Microsoft Advertising is now powered by "People Powered Stories"
Microsoft announced a major improvement in their online advertising solution. Through the new campaign called People Powered Stories, Microsoft is bringing a sea change to their advertising solution that connect brands and consumers with real reviews from real people. Learn more about People Powered Stories program from Microsoft.
Microsoft and BazzarVoice have teamed up to deliver customer centric, social oriented online advertising and announced a new solution called "People Powered Stories". It is a sea change for Microsoft advertising, which has been competing with Google AdWords to offer advertising solutions to enterprise customers.What is People Powered Stories and how they fit in to Microsoft Advertising?
With the People Powered Stories advertising program, advertisers can take real world stories from consumers and integrate in to advertisements. It brings authenticity to Ads and better engage advertisers and consumers.
Microsoft has teamed up with BazzarVoice, an industry leader in social commerce. Through this partnership, advertisers can integrate real user stories and reviews in to advertising, along with content from other sources including blogs, comments, discussion threads, tweets, reviews, ratings, videos etc. Brands can create advertisements that integrate comments and feedback of existing customers. Research shows that feedback and reviews of existing customers have strong influence on selling a product. By including reviews from existing users of a product, companies can better market their products. BazzarVoice is a market leader in gathering user inputs from various sources including social media.
In short, the People Powered Stories program is the integrated advertising solution from Microsoft BazzarVoice partnership to deliver advertisements integrated with comments and reviews from real people.
Checkout the video on People Powered Stories and Microsoft Advertising.Why People Powered Stories?
Many people who have an online presence express their opinion in social networks and forums on various things they purchased. Voice from customers have a significant impact on selling products and helps brands and sellers understand how their products are perceived by the consumers.
People go to social networks to get advice from friends on personal matters and also to get expert opinion on various matters including shopping. When it comes to buying products or shopping online, they do go to reviews and ratings at various authentic sources as well, in addition to their social network. Consumers depend on the real opinion of real people who already bought the products and experienced it.
The "People Powered Stories" is based on this influence of social media in making decisions. This new program helps advertisers integrate user reviews in to advertisements.
Jennifer Creegan, General Manager of display advertising experiences at Microsoft spoke about how the "People Powered Stories" from Microsoft Advertising would help clients deliver advertisements with real stories from people and connect brands with consumers. Her team is responsible for all display advertisements Microsoft advertising sales people sell all over the world.
With the new advertising system integrated with People Powered Stories, Microsoft is enabling advertisers to take advantage of people reviews and rating to sell their products.
Microsoft Advertising Solutions
Microsoft has been offering advertising solutions to large companies and enterprises through their Ad Center. Ad Center allows companies to advertise their products in Yahoo and Bing search. Ad Center competes with Google AdWords and various other online advertising solutions and has been helping customers advertise their products in Bing Search and Yahoo search.
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