Cannes Community Site!

Microsoft AdCenter June 24th 2009

MICROSOFT GAMES ADVERTISING WORKSHOP - CANNES 2009

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So you am not starting to hold my gamer tab or gamer measure - though if you looked during my household's series you'd fast see I'm what my organisation of friends call an Xbox widow.

What my associate widows don't know is which newly I've proposed personification Xbox - as well as I'm solemnly operative to climb up a domicile ladder.

Today I've lonesome a Microsoft Advertising Gaming Workshop in Cannes as well as you desired observant a far-reaching eyes as well as a beautiful sparks which proposed to fly during this session.  No longer a niche space targeted usually to younger males, in-game promotion has a far-reaching strech with an intent assembly who make use of Xbox, Xbox Live, MSN games, as well as Zune.

Here have been my pass takeaways from this session.gaming is a brand brand new heart of home entertainment with many games using upon HD TVs - so campaigns have been being displayed upon a clever visible device. In-game ads have been stretchable as well as strech out to an engaged assembly who similar to as well as wish a ads in-game with 68% of gamers observant ads done games some-more realistic, 63% observant ads looked cold in-games, as well as 55% observant in-game ads stood out in more aged to alternative sorts of advertising. 

And it's all about targeting, targeting, targeting - with geo, date, time, as well as gender targeting musts to rivet a right audience. 

The event additionally introduced a plea for a participants to rise a beautiful judgment for Stand up to Cancer, a brand brand new beginning innate out of a media as well as party attention to get ongoing donations for cancer research. Three teams supposed a plea as well as had 45 mins to rise their concept.

We've interviewed a winning teams so check out the coverage of this event entrance soon!

Thanks Jenny

Microsoft AdCenter June 24th 2009

ADVERTISING AGE – AKQA – TRIBAL DDB – SAATCHI’S AT CANNES LIONS 2009

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Billed as “The Jet (Lag) Set: Maintaining Digital Creative Equilibrium Around The World”, Matt Creamer, Senior Editor during Advertising Age,has only led a undoubted row of creativati in a Debussy Theatre here in Cannes.

If there’s a single direction starting upon down here upon Le Croisette  it’s which everyone is articulate about digital. As Marc Bresseel pronounced upon Monday 8 years ago, people wondered what Microsoft was you do in Cannes. This wasn’t a place for program as well as servers, though a place for beautiful suspicion as well as application.

Today, thankfully things have altered dramatically as well as Tom Eslinger, Worldwide Digital Creative Director during Saatchi & Saatchi, Dirk Eschenbacher, Creative Director APC during Tribal DDB as well as Rei Inamoto, Global Creative Director of AKQA gave a small satirical as well as suspicion inspiring answers to Matt’s probing.

Asked about trends in a beautiful community, Rei pronounced which yes, advertisers have been embracing digital since of it’s measurability as well as accountability, though additionally which companies have been observant online as a good proceed to set up brands.

On a subject of cross-border campaigns, a row concluded which you can’t simply “copy as well as paste” a debate proceed from contend Japan to Germany since there have been outrageous informative differences. Tailoring a debate as well as creation it locally applicable is super-important. Rei was penetrating to indicate out however which digital does yield a good proceed for people to bond opposite boundaries. If you share a same passion, it’s some-more easy than ever prior to to share those passions as well as emanate connections.

Asked about viral marketing, a row squirmed a small a a label. Firstly it’s an noun as well as not a noun (?) as well as Rei beaten a unequivocally good indicate home by saying, “Going viral should not be a finish goal. It should be a effect of a good idea!”

When asked what to be heedful of, you listened a story of a seventeen year aged who’s been offered chairs to businesses online with no promotion whatsoever. He’s built up a $50m sovereignty though spending a penny upon offered so creatives have to be ready to reinvent themselves infrequently to emanate a need.

Dirk from DDB pronounced which when they’re employing it has to be “digital, digital, digital” bent as well as knowledge which demeanour for. Rei felt immature bent was not unequivocally a emanate though it was a midst to comparison government in company’s which could be gloomy expansion by fright of these youngsters entrance in as well as not being normal about digital. Told us thirty to 40 year olds to be wakeful as well as welcome brand new talent.

Finally Tom from Saatchi’s gay a throng by observant they’re hiring, though which it’s not travel in a play ground as they have folks write 100 day plans!

It was a good session. It was a initial time I’d listened these guys verbalise as well as it sent all a right signals which digital is as resolutely ensconced during this legal holiday as a handprints outward a Palais!

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Microsoft AdCenter June 24th 2009

COUNTRY, STATE/PROVINCE, METRO AREA AND CITY CODES FOR MICROSOFT ADCENTER API V6

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Hi All,

The codes which Microsoft adCenter API Version 6 uses for targeting ad groups or campaigns to specific countries/regions have been documented during Country Codes.

If we wish to see a codes for states/provinces inside of a country, click a specific nation inside of a Country Codes topic. For example, United States.

