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JUN 18

Microsoft Acquires TV-Targeting Tech Firm

Navic Networks Available on 35 Million Set-Top Boxes

Advertising Age, June 18, 2008 — The Microsoft-Google war has moved from the web to the TV. Microsoft today announced it will buy Navic Networks, an addressable advertising technology provider that enables marketers to dynamically target and measure audiences based on patented technology available in 35 million set-top boxes nationwide.

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FEB 8

Can Steve Ballmer Learn To Yodel?

By Karen Woon, February 8, 2008 — Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yodel? It’s a fair question to ask as the software giant’s $44.6-billion play for Yahoo, the No. 2 search engine on the Internet, is rejected — for now.

Microsoft’s interest is easily understood. The company wants to move beyond software and into enhanced online services at a time when Yahoo! is struggling against the larger, richer Google for traffic and advertising revenues. Microsoft would bring enormous financial muscle in the battle for eyeballs and ads.

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NOV 2007

Make a Case for Your Brand

Study Shows Brand Strength Does Have an Impact on Profitability and Risk

Advertising Age, November 26, 2007 — Have you ever needed to make a case for the brand to the CFO?

If you are like most marketing managers, you base your argument on research demonstrating that loyalty and evangelism can accrue from investments to build brand equity. Perhaps you provide your own consumer-based evidence of the power of branding, using psychological concepts such as perceived value, brand preference or brand awareness and recall.

Unfortunately, these are not ideas that persuade a CFO.

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NOV 2007

Microsoft and GE: not old & in the way

The annual Breakaway Brands survey of brand momentum has these two lumbering giants in the top ten

FORTUNE, November 12, 2007 — Big blue-chip companies like General Electric and Microsoft do many things well, but showing up on lists of the hottest brands is typically not one of them. Yet these two lumbering giants both made their way onto brand consultancy Landor Associates' annual Breakaway Brands ranking - a comprehensive survey that measures consumer sizzle over a three-year period

Category: Brand Strategy
Tags: GE, Microsoft
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OCT 2007

Microsoft Bets on Facebook and Web Ad Boom

Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2007 — Microsoft Corp.'s $240 million investment in Facebook Inc. — a three-year-old company with more promise than profit — represents a huge bet that the online advertising boom will continue and the popular social networking site will be among the biggest beneficiaries.

The software giant said yesterday that it will buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, beating out Google Inc. after intense lobbying. The deal places a $15 billion valuation on the closely held Palo Alto, Calif., start-up. Facebook, which runs a site where people set up personal Web pages, expects to break even this year, on a cash-flow basis, with revenue of $150 million, according to people familiar with the company.

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SEP 2007

How To Make A Microserf Smile

While Google was turning heads with its employee perks, an unlikely manager took on morale in Redmond

BusinessWeek, September 10, 2007 — Steven A. Ballmer had an epic morale problem on his hands. Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT ) stock had been drifting sideways for years, and Google envy was rampant on the Redmond (Wash.) campus. The chronically delayed Windows Vista was irking the Microserfs and blackening their outlook. So was the perception that their company was flabby, middle-aged, and unhip

Category: Brand Strategy
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AUG 2007

Are Search Ads a Waste of Money?

Adweek, August 20, 2007 — New research by Microsoft suggests a big chunk of search ad spending is wasted because advertisers pay top dollar for high ad placements clicked by consumers who are en route to their sites anyway. Listings tied to such "branded" keywords, typically a company's name or products, eat up about half of search budgets, Atlas estimates.

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MAY 2007

Microsoft Storms Madison Avenue

Agency World Has One More Thing to Worry About as Software Giant Snaps Up Digital Shop

Advertising Age, May 21, 2007 — Madison Avenue, make room for Microsoft.

Last week's $6 billion agreement to buy aQuantive is not just a bid to catch up with Google and Yahoo in ad sales. It also gives Redmond something it hasn't had before: Its very own ad agency.

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MAR 2007

Of blogs, flogs and authenticity

By Michael Dunn, March 20, 2007 — There’s a huge disconnect that only seems to be growing when it comes to social media networks and businesses’ desire to tap into its power.

Microsoft gets outed for offering to pay a blogger to change technical articles on Wikipedia. Some 2.8 million You Tubers screen “Bridezilla” frantically away at her less-than-perfect hair before the truth comes out: It’s an “initiative” by Sunsilk Haircare Brands, and everyone should have known it was nothing more than a dramatization. Sony gets... continue reading

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MAR 2007

Microsoft to Move Bulk of Ad Dollars to Digital Channels

Tells 4A's That Media Mix Will Change By 2010

Advertising Age, March 2, 2007 — It may be dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into an old-school TV campaign for its latest operating system, but Microsoft expects it will move the majority of its ad budget into digital channels within three years.

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