Within a nation topic, we can click a states/provinces to establish a metro area codes as well as city codes. For example, inside of a California (United States) topic, you'll see metro area codes for Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Diego (and alternative metro areas), as well as you'll additionally see a cities as well as city codes inside of those metro areas.

For some-more report about targeting by country, state/province, metro area as well as city, as well as additionally by commercial operation as well as geographical location, see Location Targeting.

adCenter API V5 upheld nation as well as metro area targeting (but not state/province as well as city targeting). Note which V5 used numeric values for nation as well as metro areas codes, whilst V6 uses content fibre codes for a countries, states/provinces, metro areas, as well as cities.

If we would similar to a tender XML used for a country, state/province, metro area as well as city codes, we can download it from http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.SiteFiles/APIDOC/locationsXML.zip. Note a XML contains a V6 codes, as well as additionally a V5 metro area numeric codes. For example, in a following dash taken from a tender XML, a Code value "Calgary, AB CA" is a Version 6 metro area formula for Calgary, whilst the MetroAreaId value "148315336687484928" is a Version 5 metro area formula for Calgary. The numeric MetroAreaId values do not request to V6. 

    <MetroArea Name="Calgary" Code="Calgary, AB CA" MetroAreaId="148315336687484928">

Thank you.

Walter Poupore
Microsoft

Microsoft AdCenter June 23rd 2009

YOU DREAM IT. WE DELIVER IT. - MICROSOFT ADVERTISING BUSINESS FORUM - CANNES 2009

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Bonjour from Cannes!

Today we hosted a commercial operation forum for a Microsoft delegates. This was a event to lift together a delegates, share a vision, as well as uncover off a ultimate integrated promotion technology.

We'll be posting a commercial operation forum video a small after so we can see a highlights - though until that's live we longed for to yield a little of thing which had some-more of which "je ne sais quoi" if we will.

Here have been my tip highlights from a conference.

To be honest it is a bit tough to choose, though given 5 is Coco Chanel's propitious number as well as given Chanel has left digital - I'm using with a tip 5 highlights.

1. Listening to a voices of a customers thru dual beautiful videos. Love these dual sketches - Sketch 1 & Sketch 2 from a business which showcase what they have discovered, faced, as well as pushed a boundary upon this year with digital media as well as marketing.

2. East vs West discussion as well as showcase in between creatives Naoki Ito as well as Tony Högqvist. Congrats to Ito who is picking up multiform awards during a legal holiday this year as well as who was during a back of a origination of this Love Distance debate which 1M people in Japan tracked over 4 weeks prior to divulgence their brand. Högqvist showcased a work he grown with H&M upon their open conform line where they delivered an online unconstrained catwalk so a transformation of a garments is highlighted.

3. Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher from Microsoft captured a assembly vouchsafing us know which a destiny is already here as well as which if we wish to know a destiny which we only need to demeanour during what is underneath growth since a things which have been starting to stroke a lives in a subsequent 10 years is essentially already invented.

4. The current state of a attention tangible by CVP of Advertising as well as Publishing during MSFT, Scott Howe. We've all had moments where we have been wowed by jot down as well as had moments where we have been impiety jot down - adore it or hatred it a a single thing we face every day in digital selling is a ongoing evolution. Howe likened a knowledge currently to a days prior to Russian chemist Mendeleyev combined a duration list of elements. Without a have up of a list scientists around a universe couldn't verbalise a same "language" as well as with it there was an blast of creativity as well as advancement. Microsoft is committed to formulating this "table" if we will as well as has been operative upon assertive advances over a final twelve months to broach a right set of collection to advertisers.

5. The success of a Chanel as well as Deadliest Catch campaigns. Donna Murphy from Discovery pronounced which a campaign for Deadliest Catch was "dead on," as well as by her partnership with Microsoft Discovery was means to constraint a perspective of a uncover online as well as tilt in jot down numbers for their 5th season's premier.

There were so most good quotes as well as moments in a forum - as well most to embody in this post - so we'll follow up with a highlights in video so we can perspective them when we have a minute.

But to finish upon an additional integrated debate which was unequivocally cold - we were shown a explanation of judgment Harry Potter as well as a Half Blood Prince campaign, which if we have a single takeaway from this debate it's emanate once, as well as afterwards let your debate run opposite mixed inclination - Xbox, mobile, Personal Computer as well as web - which unequivocally is pristine digital magic.

This Harry Potter judgment showcased a energy of Silverlight upon Xbox LIVE. We voiced during this event which we will move IAB-recognized abounding media technologies together with Silverlight to Xbox LIVE, a world’s largest interactive network upon TV. So what just does this mean….this will assistance agencies as well as advertisers create, launch, magnitude as well as fast reply to campaigns by absolute controls as well as integrated tools.   From instream video ads, rich, discoverable micros-sites, as well as animations, Silverlight brings promotion ideas to hold up as well as helps have campaigns can be some-more nimble, some-more absolute as well as some-more effective.  Finally we can emanate once, demonstrate everywhere.

Cheers,
Jenny

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Microsoft AdCenter June 23rd 2009